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Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph Instrument Handbook for Cycle 21 > Chapter 11: Data Taking
Chapter 11:
Data Taking
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
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