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Pickles: A Wide-Field Imaging Tool

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 July 2016

L.W. Fredrick ,
G.F. Benedict ,
R. Duncombe ,
O.G. Franz ,
P.D. Hemenway ,
W.H. Jeffreys ,
B. McArthur ,
J. McCartney ,
E. Nelan  and
P.J. Shelus
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L.W. Fredrick
Affiliation:
Leander McCormick Observatory, Box 3818, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA
G.F. Benedict
Affiliation:
Leander McCormick Observatory, Box 3818, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA
R. Duncombe
Affiliation:
Leander McCormick Observatory, Box 3818, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA
O.G. Franz
Affiliation:
Leander McCormick Observatory, Box 3818, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA
P.D. Hemenway
Affiliation:
Leander McCormick Observatory, Box 3818, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA
W.H. Jeffreys
Affiliation:
Leander McCormick Observatory, Box 3818, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA
B. McArthur
Affiliation:
Leander McCormick Observatory, Box 3818, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA
J. McCartney
Affiliation:
Leander McCormick Observatory, Box 3818, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA
E. Nelan
Affiliation:
Leander McCormick Observatory, Box 3818, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA
P.J. Shelus
Affiliation:
Leander McCormick Observatory, Box 3818, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA
D. Story
Affiliation:
Leander McCormick Observatory, Box 3818, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA
A.L. Whipple
Affiliation:
Leander McCormick Observatory, Box 3818, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA
W.F. van Altena
Affiliation:
Leander McCormick Observatory, Box 3818, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA

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The program Pickles was developed as an aid for planning HST observations using the Space Telescope Science Institute's Guide Star Catalogue, which was generated from wide-field Schmidt plates. Pickles reads the catalogue from CD-ROM and then displays a one-degree square field. The HST focal plane apertures can then be displayed singly or in any combination which is at the choice of the observer (Fig. 1). The user can generate an aperture of a different type if need be. The stars can be displayed as open or filled circles with their relative sizes indicating their magnitude. Stars or other objects can be added and saved with the field.

Type
Part Seven: Archiving and Databases
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 161: Astronomy from Wide-Field Imaging , 1994 , pp. 356 - 358
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1994