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                 REFLEX HANDS-ON SESSION: UVES
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*** UVES SOFTWARE ***
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In this hands-on session, we will run through the UVES tutorial,
diving deeper into some of the details tat are glossed over in the
online tutorial document.

Therefore, you are strongly encouraged to bring a laptop with the
EsoReflex UVES workflow and UVES demo-data properly installed.

The installation can be done into several ways:


1) via MacPorts (for Mac OS operating systems);
   http://www.eso.org/sci/software/pipelines/installation/macports.html

2) via rpm (for Linux, Fedora 20-25, Scientific Linux 7 64 bits
   platforms);
   http://www.eso.org/sci/software/pipelines/installation/rpm.html

3) via an installation script install_exoreflex; The script can be
   found here: ftp://ftp.eso.org/pub/dfs/reflex/install_esoreflex
   The script supports Mac OS and Linux
  
   For the script installation, follow these steps:
     - make the script executable: chmod u+x install_esoreflex
     - execute the script by typing: ./install_esoreflex

   During the installation, you have to specify which workflow,
   pipeline, and demo datasets to install.


   Note: the UVES workflow relies on a number of Python packages. Be sure
   they are present in your system or in your preferred miniconda environment.
     - matplotlib
     - wxPython
     - astropy
     - numpy
     - scipy
    

More information on the installation procedure can be found in Section
2 of the UVES tutorial:
ftp://ftp.eso.org/pub/dfs/pipelines/uves/uves-reflex-tutorial-6.10.pdf

Note that Windows is not supported.


Additional notes:
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1) Please make sure you have at least 80 Gb of data free in your
hard-disk. This space is required for the input files and all the
files that will be created during the reductions. If needed, you can
use an external drive; in this case, please make sure that the name of
the external disk does not contain spaces or special characters. Note
that the software itself needs to be installed in your pc.
  

2) We strongly recommend to have a look at the reflex tutorial 
ftp://ftp.eso.org/pub/dfs/pipelines/uves/uves-reflex-tutorial-6.10.pdf

3) In particular for Mac users: bring a mouse!



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*** VISUALIZATION TOOLS ***
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We suggest that you install some kind of fits visualisation tools. Some
suggestions:

 ds9 (useful for images and 2D spectra)
 fv (useful for images, spectra, and fits tables)
 QFitsView (for images and datacubes).

You can find them here:

ds9: http://ds9.si.edu/site/Home.html
fv:  https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/software/ftools/fv/
QfitsView:  http://www.mpe.mpg.de/~ott/QFitsView/

Some of them are also available via MacPorts and/or RPM.


If you have questions on the UVES hands-on-data session, do not
hesitate to contact John Pritchard at jpritcha at eso dot org