Retrieving Proprietary Spitzer data with Leopard

1. Start up Leopard.

2. Click on the green lock icon and log in using the username and password emailed to you by the SSC. Look for mail from "help@spitzer.caltech.edu". Be sure we are not being filtered out by your spam filters!

3. Click on the "Q" button for "query." Search by program id (PID) to obtain all of the data for your program. For this example, search on PID 102, a GTO program from Mike Werner. If you follow this example verbatim, because the data from pid 102 are not yet public, all of the AORs that are still proprietary will be greyed out and unselectable. (see figure.)

4. Find the AOR you want in the list of returned AORs.

5. Select the wavelengths you want, and the kind of data you want. Click on the little diskette icon to begin the download. It will launch something called the "Subscriber" to manage the download.

6. Wait for the download to finish. The Leopard subscriber is smart enough to pick up where it leaves of if there is a network hiccup mid-transfer.

7. Unzip the files that Leopard puts on your disk. For example,
   

   unzip P0148-_MIPS-S179-part-01.zip
   unzip P0148-_MIPS-S179-part-02.zip
   unzip P0148-_MIPS-S179-part-03.zip
   unzip P0148-_MIPS-S179-part-04.zip

8. What are all these files? Check out these pages:
   • Data filenaming conventions for all Spitzer data
     • IRAC
     • IRS
     • MIPS-24
     • MIPS-70
     • MIPS-160
   • Data Handbooks for all Spitzer data
     • IRAC
     • IRS
     • MIPS

Obtain AOR using Spot (optional but useful if truly new at this)

1. Start up Spot
2. From the file menu choose 'view program' and download pid 102 (or your program) This will retrieve all of the AORs corresponding to this program.
3. Find the AOR pertaining to whatever observation you'd like to work with first. Click on any column heading to sort the list by that column.
4. Use Spot's visualization capability (see the Observation Planning Cookbook, nearly any chapter, for step-by-step instructions; the results are in the figure below) to visualize your AOR. Each one of the frames you see portrayed in the visualization results in a DCE, or Data Collection Event, or a set of files on your disk.

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