
hi christian,

The path you need depends on the machine type, either:

/h/eugene/src/ohana/bin/linux  or  /h/eugene/src/ohana/bin/sol

(the linux version is usually a little more up to date, but both
should work just fine for you). 

you also need to copy the following files to you home directory:

 ~dougados/.ptolemyrc
 ~eugene/.statusrc

The configuration scheme is much too complex to go into here, but
basically, the first defines the location of certain data, and in this
case, by choosing Catherine's .ptolemyrc file, you'll be looking at
the Taurus data by default, instead of the archive analysis I've been
running.  

The second file defines various macros for you, in particular
'ecliptic' and 'galactic', which draw the ecliptic and galactic
planes.  

start the program by running 'status'.  It is command-line driven, and
has some limited help files.  type '?' to see a list of commands and
'help' to get a list of help files.  

I think most things you'd want to do, you can do.  In some cases the
syntax can be a little cumbersome.  To get you started, here is a
macro to generate a box from (10,20) to (15,25), with an offset.
this could be more easily done by loading the reference coordinates
from a file with the 'data (filename)' and 'read' commands.  I'll try
to help you figure things out when you have had a chance to play with
it a bit.

gene

the syntax for somr
macro skybox
 create ra 0 2
 set ra = ra * 0
 set dec = ra * 0
 concat {10+$1} ra 
 concat {15+$1} ra 
	      
 concat {15+$1} ra 
 concat {15+$1} ra 
	      
 concat {15+$1} ra 
 concat {10+$1} ra 
	      
 concat {10+$1} ra 
 concat {10+$1} ra 

 concat {20+$2}  dec
 concat {20+$2}  dec
       	       
 concat {20+$2}  dec
 concat {25+$2}  dec
       	       
 concat {25+$2}  dec
 concat {25+$2}  dec
       	       
 concat {25+$2}  dec
 concat {20+$2}  dec

 style -x 2 -c red -lw 3 -pt 100
 cplot ra dec
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