IRAF, PyRAF, and
STSDAS are provided free of charge to the astronomical community. You can down load the
IRAF software from
http://iraf.noao.edu/. Instructions on how to download and install
PyRAF can be found online:
You must have IRAF or
PyRAF installed on your system in order to run
STSDAS. Detailed information about downloading and installing
STSDAS is found at the following page:
If you have any problems getting and installing STSDAS,
TABLES,
PyRAF, or any other STScI packages or data described in this handbook, please contact the Help Desk by sending e-mail to:
help@stsci.edu.
These pre-release versions are updated weekly to include new code and bug fixes which have not been extensively tested or verified for accuracy by the Institute. They also require a very different installation procedure and can be installed without root access, but are only provided as binaries for the Mac OSX Leopard and Linux Red Hat Enterprise 4 operating systems.
This handbook sometimes refers to the synphot data set, which must be available in order to run tasks in the
STSDAS synphot package (see
Section 3.4.4). The package is included with the
STSDAS installation, but the corresponding data set must be retrieved and installed separately. Instructions on how to obtain and install the
synphot data set can be found at: