Specview download

To download version 2.14.2 from scatch, use one of the links below. You may need to click on the links below with the SHIFT key held down to get your browser to load the file.

Retrieve: TAR file for Unix/Linux/Mac (13 Mb)

Retrieve: Self extracting ZIP file for Windows (15 Mb)

After downloading the file, remember to read the installation instructions!

Mac OS X with Java 1.5: after installing from the Unix distribution tar file above, get the specview.jar file from here:

Retrieve: Specview JAR file for Mac OS X with Java 1.5(3.1 Mb)

and copy it in place of the existing one in your installation.

Older versions: can be found here.

If you are a developer interested in Specview's inner workings, you can download the source code from the Source Forge CVS repository. See here how to do it.

Line identifications:

If you expect to use the line identification tool extensively, it is recommended that you download the file below and drop it into the same directory where the other Specview files are.

Retrieve: specview_lines.jar (750 Kb)

Specview works without installation of this file, but in that case it retrieves the line identification data from remote servers over the network. Having the line lists locally installed expedites their loading.

Standards library:

If you expect to use the standards library extensively, it is recommended that you download the file below and drop it into the same directory where the other Specview files are.

Retrieve: specview_standards.jar (6.1 Mb)

Specview works without installation of this file, but in that case it retrieves the data from the Space Telescope Science Institute web site. Having the standard spectrograms locally installed expedites their loading.

Kurucz library:

In order to use the Kurucz library, the file below must be downloaded and dropped into the same directory where the other Specview files are.

Retrieve: specview_kurucz.jar (38 Mb)

Differences between Unix and Windows versions:

The only differences between these versions is the startup script file (specview Unix shell script, or SPECVIEW.BAT DOS script), and the packaging (Unix tar file, or self-extracting zip file). Everything else is identical in between the two versions.

Specview is distributed under an Open Source BSD-style license.