Introduction:

This is a software product development of the The Jupiter Space Station Group for the SpectraCyber Spectrometer... Copyright 2000... All rights reserved.

The software will be provided for free as a Pkzip file on the JSS site.  The name of this file is: SpectraCyberUnzip.zip

The Windows SpectraCyber software supercedes the DOS based control software for the SpectraCyber Spectrometer and the previous 2.1 Windows version.

The SpectraCyber software can be used to control the SpectraCyber Spectrometer (either single or dual mode) as well as the UltraCyber.

The software has been designed and tested on Intel 486 equipment or better, running Windows 95 - 2000 and ME; and a SVGA (800 x 600) monitor.

The software provides a control and hardware setting interface to the SpectraCyber and UltraCyber spectrometer. Additionally, the software has features to play data movies of hundreds of scans at a time, select time coordinate systems for the data files,  set the computer clock to within 500 milliseconds of WWV via the internet, change graphical features such as background or the amplitude axis on the data plot.

Final modifications in this version include automatic computation of the velocity doppler shift of the Local Standard of Rest (LSR) based on a specific target, wide screen bmp shots, moving average plotting, inverse video conversion, plot data dumps for EXCEL, and integration or signal averaging in Continuum mode.

The software can be completely exercised and tested in an offline mode using real Sagittarius data along with files to play data movies.

Coming features include JAVA internet control of a spectrometer and NTP time protocol clock setting. However these features are being developed for the new SpectraCyber II.

This software [mercifully] does not link with the Windows Registry.

Implementation:

To install the software simply follow these steps:

1. Click on the Download hyperlink on the support page.

2. Choose a temporary folder to deposit the download file.

3. After downloading, double click on the SpectraCyberUnzip.zip

4. The Unzip gives you the option of installing in a folder named SpectraCyber or a folder of your choice.

5. Under the folder you choose, three sub-folders are created... please do not change the names or relocate these sub-folders.

6. You could at this point right click on SpectraCyber.exe to create a shortcut for the desktop. You could also do the same for JSSatomicTime.exe for setting your computer clock to NIST atomic time via the internet.

7. Help files within the product give full software and hardware documentation.

8. You may now delete the download file... Installation complete.