MODS Observing Preparation Tools
This page provides links to MODS observing preparation tools: mask
design, observing scripts, target visualization and guide star
selection, exposure time calculators, target visiblity and atmospheric
refraction calculators and more.
This will be a work in progress for some time, and will add more
(and we hope better) tools as we gain experience observing with MODS
on the LBT.
MODS Instrument Manual
- MODS Instrument Manual v1.4.5
(2013 Jan 20 - 5Mb PDF)
This and the Observing Scripts Manual
constitute the user manual for MODS.
Please direct comments and suggestions to Rick Pogge
(pogge@astronomy.ohio-state.edu). Manuals will usually be updated
before the start of each observing semester.
MODS Multi-Object Slit Mask Design Software (MMS)
MMS is the mask design software for MODS, based on LMS for LUCI.
The link below leads to the User's Manual and the MMS package download.
- MMS v1.6 (2011 Nov 28)
Please update your version of MMS.
modsTools is a suite of programs that will create MODS observing
scripts. Links below include the MODS observing script manual,
download of modsTools script, and example scripts.
- MODS Observing Scripts Manual v1.3.2 (2013 Jan 20 - 1Mb PDF)
- modsTools - MODS Observing Script Preparation Toolkit (v1.3 2013 Jan 20)
- Example MODS Observing Scripts
Please read the MODS Script Manual before using the examples or script tools.
MODS Target Visualization and Guide Star Selection
modsView is a Python program that uses the SAOImage ds9 display for
MODS target visualization and guide star selection and
verification.
- modsView - MODS Target Acquisition and Guide
Star Selection Tool (v2.1.1 - 2016 Oct 15)
A companion program, luciView,
can be used for LUCI target visualization and guide star selection.
lbtView End-of-Life
As of 2013 June 1, we phased out lbtView, and removed it from service.
If you still have a copy of lbtView, get rid of it, please, and instead
use modsView
and luciView.
MODS Observing Planning Tools
Web-based exposure time calculators, target visibility, and
atmospheric differential refraction estimators.
- MODS Observing Planning Tools (2012 Nov 6)
Updated: 2014 Feb 23 [rwp/osu]
