Release notes
Release of V1.2.4 (14/12/2012)
New features:
- minor bug fixes
- interactive GS selection with radio buttons and highlighting in the plot
- EXPERT MODE: allowed selection of GS in the VA and on upper part of detector (highlighted red and with VAx-flag in table
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Release of V1.2.3 (22/11/2012)
New features:
- fixed a bug with the GS selection ... if you have created any scripts between 05.-20.11 please redo them!
- minor bug fixes
- Extra field for blind offsets for LMS and LS and Spec scripts
- Checkbox allowing repitition of offset pattern
- new plot programm (matplotlib, Python) - hope u like it!
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Release of V1.2.2 (05/10/2012)
New features:
- minor bug fixes
- On-slit dithering pattern for LS,LMS and SPEC scripts
- Telluric choice is easier - you can either choose ranges of types or single types, only tellurics close to the object are highlighted (+/-3h in RA, 15&Deg; in DE)
- Pop up windows with hints show up over all fields
Release of V1.2.1 (30/08/2012)
New features:
- minor bug fixes
- hitting enter does not effect the form anymore
- a NOMAD name is given for the chosen Guidestar from a LMS file
- the field marker for LMS Guidestar is now correct
- the standard calibration files for 150_Ks and K are now the same as for 150_Ks and Ks
- after hitting the refresh button for the Telluric, the form returns to this point
Release of V1.1.1 (31/07/2012)
New features:
- change of output file names for LMS upload (starting with filename....)
- new section for LMS/Longslit scripts allowing for a telluric choice from the GEMINI Hipparcos selection
- new section for LMS/Longslit scripts allowing for a telluric guide star search
- new subsection for LMS scripts allowing for a telluric dithering
- new standard exposure times and integration number for acq_target, spec_target, acq_telluric, spec_telluric
- bug fixed that prohibited the selection of non-integer offsets
Release of V1.1.0 (11/06/2012)
New features:
- read in LMS files
- complete set of output files (incl. Tellurics etc) for input-LMS
- further help can be found in the manual
Official alpha-Release (21/05/2012)
New features:
- read in batch files for offset (format see documentation)
- all known bugs from beta-version fixed
- recommanded exposuretimes for calibration lamps updated
- automatized output of calibration script in spectroscopic scripts
- dithering/offset check of the guide star
Official beta-Release (09/05/2012)
Known bugs:
As this is the first version of the scriptcreator and only a minor number of people (thanks to Jochen, Dave Thompson and Jaron Kurk) has tested this application so far, so that certainly some further problems/bugs (might i.e. be python-errors) will be discovered. As soon as you discover them, please let me know, so that I can fix them.
- for position angle%90!=0 some objects within the vignetting avoidance area are highlighted as possible GS, this will be fixed in the alpha version
- for position angle%90!=0 some objects outside the allowed patrol field (i.e. outside the circle caused by the gregorian focus) are highlighted as possible GS, this will be fixed in the alpha version
- some special fields (e.g. 03 00 00.0+24 00 00.0) cause a python error, due to a definition bug, will be fixed in alpha
Purpose and Prerequisites
Purpose of the script creator:
The scriptcreator
is an internet tool (working with a CGI/python combination) which can be used to create and edit scripts for the LUCIFER instrument at LBT. The tool was written to avoid typos in the output scripts and to make it easy for the observer to find a suitable guide star (which currently is the most common error in the scripts). Together with the scriptchecker it is able to find nearly all fundamental syntax errors and partially errors in the semantic.
The scriptcreator and its manual
are not the replacement or an add-on to the LUCIFER manual. An observer who is willing to write a meaningful script has to study this manual first (and there is certainly no way around this)! The scriptcreator certainly is an easy-to-handle tool with which one can also find the 'correct settings' by trial&error, but that was not the meaning of writing this tool. After all the observer is responsible for his own scripting.
Prerequisites of the script creator:
Since it is an internet application, not more than a (fairly recent version of a) browser and a zip-unpacking program is needed, as the output-scripts can only be download in zip-format.
Sample scripts:
The following scripts were created by the script creator. They can furthermore be uploaded to the form which is also possible with 'correctly' (in the meaning of the scriptcreator) written scripts. If uploaded values are not in the respective drop-down menu (for filters pay attention to capital letters) an error message is thrown.
