November 1995                               Volume 3, No. 10


IUE DATA ANALYSIS CENTER  NEWSLETTER




This is an electronic  newsletter  edited  by the IUE Data
Analysis Center (IUEDAC)intended to inform the numerous remote
and local users of the IUEDAC software of recent 
software updates and project changes.




 
RESOURCES FOR 19th EPISODE GUEST OBSERVERS 

19th episode guest observers should contact the 
VILSPA RA assigned to their program for information 
regarding 19th episode observations. This information 
can be found at the 
19th 
Episode WWW homepage maintained by the VILSPA staff at 
http://www.vilspa.esa.es/iue/iue19th.html. 
This page contains a wealth of other information 
regarding the 19th episode including:



IUE Observing Log of the 19th episode ordered by 
coordinates 

List of Approved IUE Proposals for the 19th Episode (38 
Kbytes)

Contact RAs for approved IUE proposals (42 Kbytes) 

Observing Restrictions (9 Kbytes) 

Data Distribution Policy 

How to Handle IUE Data



Observers may also obtain assistance from Dr. Rich Arquilla 
in the IUEDAC. Rich can be contacted at 
arquilla@iuedac.gsfc.nasa.gov or (301)-261-8060.
US observers should take note that the node address 
they have used in the past for operations personnel, 
iuesoc.gsfc.nasa.gov, is no longer active.







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 IUEDAC SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE UPDATES 



Recent Software Changes:

01-Nov   A new version of LABEL was implemented which 
         prevents the display of spurious error messages. 
         Also, the stsflag.txt file was updated
         in iue$user1:[iuerdaf.manuals] to describe 
         the latest NEWSIPS status flags.

07-Nov   A new version of WEIGHT was implemented which 
         corrects a bug with the sigma keyword. Also, a 
         new FITS reading routine called IUE3DROW
         was added to the experimental library which 
         allows a row of a binary table extension to be 
         stored in an IDL structure.



NOTICE: The IDL MOUNT and DISMOUNT commands available 
        in IDL 3.6 for mounting tapes on VMS systems are 
        not available in newer versions of IDL. The VMS 
        mount and dismount commands may be used instead
        from outside of IDL. See a member of the IUEDAC 
        staff if you have any problems.






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 IUE IMAGE PROCESSING NEWS 


 NEWSIPS STATUS 

The IPC has now processed all of the available NASA 
SWP and LWP low dispersion data.  Data which are 
still proprietary have not yet been processed through
NEWSIPS, but this will be done as data become 
publicly accessible.  Some images have not been 
processed because of missing database information or 
other problems.  We are currently working on getting 
those images taken care of and processed. Note also that 
we are not processing VILSPA data; VILSPA is doing so.

If you need images that seem unavailable, please 
contact Cathy Imhoff (301-794-1470, or 
imhoff@iuegtc.gsfc.nasa.gov).  She can check on 
them and in many cases fix the problem so that 
the images can be processed. 

 NEWSIPS DATA AVAILABILITY

Recently NSSDC has placed a large volume of NEWSIPS 
data into the NDADS system.  If you have been trying 
to get some images which are listed as processed but 
not yet available from NDADS, you may wish to try again.

 




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LAST CHANCE: OLD USER ACCOUNTS ON TAPE 

The IUE Data Analysis Center has VMS Backup tapes 
for its USER accounts dating back to 1988.  Those 
older than September 1994 are 9-track tapes.  
ON DECEMBER 1, 1995, THE 9 TRACK TAPES WILL BE BOXED 
AND RECYCLED. Users who want their files restored 
from these tapes should contact us before that time.  
This pertains only to accounts USER1 through USER60
at the times that these accounts were recycled 
(i.e., backed up and then cleared for disposition 
to new users).  






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Editor:                       Dr. Michael Carini 
Contributors:                 Mr. Randy Thompson  
                              Ms. Lyla Taylor
                              Dr. Cathy Imhoff
                              Dr. Richard Arquilla




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