LRIS (Low Resolution Imaging Spectrograph)

Making Slitmasks

Making slitmasks is a painful, but unfortunately necessary, part of observing with LRIS is Multi-Object Spectrograph (MOS) mode. At present, the most trusted program to design LRIS slitmasks is Autoslit v3.20.

Autoslit Installation

A guide to its installation can be found here.

Requirements for Autoslit include:

  • PGPLOT 5.1 (or greater)
  • C and FORTRAN compilers
Autoslit Usage

You can find Autoslit's user manual here or in the location Autoslit was installed.

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