Current instrument status

• Official status report of the COMICS (link to Subaru Telescope)

Utilities

• COMICS observation planning applet Ver 0.1.6
• Create outputfiles of the applet from table
• Target visibility (Subaru Telescope Astronomical Resources)
• Today's almanac (CFHT)

Observation method

• Chop and Nod
• Combination for each mode
• Observation Sequence (under construction, including Japanese description) (to be updated)

Instrument properties

• Overview : see Official status report of the COMICS
• Direction on the Imaging Array
• Spectra Image Configuration on the Spectroscopic Arrays
• Installed and stocked optical components
• Filter Transmission Curves (to be updated)
• Linearity and Saturation Levels (to be updated)
• Sensitivity : see Official status report of the COMICS

Standards

• UKIRT MIR Standards (link to JAC)
• Standards by Cohen's group (access limited : see Cohen et al. 1999, AJ, 117, 1864 and table 4)
• Az-El vs Ra-Dec chart

The atmosphere in the mid-infrared

• Sky transmission and emission atlas
  • N band mid-resolution (written in Japanese)
• Best chopping frequency

Quick look

• Overview
• XFC : Image Viewer for COMICS see also above Overview
• COMICS quick look at the summit (Written in Japanese)
• Yet another COMICS quick look at the summit

Documents for Data Reduction

• FITS Header of COMICS
• Net integration time
• COMICS Data Reduction Manual ver 0.0 2001/5/24 Okamoto (written in Japanese) [PS] [bitmap-PS]
• N band low resolution spectroscopy for point sources2003/10/11 Honda (written in Japanese) [PS]
• COMICS Data Reduction Manual ver 0.0+beta 2004/11/13 Okada (written in Japanese) [PS]

Data Reduction Tools

• Scripts using IRAF
• COMICS Reduction Software

Links about weather

• Subaru Weather Tower (Subaru)
• Satellite images and animations (Mauna Kea Weather Center)
• Mauna Kea Weather (CFHT)