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Hands-on Exercises for Learning IRAF (1Mar94) (from CCS, NOAO Newsletter No. 37, 1 March 1994) Some IRAF exercises have been developed that may assist the novice user in learning IRAF. These are hands-on exercises using real data provided by our KPNO staff and cover general IRAF procedures, CCD reductions, photometry, spectral extractions and wavelength calibration, and data input/output. The exercises have been packaged into a tar file; the tar file contains the data, the exercises themselves, and charts for the stars to be identified for photometric calibration and the line identifications for the wavelength calibrations. The exercises have been developed for the latest release of IRAF, version 2.10.2, and assume the user is using an xterm window and SAOimage (v1.07). These exercises may be useful both for the scientist and for students in the classroom setting. The exercises can be obtained from our anonymous FTP archive in the following manner: % ftp iraf.noao.edu (140.252.1.1) ftp> log in as anonymous ftp> use your e-mail address as the password ftp> cd iraf.old ftp> get readme.exer2102 ftp> binary ftp> get exer2102.tar.Z ftp> quit The readme.exer2102 file contains more information about the exercises including instructions for their installation. New IRAF users may find the document A Beginner's Guide to Using IRAF (IRAF Version 2.10) - Draft a useful learning tool as well. This manual is also available in the IRAF network archive and can be retrieved in the following way: % ftp iraf.noao.edu (140.252.1.1) ftp> log in as anonymous ftp> use your e-mail address as the password ftp> cd pub ftp> binary ftp> get beguide.ps.Z ftp> quit The document can be printed to a local PostScript printer on a Unix host using a command such as % zcat beguide.ps.Z | lpr -P< your_printer_name> Please direct any questions to jbarnes@noao.edu. Jeannette Barnes
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