User Guide

• Data Download Utilities
  • Downloading Necessary Data
• Metrics Analysis Framework (MAF)
  • List of Available Metrics
    • Core LSST MAF metrics
    • Contributed maf_contrib metrics
• Moving Objects
• Phot Utils
• Satellite Constellations
• Self Calibration
• Visit Sequence Archive
  • Introduction
  • Preparing the environment
  • Running the simulation
  • Adding entries to the visit sequence archive
    • Setting up the environment for the archive
    • Make a simple utility shell function
    • Adding an entry for pre-existing visits to the archive
    • Adding the simulation
• Prenight simulations
  • Generating new pre-night simulations and adding them to the archive
    • Introduction
    • Running a standard set of pre-night simulations
    • Automated runs of prenight simulations
    • Updating the versions of the scripts
    • Custom runs of prenight simulations
      • Preparation of the environment
      • Get completed visits
      • Create pickles of the objects you need to run the simulation
      • Run the simulation
      • Add the simulation to the S3 bucket and metadata database
      • Update the indexes of prenight simulations
  • Retrieving indexes of prenight simulations
  • Retrieving the table of visits for a simulation
  • Retrieving the latest nominal prenight simulation for a night
• Skybrightness