I have been looking for time to make a smooth and clean IRAF installation. That’s when it came, and I wanted to note here how I installed the latest version of IRAF (NOAO/IRAF community V2.16.1+ snapshot) from GitHub on my computer. I hope it will help someone. In fact, everything is explained in detail here, and I took advantage of it. The usual way is to install IRAF under the root directory “/iraf/iraf“, but I didn’t do that. So I didn’t need system administrator rights for installation. I installed directly under my $HOME directory. XQuartz and ds9 must be installed on your system. You can find them on their website: […]
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My modest astrolib.
I decided to create a library from the codes that I use frequently. If it is useful for you, do not hesitate to use it. I also created a small documentation. You can access it here.
Read More →Terminating a shell script running in the background
Here is the best solution for killing “nohup procces” running in the background. Suppose that you have already started a process with nohup from terminal and want to kill it. After that list running processes in the background; Then kill listed process, For a more detailed solution, please click here.
Read More →A fast usage of tablist, fitscopy and fitshead
In this post, i wanted to take some notes about a few useful CFITSIO tools’ commands for myself. First of all you need to install cfitsio library into your OS. For OS X; For Debian Based GNU/Linux distributions; For RPM-based GNU/Linux distributions; I often have to deal with public astronomical catalogues and I have to fetch a certain part of the sky. In particular, I would prefer the FITS tables not images :). For this reason, I need a quick manipulation tool: CFITSIO – A FITS File Subroutine Library. Especially; tablist, fitscopy, listhead… listhead: It is very simple. List FITS file’s header&keywords… For whole header information: For a specific keyword: Example: Bring the catalogue’s […]
Read More →Connect your Raspberry Pi to Wireless Network Automatically
Do not worry, doing this job is actually easier than you think. Let’s see how: Firstly, in cases when you need to reset the default settings, backup your configuration files with command below; Then edit the -/etc/network/interfaces- file like following content (for auto dhcp/WPA-WPA2); If you want to assign static ip address to your RPi here the solution;) Finally reboot your device; Check your internet connection; That’s it! Reference: https://github.com/retropie/retropie-setup/wiki/Wifi
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