Advanced PANIC quick-look tool using Python

摘要

PANIC, the Panoramic Near Infrared Camera, is an instrument for the Calar Alto Observatory currently being integratedin laboratory and whose first light is foreseen for end 2012 or early 2013. We present here how the PANIC Quick-Looktool (PQL) and pipeline (PAPI) are being implemented, using existing rapid programming Python technologies andpackages, together with well-known astronomical software suites (Astromatic, IRAF) and parallel processing techniques.We will briefly describe the structure of the PQL tool, whose main characteristics are the use of the SQLite database andPyQt, a Python binding of the GUI toolkit Qt.© (2012) COPYRIGHT Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). Downloading of the abstract is permitted for personal use only.