| WFI Workstation in Santiago |
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| WFI Workstation in Santiago |
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| WFI WS Booking Schedule | WFI WS Usage statistics | Archive Data Retrieval | Software Tips | Problems and solutions (?) |
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This is the Wide Field Imager Santiago WS page. Here you will find informations about the booking schedule of the WS, informations about the available software and some tips to cope with the header changes in the WFI images. If you are unable to find the informations you require on this page, please contact epompei@eso.org.
The WS is reserved on a first come, first served basis and can be booked
for a period of one week to 10 days at time. If no one else requires it, the
period may be extended to another week or 10 days slot.
Shorter booking periods are also possible.
The WS use is reserved for resident astronomers of ESO-Chile; if a visiting
astronomer wishes to use it, this is allowed only if it is done within a
collaboration with a resident astronomer at ESO, who will be also responsible
for the WS booking.
Two long term accounts are set, one (user 2) for WFI pipeline developing and
testing, and another one (user 3), for testing new software installations
before implementing them on a root level.
Only one account (user 1) is currently available for the users and no remote
login is allowed.
Below you can find the current booking schedule for the WS.
If you wish to book it, please contact:
epompei@eso.org.
April 2001 booking
May 2001 booking
June 2001 booking
July 2001 booking
August 2001 booking
Below are displayed the statistics of WS booking for the period
April 2000-March 2001. The statistics takes into account the effective
use of the machine (batch processes, remote and direct access), but
no test time for software packages has been included.
Usage statistics April 2000 - March 2001
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Archive retrieval for WFI data.
A well developed package for
reducing mosaic data is mscred,
under IRAF. The major problem in using this software
is that the some
keywords in the ESO
header are not recognized by IRAF. To cope with this, a special single task
package has been written by F. Valdes at NOAO, called
esowfi. This
task transforms the original header into a new one readable by IRAF.
Some WFI data
reduction tips and
software tools from the
ESO Imaging Survey Team.
The
Mosaic package of
IRAF
The
flips Mosaic Reduction Package.
The
slides.ps Available software and facilities for WFI
Due to the fact that the headers are currently being adjusted to become VLT
compliant, it might happen that the esowfi package does not work
correctly.
WARNING: the new esowfi (release date:
June 13, 2000) might NOT
work
correctly with older data, while the previous one (April 2000) does not
have any problems.
A copy of the old esowfi package has been saved on the WS disk, should you
need it, but be aware that the November 2000 SCISOFT release will
contain the new esowfi package only, so...take care of doing backups
before upgrading.
The FTU command (short for FITS
Translation Utility), is a tool used to manipulate FITS files.
The
saft command. It converts the long ESO keywords (HIERARCH_xxx) into
IRAF compatible ones.