MIRAGE

Release Status

Current: Version 1.0 is being prepared. This will be an open source release, with strong emphasis on extensibility. Also being worked on are XML based data and data structure formats, bug fixes, and efficiency improvements.

Aug 25, 2003: Version 0.3 is released at the public distribution site.
Version 0.3 includes support for external modules. An example is done in collaboration with JHU. This collaboration adds a wrapper for accessing data in the Virtual Observatory, and a sophisticated image display module that can handle many image formats. Details of the collaboration can be found at http://skyservice.pha.jhu.edu/develop/vo/mirage. This is a proof-of-concept trial for Mirage's capability of working with user-supplied display code and custom database access. Some description is given in the Release notes . We will publish the details of interface in the next release.

May 20, 2003: The Version 0.2 distribution is now complete.

May 19, 2003: It has come to our attention that some distributions of Version 0.2 (Windows edition, i.e., mirage0.2.zip) have the demo data set omitted. If the "data" directory in your distribution is empty, please download the contents here (data.zip).

April 22, 2003: Version 0.2 is posted to the public distribution site.
Version 0.2 mostly adds support for http based data retrieval We have the Sloan and DLS servers set up by default, but any other servers can be made using the same conventions. There are also more scriptable commands, and column addition utilities. Please see the Release notes for details.

Dec 10, 2002: Version 0.1 made available to the public at an open distribution site.

Aug 8, 2002: Version 0.1 released to the public for beta test.

Jan 18, 2002: Version 0.0 released internally.