MSC = multiscale clean MEM = maxiumum entropy * A few comments on MEM. I believe that MEM is currently over-emphasized in the cookbook -- possibly giving the impression that it is the best task to use. For novices MEM is actually extremely dangerous -- while you can explain the use of the data progress plot for terminating MEM it is more difficult to explain the subtlties of masking. Because MEM actually tries to force non-masked regions to be smooth -- subtly different masks can lead to quite measurably different images -- often with mask induced artifacts. Indeed because of this smoothing property even the residual map is of limited usefulness if you clean very deeply. In contrast the various forms of clean, at the very least do not depend that sensitively on the mask -- you cannot make real emission go away by not including it in the mask. Especially once the properties of the multiscale clean are better understood (which removes the annoying clean instability), I suggest promoting the various forms of clean and relegating MEM to a side note. * Why are the scales measured in pixels? Wouldn't it be more intuitive in beams? Now if you change your pixel size you also have to change the scales. Using the pixels "convolved with the beam" it isnt' clear to me what PHYSICAL sizes these choices correspond to. If you use a scale (other than delta function) that is smaller than the synthesized beam, what is the resolution really? Doing this is a form of "superuniform weighting" and it is no longer clear what the "real" resolution is. * There are many caveats to choosing these scales that need to be addressed in the cookbook. Conceptually, you should never use scales that are either smaller/larger than your longest/shortest spacing. It useful to have the added warning not to have a scale larger than the mask but for new users, a better discussion of physical scales is needed. * While the "Total flux" in each major cycle is interesting to see displayed, the number you actually have some idea about is the actual Total flux of the source. It would be nice if the logger reported this as either a running number throughout or at least at the end. Total cleaned flux ="" * If aips++ does not find the mask file, it should complain! I was stuck for an hour trying to figure out what was wrong with my parameters when the problem was actually a typo in the name of my mask file. If you aren't doing interactive, it should fail with a clear message error without a proper mask name. * Directions for deconvolve single dish for multi-scale clean were hard to follow. Isn't the GBT response incoded psfname='gbt' doesn't work. I looked up psfname in User ref. manual and there is zero information? What is the rational for doing multiscale clean for this? Is it important to pick scales also used for your final combined image? * When you have an external viewer open, "remove all" does not seem to properly remove the image from memory. i.e. in the case that you display image trial1.im, decide you don't like it, "remove all" in the external viewer, remove file trial1.im from disk and recreate a new trial1.im and display in viewer -- you will be seeing the old image not the new one. A command of "remove all" should aboslutely remove it!