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Introduction

The original ISOCAM Observer's Manual was intended to give as complete an overview of the instrument as possible. After 7 months of operation, it is still found to be quite complete and relatively up-to-date with the actual performance of the instrument in flight. Yet, however hard we tried, some issues were only partially covered in the first issue of the manual. Furthermore, flying ISOCAM has broadened and deepened our knowledge of its performance. It is therefore necessary to gather all these new informations in a single place, hence this addendum.
We stress that this is only an addendum to the observer's manual and that we assume that the reader is already familiar with ISOCAM's concepts. If this is not the case, one should obtain and read first a copy of the original ISOCAM Observer's Manual.
The addendum is structured as follows: Chapter 2 addresses issues already known before launch but which could not be included before the print date of the ISOCAM Observer's Manual, while Chapter 3 discuss topics unknown before launch and so not addressed in the ISOCAM Observer's Manual. Most of those topics appear especially important by seeing the in-orbit performance of the instrument. In Chapter 4 we describe the changes of the observing strategy caused by the potential saturation effect while arriving in the ISOCAM parallel mode and those caused by the missing column 24. In Chapter 5 the general topic of observing times estimates is touched. A page by page correction of the ISOCAM Observer's Manual is given in Chapter 6. Detailed examples on how to set up observations of bright targets which have an LW2 flux of more than 0.6 Jy are given for each AOT in Chapter 7.



Addendum of the ISOCAM Observer's Manual - V1.0
Mon Aug 5 15:50:39 MET DST 1996