This is a list of the most useful User's Guides and Manuals about IRAF, in either (compressed) Postscript or PDF format. For further info or documents on IRAF and STSDAS, please consult the IRAF Documentation Archive and the STSDAS Documentation page. Also visit http://iraf.net/, the new IRAF website, and in particular the very interesting users forum which replaces the old email-based IRAF help desk.
| Link | Description | |
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| Basic Guides | ||
| IRAF Beginner's Guide | A Beginner's Guide to Using IRAF version 2.10 - by J. Barnes, Aug 1993
Useful introduction to IRAF, with a general description of the IRAF software, capabilities, etc. It does not deal with how to use IRAF to reduce and analyse astronomical data. |
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| STSDAS User's Guides | Guides to the STSDAS package (and reduction of HST data) | |
| User's Guide to CCD Reduction | A User's Guide to CCD Reduction with IRAF - by P. Massey, Feb 1997 A general overview and description of how to reduce CCD data. More specialized cookbooks exist for more specific areas (aperture photometry, spectroscopic data, etc.) |
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| Guide to IRAF Scripts | An Introductory User's Guide to IRAF Scripts - by E. Anderson, R.
Seaman A good document on how to write simple terminal scripts as well as more structured and comples CL scripts. Might be discouraging though after the first reading, but do not give up. |
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| General IRAF User's Guides and Cookbooks | ||
| User's Introduction to IRAF CL | A User's Introduction to the IRAF Command Language v2.3 - by P.MB. Shames, D. Tody - Aug 1986 | |
| IRAF's Quick Reference Card | Quick Reference Card for IRAF | |
| Synphot User's Guide | Guide to the STSDAS Synphot package - Updated Nov 2005 | |
| C Virtual Operating System | CVOS User's Guide and Reference Manual -- Dec 1999 | |
| Cleaning Images | Cleaning Images of Bad Pixels and Cosmic Rays Using IRAF - by L.A. Wells, D.J. Bell, Sept 1994 | |
| APPHOT User's Guide | A User's Guide to the Aperture Photometry Package - by L. Davis, May 1989 | |
| Rectifying and Registering Images | Rectifying and Registering Images Using IRAF - by L. Wells, Apr 1994 | |
| Guide to Slit Spectra Reduction | A User's Guide to Reducing Slit Spectra with IRAF - by P. Massey, F. Valdes, J. Barnes, Apr 1992 | |
| User's Guide to Echelle Spectra Reduction | A User's Guide to Reducing Echelle Spectra with IRAF - by D. Willmarth, J. Barnes - May 1994 | |
| Radial Velocity with Identify | Radial Velocity Measurements with IDENTIFY - by F. Valdes, Aug 1990 | |
| IGI Reference Manual | The Interactive Graphic Interpreter in STSDAS - 3rd edition, Sept 1998 | |
| IGI's Quick Reference Card | Quick Reference Card for IGI | |
| User's Guides to the new FITS format | ||
| FITS Kernel User's Guide | User's Guide to the new IRAF FITS Kernel used in IRAF v2.11 - by N. Zarate, Aug 97 | |
| STScI Guide to the new FITS kernel | STScI User's Guide to the IRAF FITS kernel: the new format used for NICMOS and STIS - by P. Greenfield, Aug 97 | |
| IRAF/DAOPHOT User's Guides and Cookbooks | ||
| Guide to IRAF Stellar Photometry | A User's Guide to Stellar CCD Photometry with IRAF - by P. Massey, L.E. Davis, Apr 1992 - latest version | |
| Daophot's Developments | Future Developments of the Daophot crowded-field photometry package - by P.B. Stetson, L.E. Davis, D.R. Crabtree | |
| IRAF/Daophot's Reference Guide | A Reference Guide to the IRAF/DAOPHOT Package - by L.E. Davis, Jan 1994 | |
| Guides to the Mosaic Reduction Package | ||
| The NOAO Mosaic Data Handling System | A description of the "NOAO Mosaic Data Handling System" - by D. Tody and F.G. Valdes - 1998 | |
