NAME:
seeing
PURPOSE: (one line only)
Given an astronomical image, determine the image quality (seeing).
DESCRIPTION:
CATEGORY:
CCD data processing
CALLING SEQUENCE:
seeing,image,fwhm,objrad,nstars
INPUTS:
image - Array containing image to be examined.
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.
MINSIGNAL - minimum signal to consider when looking for sources
(default=0)
MAXSIGNAL - maximum signal to conisder when looking for sources
(default=60000)
NODISPLAY - Flag, if set will suppress plot and image outputs
OUTPUTS:
fwhm - Image quality, FWHM in pixels for the image.
objrad - Object aperture radius used to determine fwhm
nstars - Number of stars that were averaged to get fwhm
KEYWORD OUTPUT PARAMETERS:
ERROR - set to 1 (true) if an error occurred, zero otherwise. If the
error flag is set, the return values may or may not be useful.
COMMON BLOCKS:
SIDE EFFECTS:
RESTRICTIONS:
PROCEDURE:
MODIFICATION HISTORY:
Written by Marc W. Buie, Lowell Observatory, 2004/07/03
2005/06/28, MWB, added extra error trapping and ERROR keyword
2008/07/23, MWB, added keyword for initial FWHM guess