ASINH Colour stretch.

The new SDSS images have a new colour stretch which produces very pleasing images. Get the FITS2JPEG here. This package contains server demonstration fits files form SDSS. TO make it go to src and type "make all" .

Adding WCS info to JPEG images.

Tools such as rdjpgcom allow one to read comments from JPEG files. The tool wrjpgcom allows one to write comments to a JPEG file. We have added WCS info to the SDSS JPEG images provided by SkyServer and the ImgCutOut Service.

Technicalities

The FITS keywords have been added in the comment block using imagemagick at the time the Jpegs are created from the FITS files.

To get at this info use xv (under windows) or

>rdjpgcom image.jpg