Thanks for clearing that up. I thought it would be something like that, which is why I said I wasn't sure :) It would be quite handy to have a short list of the differences somewhere so that new users can decide which to try first. Kjetil Svalastog Matheussen wrote: >Nathaniel Virgo: > > >>I don't remember ever using it but I think the Ceres spectral editor >>does what you want, possibly, along with all kinds of other funky >>stuff. There seem to be several versions by different people, I think >>ceres3 is the most recent but I'm not sure. >> >> > >Not really. Ceres3 is based on a ~10 year old fork of Ceres. Both Ceres3 >and Ceres are both still being actively developed independently of each >other. They both have theire pros and cons. Generally (and probably >stupid) said, ceres is more fancy while ceres3 is more academic. > >I'm thinking about renaming Ceres as Ceres4, because Ceres3 sounds >newer and better than Ceres. But if I did, Ceres4 would sounds newer >and better than Ceres3 again, which might not be true either. > >(Well, to be hounest, I sometimes think Ceres3 should be named something >non-ceres though. It is a bit confusing.) > > > > >