Space Telescope
European Coordinating Facility

Users' Committee Meeting
10-11 December 1996

Proposal Preparation Tools

  • WF/PC Exposure Time Calculator
    • Initially developed by the ECF
    • For practical reasons taken over by ScI
    • Used during Cy 6 Phase II and Cy 7 Phase I
    • Available through WWW, TBS accesses at ScI and ECF
    • Upgrade planned for Cy 7 Phase II

  • TinyTim for NICMOS

    • TinyTim is the most popular PSF generator for WFPC and FOC
    • Orginally developed by ScI, frozen because of resource constraints
    • Taken over by ECF, extended to include NICMOS
    • Made available to ScI, NICMOS IDT

  • NICMOS Unit Conversion Tool

    • NICMOS spectral range covers Magnitudes and Janskys
    • ECF developed a unit concersion tool for proposal generation
    • Implemented in Java and accessible through WWW

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    R. Albrecht