The purpose of tutorial I is to show users how to use the xguiphot task to quickly select, display, and examine the input image list with a view to making photometric measurements.
To being the tutorial type the following at the cl prompt:
cl> xgex1
After the gui is activated the first image in the input list, gcluster.fits, is displayed in the image display window, and the gui is ready for user input.
The tutorial is intented to be executed in sequence.
Examine the botton of the image display window. You should see the following message
Warning: image xapphot$data/gcluster.fits keyword: FILTERS
not found
highlighted in turquoise in the bottom "line" of the image display window. This region of the image display window is called the status line. It is used to print error messages, warning messages, status reports, and quick-look results. This particular message means that xguiphot searched for and failed to find the keyword FILTERS in the header of xapphot$data/gcluster.fits. Ignore the content of the warning message for now.
Move the mouse to the image display window and type CR. Examine the status line again. What happened ? The CR is an example of an accelerator keystroke whose function is to clear the status line. The same function can be performed less efficiently by moving to the Results menu and selecting the "Clear status line" item.
Examine the box in the upper left corner of the image display window. This box is called the files marker and it displays the current image name, the current input objects file, the results file logging status, and the current output results file. Note that results file logging is turned off.
To move the files marker to a different location:
1. move the mouse into the files marker
2. wait until the marker highlights and the cursor changes
shape to a small cross
3. press the left mouse button
4. drag the marker to a different position
5. release the left mouse button
To resize the files marker:
1. move the mouse to the lower right corner of the files marker
2. wait until the marker highlights and the cursor changes
shape to a small box with arrows
3. press the left mouse button
4. drag the marker corner slightly upward and to the left
5. release the left mouse button
To delete the files marker:
1. move the mouse into the files marker
2. wait until the marker highlights and the cursor changes
shape to a small cross
3. hit the Delete key
or
3. press the right mouse button
4. select the "Dismiss marker" item
To redisplay the files marker:
1. move the mouse to the Images menu button
2. move to the Options submenu
3. select the "Show files marker" item
Examine the box in the lower right hand corner of the image display window. This is the coordinates marker. The coordinates marker displays the image pixel coordinates of the mouse when it is in the image display window. Move the mouse around the image display window. What happens to the displayed coordinates ?
The coordinates marker can be moved, resized, and deleted in the same manner as the files marker. To redisplay the coordinates marker:
1. move the mouse to the Images menu button
2. select the Options submenu
3. select the "Show coords marker" item from the options submenu
The default image display window cursor is a small circle. In some cases the cross-hair cursor may be more useful. To change the default cursor from circle to cross-hair and vice versa:
1. move the mouse to the Images menu button
2. select the Options submenu
3. select the "Show crosshair" item
or
3. select the "Dismiss crosshair" item
By default the xguiphot image display code fills the viewport in the largest image dimension while preserving the aspect ratio.
To zoom in:
1. move the mouse into the image display
2. click twice on the middle mouse button
To zoom out:
1. move the mouse into the image display
2. click twice on the middle mouse button while holding down
the Shift key
To return to the original display:
1. move the mouse into the image display
2. click once on the middle mouse button while holding down
the Control key
To pan the image:
1. move the mouse into the image display
2. click once on the middle mouse button
To window the image display:
1. move the mouse into the image display
2. press down on the right mouse button while moving the mouse
in the image display window
The xguiphot image display window is a gterm widget, i.e. the same widget used by the IRAF xgterm and ximtool programs. Therefore the xguiphot image display window and all the other xguiphot graphics windows, support with a few caveats, full IRAF cursor mode. This means that it is possible to zoom, pan, expand the display, make snaps (but see below), etc using the default IRAF cursor keystroke commands, just as one can for any standard IRAF task.
The most useful cursor keys are the following:
C # Print coordinates at position of cursor E,E # Expand the plot M # Pan P # Zoom out Z # Zoom in 0 # Reset and redraw
Users should be aware that the simple = and :.snap commands do not currently work properly for the image display window. A workaround is being prepared for this. The = and :.snap do work correctly from all the xguiphot vector graphics windows.
This facility is not yet supported.
To browse the image list sequentially either:
1. move the mouse to the Images menu button
2. select the "Next image" or "Previous image" items
or simply
1. move to the image display window
2. type n or p keystroke commands to move forwards or backwards
through the image list
Note that as each image is displayed the file marker and status line are automatically updated. When is the coordinates marker updated ?
