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IMAGER for previous users of [rgb]1,0,0MAPPING

[rgb]1,0,0IMAGER offers a number of advantages against [rgb]1,0,0MAPPING : higher speed, simpler and more consistent user interface, integrated pipeline processing, and a number of improved image analysis tools. However, the principles have not changed. Most commands remain quasi identical in [rgb]1,0,0IMAGER and [rgb]1,0,0MAPPING, with basically the same control parameters.

Actions which were driven by widgets have often been replaced by simple commands (with intuitive names). A quick look at the magentaHELP will guide you to the commands that will do what widgets were doing before. So you can skip over the fundamentals, and focus on the new tools offered by [rgb]1,0,0IMAGER. In practice, for you, commands will make fairly reasonable choices of default parameters. Just do not forget to magentaWRITE your data.

In short, the biggest changes for [rgb]1,0,0MAPPING users are
- the lack of use of the magentaGO command, and thus of the blueNAME and blueTYPE variables
- the suppression of blueMAP_RA blueMAP_DEC blueMAP_ANGLE and blueUV_SHIFT which have been replaced by blueMAP_CENTER
- the replacement of all tasks by simpler, standard commands.

Changing the defaults may be needed only for practical reasons:

The names of variables and most commands have been kept from [rgb]1,0,0MAPPING, old names appear in the magentaHELP whenever they have been replaced.



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