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ds9Started by:huh?, 05/15/2006 09:10PM
Hi all,

I am new to IRAF and need to do some
data reduction.

I'd like to display my images using ds9
but I don't know how to launch it.

When I type ds9 & in the cl> it
reads: no display name and no $DISPLAY
environment variable.

So how do I r... 		 
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By: huh?
05/15/2006 09:10PM
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polyphotStarted by:Josh, 05/16/2006 03:58PM
Hi all...

I'm having a bit of difficulty with
polyphot.

I'm using it in such a way that I
already have a polygon defined in a
file, e.g. sourcename.pol and I have the
center of the source defined as
sourcename.coo, so that when I enter the
polyphot co... 		 
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By: Josh
05/16/2006 03:58PM
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pdm/graphics bug?Started by:massey, 05/17/2006 10:03PM
Mike,

I've encountered something that might be
a general bug in graphics, or maybe not.
The specifics of what I'm doing is
running the astutil task "pdm" to obtain
a periodogram (significance vs frequency
plot) for some light-curve data.
Because the ... 		 
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By: fitz
05/17/2006 10:03PM
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DOPCOR with multispec .fits framesStarted by:Matthew Walker, 05/18/2006 02:10AM
I am concerned about whether DOPCOR
adequately keeps track of subsequent
velocity shifts to different apertures
in a multispectrum frame. I am working
with multispectrum .fits frames from the
Magellan fiber spectrograph. I need to
use DOPCOR to apply ... 		 
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By: valdes
05/18/2006 02:10AM
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DS9 command lineStarted by:ovince, 05/18/2006 06:44AM
Hi All,

I would like to lunch DS9 with 2 images
to have in the same time for analysis
using command line. Could somebody help
me with this

Thanks
Oliver 		 
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By: ovince
05/18/2006 06:44AM
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extractig aperturesStarted by:Guest, 05/18/2006 07:56PM
Dear Iraf Help team,

I am an experienced user of stectra
software but I find myself unable to
solve the following problem.

I have echelle observations where the
star was out of focus. As a result,
a cut perpendicular to the dispersion
direction show... 		 
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By: valdes
05/18/2006 07:56PM
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Fwd: IdentifyStarted by:fitz, 05/18/2006 11:38PM
[Mod Note: Moved from story comment on
behalf of khanna]


Hi!

I am trying to use identify to trace
along horizontal lines in a lunar
spectra to unbend them.

Can I use pixel coordinates to do this?
What should my line list look like? How
do I know tha... 		 
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By: valdes
05/18/2006 11:38PM
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Problem with residual fitting in ecid...Started by:conor, 05/19/2006 03:05PM
Hi,

I'm relatively new to IRAF, but I'm
having a problem while calbrating the
dispersion of an echelle spectrum. When
identifying lines with ecidentify, I
type 'f' to get the residual vs
wavelength window. However when I try to
return to the spectrum I... 		 
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By: valdes
05/19/2006 03:05PM
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PDM extracting epoch at minimum lightStarted by:gnarayan, 05/23/2006 04:01AM
Hi,

I'd like to use PDM to fold a light
curve to a known period and extract the
epoch at minimum light - hitting the a
key gives me an epoch - is this the
epoch at 0 phase? Is there some other
way given a sparsely sampled light curve
and a known period... 		 
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By: fitz
05/23/2006 04:01AM
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Flux calibrationStarted by:, 05/24/2006 01:28PM
Hello,
I am currently a student. I found
a job at my university and I must do
some spectroscopy. My director haven`t
done any spectroscopy for years so he
cannot answer any of my questions! =(

I read a lot and I think I got to the
point where I ... 		 
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By: geprieto
05/24/2006 01:28PM
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specred packageStarted by:Guest, 05/24/2006 06:17PM
I am trying to do a multi-fiber
spectroscopic reduction using the
specred package.  I am using a 293
fiber system and there is moderate
curvature of the spectral lines.  I am
encountering a problem when
re-identifying spectral lines from my
first arc ... 		 
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By: valdes
05/24/2006 06:17PM
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Spectool numbs to keystrokes and xgte...Started by:sirmarcos, 05/24/2006 06:38PM
So, on MacOS X running Tiger and xgterm,
there is a reproducible problem I'm
having with spectool.

