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Re: astronomy library [message #80578 is a reply to message #80576] Sat, 23 June 2012 16:47 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
elliottetzkorn is currently offline  elliottetzkorn
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On Saturday, June 23, 2012 6:37:17 PM UTC-5, (unknown) wrote:
> On Saturday, June 23, 2012 5:55:54 PM UTC-4, elliott...@gmail.com wrote:
>> Does anybody have a very user friendly tutorial for installing the astronomy library for IDL? I tried the one on nasa's site but I couldn't figure some of the parts out, particularly the path.
>>
>> Thank you!
>
> You just need to download the file: astron.dir.tar.gz from http://idlastro.gsfc.nasa.gov/ftp/ . You'll need to just put this files in your IDL_PATH. I only know how to do this if you're using Linux or Mac OSX, if it's windows then you're on your own.
>
> Once the files are in your path, start a fresh xterm (okay, the only way, but a safe way) to reset the path. Then start idl, and type "astrolib" to initialize a few system variables and be able to use all the procedures.
>
> russell

I do not understand how to put thing in the IDL_PATH in windows. If anybody knows that would be awesome.

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