Contents

• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Introduction
  • How to use the MIDAS Manual
    • New Users
    • Site Specific Features
  • General Concept of MIDAS
  • Distribution Policy
  • Support
  • Requirements for Running MIDAS
    • Hardware
    • Software
  • Other Relevant Documents
• Cook-Book
  • Terminology
  • Commands
  • Getting Started
    • Simple MIDAS Session
    • Exit and Logout
    • Executing System Commands
    • Some Useful Commands
• Monitor and Command Language
  • Starting the MIDAS Monitor
  • MIDAS And the Host Operating System
  • MIDAS Data Structures
    • Specifying a Descriptor
    • Specifying Keywords
    • Specifying Elements in a Table
    • Specifying Pixels in an Image
  • Command Syntax
    • Command Recalling
    • Command Line Editing
    • Command Line Suspension
    • On--Line Help
    • Output Redirection in Midas
  • Execution of Commands
  • MIDAS Command Language
    • Passing Parameters in MIDAS Procedures
    • Symbol Substitution in Command Procedures
    • DO Loops
    • Local Keywords
    • Conditional Statements, Branching
    • Special Functions
    • Interrupting Procedures
    • Entry points
  • Context Levels
  • Running a Program within MIDAS
    • Debugging of Procedures and Modules
  • Catalogs in MIDAS
    • Using Catalogs in MIDAS Procedures
  • Adapting MIDAS to your personal needs
  • MIDAS User Levels
• Data Structures
• Table File System
  • Tables in Image Processing
  • Structure of Tables
  • Input/Output of Tables
  • Management of Tables
    • Definition of Tables
    • Displaying Tables
    • Modification of Tables
    • Interactive Editing of Tables
  • Operations on Tables
  • Command Overview
    • List of Commands
  • Table Format Files
  • Example
• Graphic and Image Display
  • Graphic Facilities
    • Introduction
    • Graphic Devices
    • General Commands
      • SET/GRAPHIC and SHOW/GRAPHIC
      • ASSIGN/GRAPHIC and COPY/GRAPHIC
    • Plot Commands
      • Plotting and overplotting axes
      • PLOT and OVERPLOT commands for plotting data
      • Plotting text, symbols, and lines
    • Graphic Cursor Commands
    • Handling of Plotfiles
    • Encapsulated PostScript Files
    • Examples
    • Command Summary
  • Image Displays
    • IP8500 display
      • Using Image Memories
      • Look--Up Tables
      • Intensity Transformation Tables
      • Using the Cursors
      • Graphics
      • Alphanumerics
      • True Colour or RGB Operations
    • XWindow display
      • Using Image Memories
      • Using the Cursors
      • Look--Up Tables
      • Intensity Transformation Tables
      • Graphics
      • Alphanumerics
      • Command Interruption
      • Graphical User Interface -- XDisplay
    • Image Hardcopy
• Data Exchange Format
  • FITS Format
    • Structure of FITS files
    • FITS data-types and extensions
    • FITS keywords
      • Standard keywords
      • Non-standard keywords
      • Hierarchical keywords
    • Restrictions
  • IHAP Format
    • Translation of IHAP header
    • Restrictions
  • Conversion between FITS and internal format
    • Devices
    • File naming
    • Reading FITS
    • Writing FITS
• References
• Fitting of Data
  • Outline of the Available Methods
    • The Newton--Raphson Method.
    • The Modified Gauss--Newton Method.
    • The Quasi--Newton Method.
    • The Corrected Gauss--Newton No Derivatives.
  • Function Specification
  • External Functions
  • The Fitting Process.
  • Outputs
  • Tutorial
  • Command Summary
  • Basic Functions
    • Polynomials (1D and 2D)
    • Logarithmic and Exponential Function
    • Trigonometric Functions
    • Sinc and Sinc Square
    • Distributions
  • References
• Command Summary
  • Core Commands
  • Application Commands
  • Standard Reduction Commands
    • ccd
    • do
    • echelle
    • irac2
    • irspec
    • long
    • optopus
    • pisco
    • spec
  • Contributed Commands
    • astromet
    • cloud
    • daophot
    • esolv
    • geotest
    • invent
    • mva
    • pepsys
    • romafot
    • surfphot
    • tsa
  • Procedure Control Commands
  • Commands Grouped by Subject
    • MIDAS System Control
    • Tape Input and Output
    • Image Directory and Header
    • Image Display
    • Graphics Display
    • Image Coordinates
    • Coordinate Transformation of Images
    • Image Arithmetic
    • Filtering
    • Image Creation and Extraction
    • Transformations on Pixel Values
    • Numerical Values of Image Pixels
    • Spectral Analysis
    • Least Squares Fitting
    • Table File Operations
• Acknowledgements
  • General
  • Packages and Commands
  • Libraries
    • AGL
    • IDI
  • Manual
• Site Specific Implementation
  • Hardware Setup
    • UNIX Workstations
    • Printer and Plotter Queues
    • X11 Window systems
    • Film Hardcopy
      • Film print queues
      • Processing of Film Hardcopies
    • Tape I/O
  • Operating Systems
    • Login Procedures
  • Data Format Compatibility
• Release Notes
  • Current Status
  • Installation
  • Software Modifications
  • Manual Updates
  • Use of NAG Library
• Index
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