I load up a spectrum. I use the
"continuum fit spectra by curve fitting
of spectra" or whatever the words are,
which works. I then normalize the
spectr... 		 
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By: valdes
05/24/2006 06:38PM
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Dohydra Line Identification CrashStarted by:Guest, 05/25/2006 06:22PM
Hello,

I am having a strange crash when running
dohydra. It occurs during the
comparison line identification. I check
the identification and modify the fit
for the first one and then let the rest
of the apertures run. If I select NO
and let them all... 		 
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By: valdes
05/25/2006 06:22PM
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Also Memory problems in mscred.combineStarted by:Guest, 05/26/2006 06:51AM
I was trying to run mscstack to combine
mosaic images. I met errors "PANIC in
`/iraf/mscred/bin.redhat/x_combine.e':
Memory has been corrupted" only if the
number of input images is larger than
33. I downloaded the pacthed package of
mscred, ie, which ... 		 
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By: valdes
05/26/2006 06:51AM
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Rebinning echelle spectraStarted by:, 05/29/2006 09:19AM
Is it possible within IRAF to rebin
spectra by a factor of 2 (to obtain
better S/N) rather than to a specific
dispersion value? I see dispcor can be
used to set a new value of 'wavelength
value per pixel', but as the dispersion
of echelle spectra vary w... 		 
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By: valdes
05/29/2006 09:19AM
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Registering ImagesStarted by:Hooloovoo, 05/30/2006 10:57AM
Hi,

I need to align several *.fits frames
from a single telescope and then stack
them. The problem is that there are
small rotations from frame to frame so I
cannot use
[color=blue:34a91f3caf]imalign[/color:34a91f3caf].
I attempted to use [color=blue... 		 
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By: Hooloovoo
05/30/2006 10:57AM
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book-quality fonts in igi?Started by:dan.maoz, 05/30/2006 03:28PM
Hi
I've used igi to produce figures for a
textbook. IGI uses the same
Roman fonts as Mongo and Supermongo,
which are seen very frequently
in papers in the astro journals.
However, the illustration expert at
Princeton University Press has
complained t... 		 
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By: dan.maoz
05/30/2006 03:28PM
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Fringe removal in red partStarted by:valdes, 05/30/2006 05:30PM
[b:aed5a995d4]From:
[/b:aed5a995d4]Ranjan Gupta
<rag@iucaa.ernet.in
([email]rag@iucaa.ernet.in[/email])>
[b:aed5a995d4]Date: [/b:aed5a995d4]May
27, 2006 10:52:23 PM MST
[b:aed5a995d4]To: [/b:aed5a995d4]"Frank
F. Valdes" <valdes@noao.edu
([email... 		 
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By: valdes
05/30/2006 05:30PM
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Cutting emission linesStarted by:mv1612, 05/31/2006 03:52PM
Hi,

My first post here, if it is elementary
I apologize, I just began learning IRAF.
I'm working on some very high resolution
spectra of a WR star. I need to cut the
upper part of an emission line cause I
would use the wings only for
cross-correlation,... 		 
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By: mv1612
05/31/2006 03:52PM
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msctpeak errorStarted by:joshw, 05/31/2006 08:44PM
I've just switched to a Mac OS X system
and have run into an error when running
msctpeak:

[code:1:dbae80f486]ms> msctpeak
obj009 USNO_obj009 database
ERROR on line 62: Cannot open
connected subprocess
(ttools$x_ttools.e)
msctpeak ... 		 
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By: fitz
05/31/2006 08:44PM
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Questions from M. De RobertisStarted by:Guest, 06/01/2006 01:11PM
Dear IRAF,

I have two questions that I'd like your
help with please.

