About IRAF

IRAF is the primary program used by the BYU Astronomy Research group to analyze data. Included on the left menu are tutorials and information that students have written in to help students with their research. Other IRAF information sources are linked to on the right menu.

IRAF stands for Image Reduction and Analysis Facility. It is a general purpose software system for the reduction and analysis of astronomical data. IRAF is written and supported by the IRAF programming group at the National Optical Astronomy Observatories (NOAO) in Tucson, Arizona. NOAO is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), Inc. under cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation