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
R. Albrecht