FIESTool

The starting up of FIESTool in quick-look mode used during observations has been simplified. The plan is to make the startup fully automatic as part of the startup of the FIES observing system. In this way we can also ensure that all the observations are reduced on the fly. This is part of our plan to add as a service the automatically reduced data of the observations to the copy of the raw data we provide to the observers.

A section was added to the FIESTool web page on how to achieve the best accuracy of the FIES wavelength solution, what IRAF parameters to use to achieve this, and how to set these parameters. Also, a link was added to some MIDAS scripts (written by Andreas Irrgang, University of Erlangen, Bamberg), that can be used to reduce FIES data in the MIDAS environment. These scripts are not maintained by NOT staff.

The master order-definition and master wavelength-solution frames for FIESTool were updated a few times due to the problems with the detector, as pumping of the detector often leads to shifts of the Echellogram on the order of several pixels.

A very minor update of FIESTool was released that fixes the version checking when looking for dependencies for PyRAF (versions 1.10 and later).