Conditions for the use of OYSTER
The software is provided to you for academic and/or non-profit
research purposes only, without fees. It is provided on an "as
is" basis without any obligations on the author's part to maintain, support,
update, enhance, or modify it. The software comes without warranty
of any kind, and the author is not responsible for any adverse
consequences resulting from its use. No assurance of suitability
for any purpose is implied by its availability for copying.
Three main C code subroutine libraries used by OYSTER and included in this
distribution (but see note below)
in their original form are the intellectual property
of others. These are the Naval Observatory Vector Astrometry
Subroutines (NOVAS),
the Hierarchical Data System by STARLINK
(HDS),
and the Flexible Image Transport System I/O package by the High
Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center
(FITSIO).
Note: the HDS library is no longer included in the public release due
to a combination of reasons related to size, ease of installation,
and importance for non-NPOI applications.
The OYSTER IDL code library also contains the
IDLASTRO
IDL astronomy library, and the
OI-DATA IDL Utilities written by J. Monnier.
Downloading OYSTER
The complete OYSTER installation is contained in the
three files below.
- Oyster (public version 6.16, released June 4, 2008)
- Catalogs (revised for version 6.00)
- Atmospheres (revised for version 4.00)
The IDL script code is regularly updated and can be downloaded with the
link below in order to upgrade to the most recent version.
Place the file in the main OYSTER directory and unpack it there
using "tar zxvf update.tar.gz ". Then change to directory "source/rsi" and run
the command "idl c". This will also update a few miscellaneous other files,
most notably the Earth rotation database. This update does not include
updates to the C code library. Whenever the C code library
changes, a new version is released.
- Updates (version 6.15, June 2, 2008)
First time installation from downloads
-
Unpack ( tar zxvf) the OYSTER archive first, this will create a folder
oyster in your current directory. Then save the other two
archive files to the main OYSTER directory and unpack them here.
This will create folders atmospheres and catalogs.
-
Check your system using the uname command. It must be one of the
following: Linux, SunOS, or HP-UX.
- Edit the file
Makefile.Linux.in in the source/rsi folder (if Linux
is your OS, for example) to enter the path of the IDL main directory
(e.g. rsi/idl_6.0) for the IDL variable.
-
Then run make in the main OYSTER
directory. This will compile all C code, as well as the script libraries.
It will also create a startup file for your system, oyster.pro,
located in the main directory.
-
To start OYSTER, just type idl oyster.pro
(including the full path if necessary).
For further information, please refer to the manual
(oyster.ps) in the document directory (oyster/docs).
If you are going to use the Kurucz models for modeling,
you need to run the following command in OYSTER to create
XDR files which are not contained in the downloaded distribution
of the atmospheres data.
kurudata,'ip00k2.pck19'
Download data for Michelson Summer School
Place this file in the html/lab directory and untar it there using
tar zxf data.tar.gz. The data files will be placed in a directory to
be created and called data.
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