1. I have a POSS fits image that I've
'display'ed and would like to run
'imexamine' on in order to get the RA
and Dec coordinates for certain
stars. When I type 'a' to get a
stellar... 		 
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By: fitz
06/01/2006 01:11PM
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Converting fits file into data pointsStarted by:rohit, 06/01/2006 07:38PM
Hello All,

I would like to know a command or sets
of commands I need to use to convert a
fits file into data points for plotting.
Well, I have a plot Flux vs wavelength.
I would like to use IRAF to obtain two
data-point columns, Flux and wavelength,
s... 		 
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By: fitz
06/01/2006 07:38PM
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msccmatch problemStarted by:joshw, 06/02/2006 01:29AM
Hi,

I'm running into a problem using
msccmatch in mscred. I'm running it in
non-interactive mode on a long list of
object files. From time to time it
stops with an error (see below). When
restarted (after removing the
sucessfully completed files fro... 		 
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By: valdes
06/02/2006 01:29AM
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ds9 dropping rows from irafStarted by:Aaron, 06/02/2006 04:07AM
The y-pixel coords are wrong in my
images displayed in ds9 from iraf. This
especially affects usage of tvmark and
imexam. [b:fb28756c5f][i:fb28756c5f]One
row in every eleven is actually missing
from the displayed
image[/i:fb28756c5f][/b:fb28756c5f],
w... 		 
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By: Aaron
06/02/2006 04:07AM
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Parameters fd1 and fd2 in rspectextStarted by:Guest, 06/02/2006 10:27AM
Dear IRAF help,
Please could you tell me what is
the meaning of the parameters fd1
and fd2 in noao.onedspec.rspectext.
There is no comment against them in
the par file and nothing in the
help file. I am running version 2.12.2.a

Many thanks
... 		 
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By: fitz
06/02/2006 10:27AM
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find wcs when pointing unknownStarted by:jim, 06/03/2006 08:04PM
Is there any IRAF task(or non-IRAF for
that matter) that will take an image
with no wcs header info and locate the
sky postion and produce a wcs? I know
the position to about +/- 10 deg in each
axis.

Thanks,
Jim 		 
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By: jim
06/03/2006 08:04PM
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Doecslit 'sparams' and Apall parametersStarted by:iur, 06/05/2006 10:28PM
Hello,

I have been using the DOECSLIT task to
extract echelle spectra. I have tried
to adjust the parameters for the trace
using the 'sparams' within DOECSLIT, but
with no success in extracting my spectra
the way that I want. When I look at the
param... 		 
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By: iur
06/05/2006 10:28PM
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using mscred with Subaru Suprime Cam ...Started by:joshw, 06/06/2006 01:05AM
I'm about to try reducing Suprime Cam
data from Subaru. Suprime is a wide
field camera similar to Mosaic with 10
CCDs instead of 8. I've reduced a lot
of KPNO and CTIO Mosaic data and am
familiar with mscred, so I was hoping to
use it for Suprime cam ... 		 
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By: fitz
06/06/2006 01:05AM
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Subscripts in axes labelsStarted by:, 06/06/2006 02:03PM
Hi

Can you give me some information on how
to do sub/superscripts within axes
labels using splot? I have spectra where
I have fitted emission lines within
splot and need to produce plots of the
data with the fit overplotted. I know to
change the labels... 		 
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By: fitz
06/06/2006 02:03PM
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isoexamStarted by:JN, 06/06/2006 03:47PM
Hi-

I ran ellipse
(stsdas.analysis.isophote.ellipse) on
one of my images and it successfully
made an output table (gal.tab). Now I
am trying to overplot the ellipse
contours from the table onto my galaxy
fits image in ds9. I can plot the
contours whe... 		 
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By: fitz
06/06/2006 03:47PM
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