Script When to use it ====== ============== MONITOR Any time you want to see what the sky looks like, but don't want to record images. It's quite good at showing whether there are clouds. WAIRGLOW When you want to record data during a UARS/WINDII overpass (13m20s/call) (and the emission pattern is changing slowly enough to make the recorded images meaningful), or when the aurora is faint enough to require a long exposure time to see any detail. I have not used WFAURORA since I noticed that it frequently got only partway through an execution of WFAUROR1 before going back to filters 0/0 and starting again. I haven't noticed this problem with WAIRGLOW. I'm not sure why they behave differently, although it may have to do with the greater length of WFAURORA (all 10 filters) compared with WAIRGLOW (only 4 filters). WAURORA Any time you want to record images of an aurora, and don't mind (21m50s/call) the slightly greater interval between images caused by VIEWing each 10-s image pair as it's acquired. (13m10s/call) I wrote a very similar script called WMAURORA (Write Moderate AURORA) which takes only 10-s images (no 1-s images), and runs VIEW while waiting for the next 10-s image pair to come down the cables. It runs noticeably faster than WAURORA, but has the initially confusing feature that by the time the images are displayed, the header data structures have been updated to reflect the images now being acquired, so the filter labels on the screen are always wrong. For example, the EMPTY hole images are displayed while the cameras are exposing the 820bg and 608bg images, so those labels appear on the screen. I judge that it's a small price to pay for the speed. In order to keep things simple, I deleted the line to acquire 1-s images, but all exper- ience thus far shows that those images are of value only in the brightest auroras (of which I have seen none here this year). WFREJA As you said, during any satellite overflight. The critical (13m40s/call) thing for Freja overflights (when we thought the imager was working) was to get as many images as possible in the shortest possible time. Hence, only one image pair per cycle was displayed. If we still want to take 1-s images as well as 10-s images, WFREJA is our best bet. But if 10-s images only will suffice, as they generally will, then WMAURORA is perfectly adequate, even during satellite overflights.