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eclipse Newsletter 3.2© European Southern Observatory
And yet another eclipse release!
For this one, not much has changed, except for the jitter command which has received a great deal of attention over the past weeks. Many people have been reporting about object mis-identifications or no detections, and it looks like the situation has been improving every day or so over the past weeks. Many thanks to Roland, Andreas, Paolo, Dave, Chris, Nicolaj, Nancy and certainly many other people (hard to mention everyone!) for their help with this release. It looks like now this jitter command has become a real factory for number-crunching, it is impressive!
The release 3.2 will be the one which gets tested in real-time on ISAAC data in Paranal (VLT-UT1). I expect that we will find bugs and have many new ideas, in particular to support properly jitter+offset. This means that shortly after, there should be a short life-cycle with new releases coming up about twice a month to keep up with requirements from the ISAAC instrument people. Until April 1st, 1999, it is very likely that eclipse will need to support more and more functionalities. Keep updated!
N. Devillard
Thu Nov 19 14:29:27 MET 1998