Software Information

about the

Alpha and MIPS Systems


The software of the new DEC Unix (OSF/1) version 4.0 (currently only installed on 'aibn34') had been newly compiled and will soon be available on all Alphas at '/usr/local', see the list of all new software packages.

Older software:

Concerning the two big image reduction programs in use at the Sternwarte, the
Munich Image Data Analysis System (MIDAS) by the European Southern Observatory (ESO), Garching [started by 'inmidas no' or 'gomidas no'] and the
Image Reduction and Analysis Facility (IRAF) by the National Optical Astronomy Observatories (NOAO), Tucson, Cerro Tololo (Tody 1986) [started by 'iraf'], the following programs are called from MIPS|Ultrix (aibn70,71,72) and Alpha|OSF/1 (aibn25,31,32,33,34) respectively: Additionaly the photometry software SExtractor (version 2.0.15) is installed ('/aibn31_0/sextractor').
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First version:26thApril,1997
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Jochen M. Braun
 (E-Mail: jbraun@astro.uni-bonn.de)