Groningen Image Processing System
This is the home page of the GIPSY online documentation. GIPSY is a highly interactive software system for the reduction and display of astronomical data. This documentation is maintained by Hans Terlouw.

Document Search Service

In order to search, choose a document type. Then type one or more alphabetic strings in the input field and click on the "Search" button. The search will find the documents which contain all supplied strings (``AND'' searching). If exact matches on words are required, choose the `exact match' option.

Documentation topics:

• Documentation structure

• News about GIPSY (June 19, 2009: 64-bit support; code changes.)
• Document Search Facility

• What is GIPSY
• Download and Installation Guide
• Getting started
• Hermes, the user interface
• Ggi, the graphical user interface
• Data structure, GDS
  • error codes
• User input
• Image display: GIDS
• Getting help

• Recipes
• Categorized task list
• List of all tasks
• Supplementary Documentation

• Programming in GIPSY
  • Programmers Guide
  • Event-driven Tasks and Graphical User Interfaces
  • Programming (including scripting) in Python

• Plans and Activities (August 23, 2007)
• News Files and Error Reports

• GIPSY-related links:
  • WHISP survey project
    Westerbork observations of neutral Hydrogen in Irregular and SPiral galaxies.
  • IRAS Data Server
    The IRAS Data Server contains the full set of IRAS Survey data. Registered users can easily obtain images and spectra. (Located at Kapteyn, operated by SRON)
  • Data reduction software for MPE's 3D Imaging NIR Spectrometer.
    (Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik)

Contact information

For reporting problems with GIPSY software, you can either run the task REPORT or mail to gipsy@astro.rug.nl. This address can also be used for other questions, comments, etc. about GIPSY.

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