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PACS Observer's Manual

The PACS Observer's Manual is the essential reference manual for PACS observers.

HSpot

The Herschel-Spot (HSpot) User's Guiden is Herschel Observation Planning Tool
HSpot is the means by which users and potential users of the Herschel Space Observatory can provide new and updated observing requests for the observatory. It also incorporates a proposal submission tool. It is based on the SPOT tool devloped for NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope but includes updates that allow for the formulation of observing requests for the three science instruments on board Herschel HIFI, SPIRE and PACS.
Detailed information on the instruments, and some further, instrument specific, HSpot illustrations are provided in the three instrument manuals also available from the Herschel Space Observatory website For help that is not provided in either the instrument or HSPOT manuals, the Herschel Helpdesk can be contacted at:
herschel_hd@sciops.esa.in

The prime purpose of this manual is therefore to describe the setup and use of the user interface to HSpot.
This manual provides information on the user interface for HSpot only, and does not attempt to describe more fully the transformation to uplinked spacecraft/instrument commands which are written in the Common Uplink System (CUS) language. Only a general description of this process, for each of the instruments, is given in chapter 9.
Information on the data products, pipeline processing and data processing (included in the Herschel Common Science System, HCSS) is also not covered in this manual. Processing and products information is available from the
Herschel web site
Brief descriptions of data products and pipelines for each of the instruments are also contained in the instrument manuals available at the same site.

Credits

The contents of this page are based on the "Herschel-Spot (HSpot) User Guide"(Document Number:HERSCHEL-HSC-DOC-0788)

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