Alex Rudy alexrudy

Title: Notes on Installing IRAF Author: Alexander Rudy

Introduction

We're going to install [IRAF][] and [PYRAF][] on a MacMini. Our MacMini uses [MacPorts][] to manage most things, so a lot of software will be checked and updated using [MacPorts][]. The installation instructions are mostly done stream of conciousness as I went through everything. It turns out that despite [IRAF][]'s big, scary, horrible nature, this process is not too complicated for a basic, working setup.

PLEASE BEAR IN MIND:

I use [MacPorts][] whenever possible, and almost always for Python things. If your numpy, matplotlib or ipython installations are wierd, you're in for a ride.
Also, I don't do much interactively in PyRAF, so if you do, you may find bugs. Let me know!

SSH Key-Based Authentication

First, on the local machine:

$ ssh-keygen -t rsa

This creates an ssh key. You should only do this once, and you only need to do it if you want to set your own password to use with your SSH key. Here are some good reasons to set a password with your SSH key:

If someone steals your key files, they can't use them.
Your password will be stored in the Mac OS X Keychain (like so many others), so you usually won't even have to enter it.
Passwords make life a little bit safer.

First Group Meeting

Evan and I met to discuss the start of his SIP work. We are currently persuing three projects:

Learning Python
Exploring images of the Crab Nebula
Reading the Schweitzer et. al. Paper

We also talked briefly about stellar evolution, and how Pulsars form.

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	def __getattr__(self,name):
	"""Provides a passthrough for functions that we haven't named yet.

	This allows stacks to call methods defined within frames. Most frames define a :meth:`~BaseFrame.__show__`. This method can be called using :meth:`show` with the following syntax::

	>>> Stack.show("SomeFrameName")

	The special syntax can take as many framenames as desired as arguments, and will call the named method on each one. So::

	>>> Stack.show("FrameA","FrameB","FrameC")

	"""
	This is a parser for the Keck starlist format.
	The format is documented at the Keck website: <https://www2.keck.hawaii.edu/observing/starlist.html>

	Author: Alex Rudy, UCSC
	Date: 2015-01-24
	License: BSD
	"""

	import warnings

	#!/usr/bin/env python
	# -- coding: utf-8 --
	"""OSIRIS Datacubes have axes which are (WAVE, RA, DEC) in FITS files. Most programs
	for reading and analyzing data cubes expect to have axes which are (RA, DEC, ...).
	This script moves the (RA, DEC) axes to the front of the data cube.

	The data is transformed using :func:`numpy.rollaxis` and the WCS solution is transformed
	using :meth:`~astropy.wcs.WCS.reorient_celestial_first`. All other FITS header keywords
	remain unchanged.

	#!/usr/bin/env perl
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	# submit.pl
	# A simple tool to prepare .tex manuscirpts for submission.
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	# modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are

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	# tmux_funcs.sh
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	# This file provides some basic helper functions for
	# working with TMUX from a shell script.
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	# Copyright (c) 2015, Alexander Rudy
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