Draft Agenda

• Overview of the PlatoSim documentation
• How to configure PlatoSim: overview of the configuration parameters
• Extracting the PlatoSim output: the structure & content of the HDF5 files
• Scripting PlatoSim using Python
• Use case examples:

✴generating an artificial star field tailored to your needs

✴astrometry time series of a sample of bright stars

✴specifying different CCDs of the same camera

✴image series of different telescopes of an overlap sky region

✴…

• Extracting photometry from PlatoSim images
• GitHub: issue tracking & release plan for PlatoSim

Requirements

In order to use the meeting time as efficiently as possible, we would like to ask you to install PlatoSim before you come to the meeting.  How to do this is described on

http://ivs-kuleuven.github.io/PlatoSim3/.  All you need, is a (free) GitHub account.  You are, of course, welcome to contact us if you would come across problems when installing PlatoSim.

Please, also make sure you have a Python distribution installed, e.g. Anaconda.  Packages you will be needing are: numpy, h5py, matplotlib, and numpy.

If there are specific things you would like to simulate, please, let us know!