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added some info about plog in docs
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in the "at the telescope" section,I thought it would be useful to mention plog
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trmrsh committed Jun 11, 2021
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terminal, so first of all open a terminal on the "drpc" (data
reduction PC).

.. Note::

Many of the precise arguments & prompts you will see on these pages
have changed with software updates, so don't worry if you spot differences.

Plotting the data coming in
===========================

Assuming that you are observing and data are being acquired to the
rack PC at the telescope, the first command to try is |rtplot| [#f0]_
or, preferably, |nrtplot|, an developmental upgrade to |rtplot| based
or, preferably, |nrtplot|, a developmental upgrade to |rtplot| based
on matploltib. Try typing in a terminal as follows::

rtplot
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Commands mentioned in this section: |reduce|.

|plog|
------

Once you have a reduction log file, then the command |plog| can be useful
to make simple plots of counts, count ratios, FWHMs etc, while allowing
to zoomand pan in an interactive matplotlib plot. It can be run while |reduce|
itself is running.

.. rubric:: Footnotes

.. [#f0] All |hiper| commands are implemented as entry points to functions,
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