NAME:
fseeing
PURPOSE: (one line only)
Collect and maintain seeing information for a group of images
DESCRIPTION:
CATEGORY:
CCD data processing
CALLING SEQUENCE:
fseeing,fnlist
INPUTS:
fnlist - List of image files that should appear in the data file
This should not include any directory path information, use
the PATH keyword for that.
OPTIONAL INPUT PARAMETERS:
KEYWORD INPUT PARAMETERS:
FWHMGUESS - Initial guess of the FWHM in the image. Default=3. If this
is significantly smaller than the actual seeing you will
get an answer that is much too small. The penalty for
guessing a larger than optimal value appears to be weak.
SKYTHRESH - minimum signal to consider when looking for sources, this
number sets the threshold to be this many sigma above the
mean sky level (default=5)
MAXSIGNAL - maximum signal to conisder when looking for sources
(default=60000)
DISPLAY - Flag, if set will show plot and image outputs (this is usually
not a good idea)
OUTFILE - Name of the file for saving the data (default is seeing.dat)
PATH - Directory where the images are to be found. Default is the
current directory.
KEYFILE - header keyword correspondence file (see loadkeys.pro)
OUTPUTS:
KEYWORD OUTPUT PARAMETERS:
results - anonymous structure with the data from the seeing.dat file.
tags are:
fn - list of file names (alphabetical order)
jd - Julian date mid-time of the image
fwhm - estimated seeing for each image [pixels]
objrad - Object radius used
nstars - Number of sources used to find fwhm
err - Flag, 1 if there was an error with this entry
nfiles - number of files (length of all these vectors)
COMMON BLOCKS:
SIDE EFFECTS:
RESTRICTIONS:
PROCEDURE:
MODIFICATION HISTORY:
2010/09/17 - Written by Marc W. Buie, Southwest Research Institute