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+NOAO -- A suite of IRAF based packages for the reduction and analysis of
+Optical Astronomy data.
+
+    artdata	artificial data generation
+    astrometry	astrometric routines
+    astcat      astronomical catalog and survey acess routines
+    astutil	general astronomy oriented utilities
+    digiphot	digital stellar photometry
+    filterphot	filter photometry reductions
+    focas	faint object classification and analysis
+    imred	image reductions
+    mtlocal	data i/o programs for custom NOAO data formats
+    nobsolete	obsolete tasks
+    nproto	miscellaneous prototype quality tasks
+    obsutil     observing utilities for planning and evaluation
+    observatory	Set and define observatory parameters
+    onedspec	one dimensional spectra
+    rv          radial velocity analysis package
+    surfphot	surface photometry package
+    twodspec	two dimensional spectra
+
+Not all of these packages are necessarily implemented.