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- Telescopes & Instruments
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The Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Telescope Data Center creates and maintains software to process and archive data from optical telescopes at the Whipple Observatory and MMT Observatory on Mt. Hopkins in Arizona.
| Data | IRAF | Using IRAF at the CfA |
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Systems
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Image Reduction and Analysis Facility
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| Observing | scat: | Searching Star Catalogs (papers) |
| Preparation | skymap: | Making Charts from Astronomical Catalogs (Making Images) |
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| widl:
| Making Finding Charts from DSS Images
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| Data | svdfit: | Removing sky from spectra ( ApJ Letters paper) |
| Reduction | STELIRCam | [Data reduction] [Instrument] |
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| FAST | [Data reduction] [Instrument] [Reduced Data Archive] |
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Hectospec
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[Data reduction]
[Instrument]
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| Data | rvsao: | Computing Redshifts in IRAF (papers) |
| Analysis | SAOimage: | Displaying Images (papers) |
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| WCSTools: | Using Sky Coordinates in Astronomical Images (papers) |
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Image header manipulation utilities
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| Astronomical | DS9 the best astronomical image display program, written by Bill Joye at the CfA | |
| Software | SExtractor Source extractor, for finding objects in astronomical images, written by Emmanuel Bertin at Terapix in France | |
| Elsewhere | IRAF, the open source astronomical data analysis system, written at NOAO, the National Optical Astronomy Observatory, and elsewhere | |
Last updated 7 January 2013 by Jessica Mink
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