<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> <!--Converted with LaTeX2HTML 98.1p1 release (March 2nd, 1998) originally by Nikos Drakos (nikos@cbl.leeds.ac.uk), CBLU, University of Leeds * revised and updated by: Marcus Hennecke, Ross Moore, Herb Swan * with significant contributions from: Jens Lippmann, Marek Rouchal, Martin Wilck and others --> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Getting Started</TITLE> <META NAME="description" CONTENT="Getting Started"> <META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="vol2"> <META NAME="resource-type" CONTENT="document"> <META NAME="distribution" CONTENT="global"> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <LINK REL="STYLESHEET" HREF="vol2.css"> <LINK REL="next" HREF="node505.html"> <LINK REL="previous" HREF="node501.html"> <LINK REL="up" HREF="node501.html"> <LINK REL="next" HREF="node503.html"> </HEAD> <BODY > <!--Navigation Panel--> <A NAME="tex2html7738" HREF="node503.html"> <IMG WIDTH="37" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="next" SRC="icons.gif/next_motif.gif"></A> <A NAME="tex2html7735" HREF="node501.html"> <IMG WIDTH="26" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="up" SRC="icons.gif/up_motif.gif"></A> <A NAME="tex2html7729" HREF="node501.html"> <IMG WIDTH="63" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="previous" SRC="icons.gif/previous_motif.gif"></A> <A NAME="tex2html7737" HREF="node1.html"> <IMG WIDTH="65" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="contents" SRC="icons.gif/contents_motif.gif"></A> <BR> <B> Next:</B> <A NAME="tex2html7739" HREF="node503.html">Set the context</A> <B> Up:</B> <A NAME="tex2html7736" HREF="node501.html">A Typical Session: Cook-book</A> <B> Previous:</B> <A NAME="tex2html7730" HREF="node501.html">A Typical Session: Cook-book</A> <BR> <BR> <!--End of Navigation Panel--> <H2><A NAME="SECTION003031000000000000000"> Getting Started</A> </H2> <P> In the following description of a typical session, the spectrum to be analysed is assumed to have previously been corrected for bias, dark current and flat field and to be oriented so that the direction of dispersion is along the X-axis (wavelength increasing horizontally to the right). <P> <BR><HR> <!--Table of Child-Links--> <A NAME="CHILD_LINKS"> </A> <UL> <LI><A NAME="tex2html7740" HREF="node503.html">Set the context</A> <LI><A NAME="tex2html7741" HREF="node504.html">Initializing keywords</A> </UL> <!--End of Table of Child-Links--> <BR><HR> <ADDRESS> <I>Petra Nass</I> <BR><I>1999-06-15</I> </ADDRESS> </BODY> </HTML>