Document Preparation Tools (TeX,etc)

Aspects of publishing with TeX and LaTeX

Astronomical Data Center FTP Archive

CATALOGS: astrometric, positional, spectroscopic, photometric data. Cross-identifications, combined and derived data, non-stellar and extended objects, galactic, extra-galactic data, and miscellaneous data. FITS Table Browser software. E-mail directory. American node of Astronomical Data Centers.

Echelle Reduction Manual for IRAF Users ( Lick Obs. Tech. Report #74 )

The manual describes the general IRAF packages, tasks, and parameters necessary to calibrating, extracting, and viewing data taken with echelle spectrographs. It is intended as a beginner's guide to IRAF echelle data reduction. Many task and task parameters are explained in detail and an example reduction from start to finish is presented. Specific concerns and settings for the Hamilton Echelle Spectrograph are addressed, but these apply to echelle spectrographs in general. Optimal extractions and scattered light removal techniques are addressed.

Echelle Scattered Light Algorithm ( HAMSCATT )

HAMSCATT is a FORTRAN 77 module that interoperates with IRAF via the IMFORT library. It is publicly available. The distributed is a compressed tar file that contains the HAMSCATT software described in Churchill and Allen (PASP, 107, 193).

La Palma - Isaac Newton Group (WWW) ( ING )

The Issac Newton Group consists of three telescopes, the 4.2 metre William Herschel Telescope, the 2.5 metre Isaac Newton Telescope, and the 1.0 metre Jacobus Kapteyn Telscope. They are situated at the Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos on La Palma in the Canary Islands, and are operated by the Royal Observatories of the UK. This resource contains documentation for many of the major instruments, details of how to apply for time, brief descriptions of the telescopes, details and status of the service programme, current telescope schedules, daylight and moonlight diagrams from the Nautical Almanac Office of the RGO, reports on recent instrument commissioning, and pointers to weather information for La Palma and to the home pages of other institutions which share the site.

PSPLOT

PSPLOT is a Fortran-callable PostScript plotting library which can create 2-D publication-quality graphics. It supports the standard 35 PostScript fonts and color, and is distributed free of charge for non- commercial use.

WIP

WIP is a simple to use command line user interface used to produce high quality graphical output. It is linked with the PGPLOT subroutine package providing easy interaction with those subroutines.