La Silla/Quest Documentation - Software

overview

startup procedures

CVS repositories (on hepunix at /group/ppg/prj/cvsroot):

  palomar - TK/Tcl GUI for controlling quest operations

  questops - lower-level programs for controlling the Palomar/Quest camera.

  scan_info - utility for calculating finger angles and CCD droprates.

  quest_docs - web-based documentation for Palomar/Quest.

  get_image - code for testing the camera

  focus - code for finding best focus ins sequence of focus images

  plane - code for finding best fitting plane through set of x,y,z points.
 

Useful Links:

CVS User's Guide

FITS hompage

Gnuplot help page

Redhat Linux User's Manual

Tl/Tcl guides