At SRON-Groningen a computer program has been developed to calculate SWS
observing times. This program, the SWS Observing Time Estimator (SOTE), is
available by FTP from:
ftp ftp.sron.rug.nl
username: anonymous
password: your email address
cd /pub/isosws/SOTE
The SOTE program is in /pub/isosws/SOTE. There are two subdirectories sote600 and sote610 which contain versions 6.0 and 6.1 respectively. Use version 6.1 only. The program works on VAX, UNIX and PC. The file INSTALL.TXT explains which files should be transferred to your account to get SOTE running on your system. A user's manual for SOTE is contained in the LaTeX file SOTE.TEX. The program is offered `as is'.
Users are reminded that this program is an ESTIMATOR only, and that true times are derived by the logic running in PGA/PH. They may differ by a factor 2 in some extreme cases. Users are therefore warned not to tune up their program using SOTE.