Fwd: [Aavso-photometry] pipeline

[Michael Koppelman <lolife@bitstream.net>]

Now I understand how hard this TASS type of thing is -- to automate this whole process is no small trick. Now that I've learned it the hard way I should probably look around at what I could use where someone else did the hard work!

Cheers,
Michael


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> From: Michael Koppelman <lolife@bitstream.net>
> Date: January 1, 2004 11:37:23 PM CST
> To: aavso-photometry@mira.aavso.org
> Subject: [Aavso-photometry] pipeline
>
> I spent the last two days working on my astrometry. You can't combine multiple nights of observations unless you get that figured out. WCSTools is pretty cool but it took a lot of tinkering to get it figured out.
>
> I've also been working on my pipline. When you are doing a normal time-series run, you can just process it in Mira or similar and be done with it. With this sequence business it is much more complicated. Check out this flow chart:
>
> http://www.lolife.com/astronomy/pipeline.png
>
> This assumes you already have your transformation coefficients and zeropoints. I also assumes you have your images reduced and ready to be processed with phot in IRAF. A combination of IRAF, WSCTools, perl scripts and some command line hackery has reduced a lot of the work involved, but it still takes quite a lot of time.
>
> It seems to me as a beginner in this all-sky stuff that the hard part is after you close the dome and boot up the computer!
>
> Cheers,
> Michael Koppelman
> http://www.lolife.com/astronomy/
>
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