Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph Instrument Handbook for Cycle 17

Chapter 11:
Data Taking

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11.1 Basic Operating Modes
    11.1.1 CCD ACCUM Mode
    11.1.2 MAMA ACCUM Mode
    11.1.3 MAMA TIME-TAG Mode
11.2 Exposure Sequences and Contemporaneous
Calibrations
    11.2.1 Auto-Wavecals
    11.2.2 CR-SPLIT
    11.2.3 Fringe Flat Fields
    11.2.4 Repeat Exposures
11.3 Patterns and Dithering
    11.3.1 STIS Imaging Patterns
    11.3.2 STIS Spectroscopic Patterns
    11.3.3 Generic Patterns
    11.3.4 Combining Patterns
    11.3.5 Dither Strategies
11.4 Fixing Orientation on the Sky