Using APT for HST: Videos and Documentation
Since APT is highly graphical, the best way to learn it is to watch someone use it. So we have provided a series of short training movies to demonstrate the APT tools — feedback from GOs shows the movies are highly recommended. There are also equivalent text documents which should be helpful for printing, and quick reference.
General APT Training Materials
Title | Text | Movie |
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General Overview of APT GUI | Yes | 6 mins. |
Annotated Snapshot of the GUI Features | Yes | - |
Editing with the Tree Editor | - | 3.5 mins. |
Using the new Find feature | - | 3.5 mins. |
Reviewing Diagnostics | Yes | 4.5 mins |
The Differencing Tool | - | 5.5 mins |
Phase I Specific APT Training Materials
Note: The Phase I Proposal Roadmap contains all of these links in a high level step-by-step proposal writing procedure.
itle | Text | Movie |
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Phase I Getting Started in APT | Yes | 11.5 mins. |
How to Analyze Scheduling Constraints with APT | Yes | 6.5 mins. |
How to Ingest Fixed Targets in Phase I | Yes | - |
Aladin Interface Training Materials
Aladin is the tool for visualizing exposures in APT. We highly recommend the movies below so you can become familiar with Aladin's conventions.
itle | Text | Movie |
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Using Aladin with APT in Phase I | Yes | 8.5 mins. |
Creating mosaics in Phase I | Yes | 5 mins. |
Using HLA with Aladin | Yes | 3.5 mins. |
Using Aladin with APT in Phase II | Yes | 6.5 mins. |
Measuring/updating orientations | - | 1.5 mins. |
Creating Pos Targ offsets | Yes | 2 mins. |
Reviewing/updating patterns | Yes | 1.5 mins. |
Visualizing the path of a moving target observation | Yes | - |
Using the Aladin Multiview Function | - | 1.5 mins. |
Phase II Specific APT Training Materials
Note: The Phase II Proposal Roadmap contains all of these links in a high level step-by-step proposal writing procedure.
itle | Text | Movie |
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Getting started in Phase II | Yes | 9.5 mins. |
Understanding the Phase II PDF Proposal Preview | Yes | - |
Running the Orbit Planner | Yes | 5.5 min |
Annotated Snapshot of the Orbit Planner Features | Yes | - |
Running the Visit Planner | Yes | 4 mins. |
Annotated Snapshot of the Visit Planner Features | Yes | - |
Changing Orbit Numbers & Actual Durations in Sub-exposures | Yes | 7 mins. |
Using the Auto-adjust Feature for Orbit Packing | Yes | 4 mins. |
Creating Multi Visit Mosaics | - | 8 mins. |
Creating Patterns | Yes | 3 mins. |
Creating Coordinated Parallel Observations | Yes | 2 mins. |
Cheat sheet for dealing with parallel buffer dumps | Yes | - |
Creating Non-interruptible Exposure Sequences | Yes | 3 mins. |
Creating a Big Phase II Proposal | Yes | - |
Using the Text Proposal (.prop) File | Yes | - |
How to Ingest Fixed Targets in Phase II | Yes | - |
How to make and use Fixed Target Confirmation Charts | Yes | 4.5 mins. |
How APT Processes Solar System Targets | Yes | - |
How to use the MAST Portal from APT | - | 7 mins. |
How to export Exposure Maps | Yes | - |
How to use the Bright Object Tool | Yes | 10.5 mins. |
How to use the COS BOT | Yes | 12 mins. |
How to retrieve minor body orbital elements from Horizons | - | 2 mins. |