| IRAF Help page for the mscguide task or topic | The IRAF help page for the package: MSCRED - by F. Valdes, v2.0, Sept 98 | |
| Programming in IRAF | ||
| CL Programmer's manual | CL Programmer's manual - by E. Downey, D. Tody, G.H. Jacoby, Sept 1983 - out of date, but still useful | |
| Guide to SPP Programming | An Introductory User's Guide to IRAF SPP Programming - by R. Seaman, Oct 1992 | |
| SPP Reference Manual | Reference Manual for the Subsect PreProcessor Language (the IRAF Programming Language) | |
| User's Guide to IMFORT | A User's Guide to Fortran Programming in IRAF. The IMFORT Interface - by D. Tody, Sept 1986 | |
| Update to IMFORT | Update to the IMFORT Interface - by D. Tody, June 1989 | |
| Site Manager's Manuals | ||
| IRAF Standards and Conventions | IRAF Standards and Conventions - by E. Downey etal, Aug 1983 | |
| PC-IRAF V2.12 Installation Guide | PC-IRAF V2.12 Installation Guide - by D. Tody and M. Fitzpatrick, May 2002 | |
| Unix/IRAF v2.12 Site Manager's Guide | Unix/IRAF v2.12 Site Manager's Guide - by D. Tody and M. Fitzpatrick, May 2002. | |
| Site Manager's Quick Reference Card | Quick Reference Card for the Site Manager (version for Linux) | |
| Test for IRAF v2.11 | Preliminary Test Procedure for IRAF. Version 2.11 - by J. Barnes, Sept 1997 | |
| STSDAS Installation Guide | STSDAS Site Manager's Installation Guide and Reference - version 2.2, Aug 2000 | |
| Guides to Specific Packages and Tasks | ||
| Guide to DOECSLIT | Guide to the Slit Spectra Reduction Task DOECSLIT - by F. Valdes - Apr 1992 | |
| Guide to DOSLIT | Guide to the Slit Spectra Reduction Task DOSLIT - by F. Valdes - Feb 1993 - latest version | |
| Guide to SPECPROC | Guide to the CTIO Slit Spectra Reduction Task SPECPROC - by F. Valdes, Sept 1990 | |
| MEM Package in IRAF | MEM Pakage for Image Restoration in IRAF - by N. Wu, Oct 1992 | |
| Guide to DOFIBERS | Guide to the Multifiber Reduction Task DOFIBERS - by F. Valdes, July 1995 | |
| Guide to DOHYDRA | Guide to the HYDRA Reduction Task DOHYDRA - by F. Valdes, July 1995 | |
| Guide to DONESSIE | Guide to the NESSIE Reduction Task DONESSIE - by F. Valdes, Sept 1990 | |
| Guide to DOARGUS | Guide to the ARGUS Reduction Task DOARGUS - by F. Valdes, Apr 1992 | |
| Package Specifications, Reference and Revisions | ||
| Photometry Using IRAF | Photometry Using IRAF - by L.A. Wells, Feb 1994 | |
| Specifications for APPHOT | Specifications for the Aperture Photometry Package - by L. Davis, Oct 1987 | |
| The IRAF CCD reduction Package | The IRAF CCD Reduction Package - by F. Valdes, Sept 1987 | |
| Overview of DTOI | Overview of the DTOI Package - by S.H. Jacoby - July 1988 | |
| IRAF Spectroscopy Packages | The IRAF Spectroscopy Reduction Packages and Tasks - by F. Valdes | |
| IMRED Package Revision | IMRED PAckage Revision Summary: IRAF Version 2.10 - by F. Valdes, Sept 1990 | |
| Reduction of Long-slit Spectra | Reduction of Long-slit Spectra with IRAF - by F. Valdes, Mar 1986 | |
| Some Notes on ONEDSPEC | Some Notes on the ONEDSPEC Package - by G. Jacoby, June 1985 | |
| ONEDSPEC Revisions | ONEDSPEC Package Revisions Summary: IRAF Version 2.10 - by F. Valdes, July 1990 | |
| Technical Papers | ||
| Optimal Extraction | A Quantitative Study of Optimal Extraction - by F. Valdes, July 1990 | |
| PSF Measuring Tasks | Psfmeasure/Starfocus: IRAF PSF Measuring Tasks - by F. Valdes | |
| The Spectral WCS | The IRAF/NOAO Spectral World Coordinate Systems - by F. Valdes | |
| IRAF Newsletters | ||
| IRAF Newsletter n.13 | IRAF Newsletter issue n. 13 - Dec 1994 | |
| IRAF Newsletter n.14 | IRAF Newsletter issue n. 14 - May 1998 | |
| Older Newsletters (1-12) | IRAF Newsletter issue n. 1 (June 86) to n. 12 (July 92) | |