Re: Running the Mark IV/starfocus helpfile

[Chris Albertson <chrisja@jps.net>]

Tom Droege wrote:

> 
> Another is to take a series of files that have been exposed at different
> focus positions and pick out the best focus.  I now have a program whih
> will start at a given focus position and step in arbitrary steps.  The
> program should take the starting position and the step size, examine the
> exposures and pick out the best position for the focus.

I forgot to include this URL.  You can skip the top part, look for
the "DESCRIPTION" section and read from there.

    http://iraf.noao.edu/scripts/irafhelp?starfocus

See if this will do what you need.

As for routine processing of the images.  This could be the first step.
http://iraf.noao.edu/scripts/irafhelp?ccdproc
I am going to see I can't run this automatically as the images are
collected.  Take a look starting at "DESCRIPTION"


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