Helioscope Reference Help

This page describe the menus and dialogues part of the Helioscope tool. For an overview of its usage go to Using Helioscope.

File Menu

Search

Search solar and STP VO archives for data within the specified range.

Halt Search

Stop ongoing search.

Close Window

Close the current Helioscope window - retrieved information will be lost unless it has been saved.

Login / Logout

Exit

Exits Helioscope and VODesktop.

Edit Menu

Cut, Copy, Paste, Select All, Select None, Invert selection: standard edit functions to operate on strings entered in Helio Scope boxes.

Preferences

Reset configuration

Reset the VODesktop configuration settings to the default values.

Clear cache

Removes all cache data, e.g. cached registry entries.

View Menu

Go to top

Go back to the initial display of the results of the search, the top of the display tree.

Up

Go up by one on the display tree.

As radial graph

Returns from Helioscope are displayed as a radial graph (default)

As hyperbolic graph

Returns from Helioscope are displayed as a hyperbolic graph

As Services Table

Returns from Helioscope are displayed as a table, listing the services queried, the number of data files returned and any messages or errors returned from the service.

Show popup warnings

Enable/disable popup warning and error messages

History

Displays time ranges used in previous searches. Clicking on one of the time ranges reloads it into the Start date & time and End date& time boxes.

Clear History

Clear the list of time ranges used in previous searches.

Result Menu

Note: These options are also available from the Actions panel, or by right clicking on a selection.

View

Opens the default browser and loads the selected file to view it (as a text file).

Download

Save the selected file to either local disk or the user's VOSpace.

Send Tables to Aladin

Option available if a result table was selected (by double clicking on one of the top level nodes - see screenshot below), and if the Aladin Helper Application has been launched (see [wiki/Install/MoreVOTools More VO Tools]). Sends the table to Aladin for viewing.

Send Tables to Topcat

Option available if a result table was selected (by double clicking on one of the top level nodes - see screenshot below), and if the Topcat has been launched (see TopCat Introduction). Sends the table to Topcat for viewing.

Send FITS to Aladin

Option available if one (or more) FITS image(s) was selected (by double clicking on image nodes - see screenshot below), and if the Aladin Helper Application has been launched (see [wiki/Install/MoreVOTools More VO Tools]). Sends the selected image(s) to Aladin for viewing.

Window Menu

See: VOExplorer Window Menu

Help Menu

Link to Help for Helioscope (this page).

Other items are as in VOExplorer Help Menu