SARA KP spectrograph operation

Technical aspect of using the reduction python codes

1. How to install the Google File Stream to access raw data on a Google Drive

2. How to install Python Anaconda and jupyter notebooks

3. How to launch the Jupyter "tree" from (i) the command line, (ii) other ways you guys are using?

4. How to launch the terminal to run the python script in the command line

5. How to navigate to a specific folder in the command line.

6. Multiple ways to create arrays of filenames (for the Master calibration data and the Master science data notebooks)

7. Multiple ways to create the assignment table for the composite trace information

Creating observing logs and reduction logs for a new observing night

1. How to use the python code to get a full list of observations

2. Guidelines to write a reduction log

Calibration for an observing night

 Preliminary information necessary for the observing log

1. Master calibration data  (Troubleshooting)

2. Master science data (can be useful to trace the orders)

3. Identify the orders

4. Trace the orders

5. Subtract the scattered light from the flat fields

6. Extract the estimated blaze

7. Extract the ThAr and evaluate the stability overnight

8. Adjusts the line identification

9. Create the wavelength scale

Science exposures

Preliminary information necessary for the observing log

1. Extract the missing Master science data (if they were not already done in the Calibration step).

2. Remove the scattered light

3. Extract the spectra

4. Combine the flux with the appropriate wavelength calibration and data headers. 

5. Perform flux calibration or blaze correction

6. Perform continuum normalization

MISC

1. How to create a new line identification reference file