Show synop
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Purpose
show_synop is a SolarSoftware IDL widget that incorporates searching the Virtual Solar Observatory (VSO), pre-processing, and displaying capabilities into one graphical user interface (GUI). Also see RHESSI Nugget N° 131 Cloudy SolarSoftware.
Requirements
- Up-to-date SSW gen tree, installation and download instructions
- If using remote pre-processing capabilities
- IDL 6.4 or later
- Sun Java 1.5
Description
; Routine syntax show_synop, plotman=plotman
The plotman keyword is optional.
| Keyword | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| plotman | This keyword allows sharing or reusing plotman (e.g. between an active plotman window and show_synop) | p=plotman(/nopanel) & show_synop, plotman=p |
show_synop main widget
- Done closes show_synop, GOES Workbench opens a separate widget that allows for GOES data visualization, and Configure shows the show_synop configuration options (see #show_synop configuration widget).
- Start Time, End Time, and remote sites-> are used for the time and instrument based search that is started by clicking on the Search button. The drop-down list at remote sites -> shows all currently supported instruments. A click on the button # Sub-intervals: 0 opens an GOES light-curve based search.
- The box showing *** Press "Search" to list filenames *** lists the search results. The list shows file name, observation time, wavelength, and file size. The sorting can be changed to Filename, Decreasing Date, and Increasing Date.
- View Header allows you to view the FITS header of a selected file. The Display button will pre-process the selected data file locally (if the instrument software is installed) or remotely using the PrepServer; show_synop will automatically assign the pre-processed data file a name (prepped_ + original file name). Pre-processed data is then displayed it with PLOTMAN. To remove a data file from the local hard disk click on Delete.
- This text box indicates the current working directory. Change allows browsing to another folder on the local hard disk.
- This is a list of all files in the selected working directory (see bullet N° 5).
show_synop configuration widget
- This allows saving the current search settings. The next time show_synop is started a search is automatically executed with those saved settings.
- Saying Yes will cause show_synop to keep search results in a cache. show_synop will returned the cached search results rather than sending a request to the VSO. Use Clear current cache if you want to receive updated search results.
- Say No to prevent accidental overwriting of data.
- By default level-0 data is downloaded and only pre-processed on demand. Saying Yes will cause show_synop to send a request for remote pre-processing to the PrepServer before downloading data. Using this option may save time and bandwidth.
- By default the PrepServer remote pre-processing service is automatically called if a data file has not been pre-processed and the instrument software is not present on the local computer. Saying No will cause show_synop to display the unprocessed data file rather than sending it to the PrepServer.
- Saying No will cause show_synop to display data in a standard IDL plot window.
- [Experimental] Some instrument pre-processing calls can be configured in a separate widget before a "prep" request is sent to the PrepServer.
Troubleshooting
Resetting show_synop
- show_synop creates a personal settings file preserving your show_synop settings. This file is called .show_synop_config and is located in %tmp% (Windows) or $HOME (Mac/Linux/Unix). To reset show_synop, close the show_synop widget and then delete the settings file.
- show_synop can be configured to keep search results in a cache (see #show_synop configuration widget). Clearing this cache will casue show_synop to refresh search results. Use this if search results do not seem accurate.