To determine the sequence number of the current image:
1. move to the image display window
2. type ":imnumber" follwed by CR
The current image number will be printed in the status line marker. Try it.
To redisplay the first image in the input image list:
1. move to the image display window
2. type ":imnumber 1" follwed by CR
To view the entire image list at once or to browse the image list randomly either:
1. move the mouse to the Files menu button
2. Select the "Files panel ..." item
or
1. move the mouse to the image display window
2. type the $ keystroke command
The files panel displays the input image, input objects file, and output results file default directories and templates, the input image and input objects file lists, and the output results file. The current image and input objects file are highlighted in their respective lists.
To select and display a new current image:
1. move to the image list in the files panel
2. click once on the desired image name
The new image will be displayed in the image display window and the files marker and status line will update.
Note that the default input objects file and output results file also change automatically when a new input image is selected.
To redisplay the current image from scratch using the default display parameters:
1. move the mouse to the Images menu button
2. select the "Current image" item
or
1. move the mouse to the image display window
2. type the i keystroke command
For most astronomical images the default image display parameters are optimal. However in rare cases users may need to alter the default spatial and intensity mapping parameters.
To alter the the intensity mapping parameters for the test image xapphot$data/n5194.fits, bring up the Files panel and select image xapphot$data/n5194.fits as described in the previous section, and:
1. move the mouse to the Images menu button
2. pelect the "Dispars pset" item
The dispars parameter editing panel will appear.
Change the dztransform parameter from "linear" to "log", the dzlimits parameter from "median" to "image", and dz1 and dz2 from INDEF and INDEF, to 90 and 7000.0 respectively, as follows
1. move to the dztransform entry box
2. select the "log" item
3. move to the dzlimits entry box
4. select the "image" item
5. move to the dz1 entry box
6. type backspace repeatedly to delete the existing entry
7. type in the new value and press CR
8. repeat steps 5-7 for dz2
Note that instead of typing backspace to delete characters backwards, it is possible to position the text cursor at the beginning of the original text, press the left mouse button, and type Control k to delete the entire entry at once.
At this point the altered parameter values and the Apply button label should be displayed in white. This means the new parameter values have not yet been written to memory. To cancel the last set of changes press the Cancel button, otherwise press the Apply button followed by the Display button to redisplay the image with the new parameters. Window the image display to taste using the right mouse button.
The log transform and image limits algorithm permit the user to look more deeply into the center of the galaxy. However this transform is not very useful for the other images in the list, so press Unlearn to set all the dispars parameters back to their default values, press Display to redisplay the image, and press Dismiss to dismiss the dispars parameter editing panel.
To examine the header of the current image:
1. move the mouse to the Images menu button
2. select the "Display header" item
or
1. move the mouse to the image display window
2. type the h keystroke command
Examine the image header by using the scroll bars.
To step sequentially forwards or backwards through the image list press the Next or Prev buttons on the image header display panel and examine the displayed headers.
The image header display panel can be used to correlate the contents of the image header with the warning messages which appear in the status line when the image is displayed. For example xguiphot complains that the expected keyword FILTERS cannot be found in the header of image xapphot$data/gcluster.fits. Examining the header reveals that the image is an artificial image created with the artdata package which did not put a FILTERS keyword into the image header.
The status line can only display a single line of text. By default xguiphot tries to read 6 keywords from the image header: RDNOISE, GAIN, EXPTIME, AIRMASS, FILTERS, and UT. AIRMASS, FILTERS, and UT are not actually used in the analysis but are read from the image header and written to the output results files. Their values default to INDEF, INDEF, and INDEF if they are not found in the image headers. EXPTIME is used to normalize the computed instrumental magnitude scale and defaults to 1.0. GAIN and RDNOISE (actually only GAIN in most cases) are used to normalize the computed mangitude errors, and default to 1.0 and 0.0 if not found in the image header.
To check that xguiphot is reading the correct values of the required keywords from the image headers:
1. move the mouse to the image display window
2. type :imnumber 1
3. move the mouse to the Images menu button
4. select the "Impars pset" item
Examine the values of the ireadnoise and igain parameters. Are these 0.0 and 1.0 or are the values different. What about the ietime parameter? Is it 1 or some other number, and does this number agree with what is in the image header? Similarly what about iairmass, ifilter, and iotime? Are these values INDEF or are they real values?
Moving to the next image by typing n in the image display window and and watch the values of above parameters change. Do they look correct ?
Quit tutorial I by pressing the Quit button.