Useful stuff:
IFU core software - I am studying the basics of the basics for an IFU data reduction software. At the moment I am only caring about the central part of this which consists in separating the profile of different superposed fibers. Follow the link above and see this in more detail.
CCD online data reduction - I "grew up" doing high speed photometry of pulsating white dwarfs using Ed Nather's photometers and his wonderful quilt9 software. When I migrated to CCD photometry I could not stand piling up tapes to take home for later reduction. I had to develop my own little thing. I wrote some IRAF scripts and a C program which allow one to have pretty decent data reduction and light curve display online. On a Sparc 5 this works fairly well even with 10 seconds of time resolution and a 512 x 512 CCD chip. In UNIX tradition these are separate tasks, data reduction is one thing, the program to plot the data is another. The CCD control program is something each observatory has its own. Also, sometimes a filtering script is needed to add keywords to the observatory supplied headers. All these things are separate tasks which must all be concatenated to work together.
The
UFSC robotic telescope - in the Physics Department we form a three
men Astrophysics group. Our group project is to build a robotic telescope
in the future. We are currently educating ourselves in the business by
robotizing a Meade LX-200 25cm and soon to a Meade LX-200 40cm (they are
the same except for their primaries' diameter).
Research I am currently working on (only interesting to collaborators)
Coisas úteis:
Horários para Itajubá
- imagens da tabela de horários para se chegar - e sair - de Sao
Paulo a Itajubá
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