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Downloading the data

Download the data by running cda.py:

cda.py ngc 6500

Files to be downloaded:

evt2

evt1

asol

flt1

bpix1

aoff

cda.html does not exist, requesting data list from asc.harvard.edu

Placed request, downloading web page...

etc.

and a file with a name similar to retrieve_416_3242.tar will be downloaded. Now untar it in a raw data directory:

mkdir rawdata

cd rawdata

tar xvf ../retrieve_416_3242.tar

cd ../



Andy Ptak 2006-07-03