1  Introduction

This material is virtually a merged version of my PhD thesis, the CDS user guide at RAL and the CDS user guide at MSSL, plus various material that I have produced and is available on the WWW (e.g. CHIANTI user guides).

Note that some material is not published.

1.0.1  Where to find information on CDS

RAL   (UK)

CDS main WWW pages:

http://solg2.bnsc.rl.ac.uk/


Principle Investigator:        Andrzej Fludra
             (Richard Harrisons until Sept 2003)

Project Scientist:             Peter Young
Science Operations Manager:    David Pike
Instrument Operations Manager: Jeff Payne
Science Software:   David Pike
                    William Thompson
                    Dominic Zarro

(a lot of useful software was developed at Oslo
by Stein Vidar Haugan and others)


MSSL (UK) 

Solar UK Research Facility  (Carl Foley)

http://surfwww.mssl.ucl.ac.uk/surf/

Giulio Del Zanna Phd Thesis and CDS WWW pages:

http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/astro/gd232/astro.html

Read CDS Software Notes. An enormous amount of information.

Sign up to the CDS Software and Data Analysis Discussion List

Read IDL procedures headers

Get involved !

Be open-minded and do not take any results for granted.

Do not be discouraged by the complexities, for the CDS data have a great diagnostic potential !