A HETERODYNE INTEGRATION TIME CALCULATOR (HITEC)

When the Integration Time Calculator (ITC) for scuba observations was released, the response was immediate and enthusiastic. Calculating required integration times for any observation technique under whatever sky conditions was simple, repeatable, and accurate. A similar facility for observing with heterodyne instruments was much more difficult to develop, because of the plethora of instruments/configurations/sky conditions, coupled with non-uniform instrument sensitivies within each bandwidth and the presence of atmospheric "features".

Now a Heterodyne Integration TimE Calculator (HITEC) is in place! Designed by Robin Phillips, HITEC is a stand alone application (i.e. not yet web based) and needs to be downloaded from here. (It's also available from the JCMT home page under http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/JACpublic/JCMT/Apply_time/ITC/heterodyne_itc.html) It's a perl script, and can be run on any platform which has perl/TK installed. Complete instalation instructions are available from the web page.