PE Main Toolbar
The Position Editor Toolbar provides quick access to the most commonly used features from the menu bar.
The buttons have the following action:
- Open – bring up a file selection dialog to load a previously saved image.
- Back – move backwards in image history list.
- Forward – move forward in image history list.
- Cut levels – bring up a GUI of showing the distribution of pixel values for the displayed image. You can interactively change the high and low cut levels either manually, by selecting the percentile range or the median clipped range with the Median Filter.
- Catalogs – brings up the Catalog Navigator. This tool provides access on-line source catalogs (including guide star), image servers (including sky survey), archives and personal catalogs, configure the display of catalog overlays and access the catalog navigator. The overlays can be saved with the underlying image.
- Images – queries the the default image server using the base coordinates of the observation selected in the Program Editor. The default can be changed by selecting a new server from Catalog -> Image Servers in the PE Main Menu (the current default is marked with a black dot).
- Manual GS – opens the Guide Star Search Tool for doing quick guide star searches. The coordinates for the search is the base position of the observation selected in the Program Editor. Likewise the Instrument is set using the instrument component of the selected observation in the Program Editor. The combination of the instrument and guide star type determine the minimum and maximum radii and the limiting magnitude for the query. A more detailed discussion of Guide Star Selection can be found here.