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Leopard User's Guide

The Leopard User's Guide is designed to assist you in using Leopard. Hardware and software requirements, installation information, and details of how to use Leopard are to be found in this document. Answers to questions users may have about how Leopard will allow you to retrieve your proprietary or public Spitzer observations can be found here. Answers to detailed questions about the science instruments on-board Spitzer and how they operate are answered in the Spitzer Observer's Manual.

Getting the Document

All files are in PDF Format.
Some figures may not display well on some monitors, but should print satisfactorily.

See also the Spitzer Pride software page for Release Notes and Known Bugs/Issues.

Getting the Software

To download the Spitzer Pride Software itself, see the Spitzer Pride download page.

Document Organization

The Leopard User's Guide contains these major elements:
  • Introduction
  • This release of Leopard
  • Minimum Recommended Hardware Configurations
  • Operating System Configurations Supported
  • Installing and Starting Leopard - Part of Spitzer Pride
  • General Information
  • Leopard Menus
  • Leopard Main Screen
  • Target and AOR Visualization
  • An example Leopard Session - Querying the Spitzer Archive
There is an on-line Known Bugs List on the software page with a list of the known software bugs and suggested workarounds.

Document Update Plans

The Leopard User's Guide will be updated with every major release of the software, expected to occur at least with every Spitzer Call for Proposals.

The on-line Known Bugs List on the software page will be updated when a reported bug is confirmed. Possible workarounds are included in this List.

Other Relevant Documents

There are a number of documents and links useful for downloading and analyzing Spitzer data:

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This file was last modified on Wed Jun 18 16:27:42 2008.

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