Changes to Buie IDL v5.4 Library

This is a reverse chronological list of changes to all library routines since the switch-over from the previous version of IDL.

slewdur: Written by Marc W. Buie, Lowell Observatory, 2002/01/27

obsdur: Written by Marc W. Buie, Lowell Observatory, 2002/01/27

robomean: 2002/01/15, MWB, fixed a subtle case where the data leads to stdev=0.0 that was causing the program to crash.

kbompck: 2002/01/14, MWB, added ASTDIR and KBODIR keywords.

openmysql: Written by Marc W. Buie, Lowell Observatory, 2002/01/09

mysqlcmd: Written by Marc W. Buie, Lowell Observatory, 2002/01/09

lsidtim: 2002/01/08, MWB, 2-d input on jd is now allowed.

hangle: 2002/01/08, MWB, now allows 2-d input for jd,ra,dec

airmass: 2002/01/08, MWB, now allows 2-d inputs on jd,ra,dec

srcast: 2002/01/07, MWB, added DIR keyword

rdstarc: Written by Marc W. Buie, Lowell Observatory, 2002/01/07

remfit: Written by Marc W. Buie, Lowell Observatory, 2001/12/20

pntcol: Written by Marc W. Buie, Lowell Observatory, 2001/12/19

refext: 2001/12/07, MWB, added CATPAD (same as in astrom.pro).

lcltoeq: Written by Marc W. Buie, Lowell Observatory, 2001/11/22, ported from a C library routine.

ccdcal: 2001/11/09, MWB, added support for an input list of file numbers.

reductor: 2001/11/06, MWB, allowed for cached ephemeris calculations

coord: 2001/11/06, MWB, added CACHE, FNCACHE keywords to ephem call

rastr: 2001/11/04, MWB, fixed bug in places=-7 case

kbompck: 2001/11/01, MWB, added new category

bidr2: 2001/10/29, WMG, added "Pfn", "Pparms", and "pedantic" parameters

astrom: 2001/10/23, MWB, changed constraint on minimum number of stars, was forced to be 10, now it can be lower if you don't enable all the cross terms.

nobsupdt: Written by Marc W. Buie, Lowell Observatory, 2001/10/17

tnorecov: 2001/10/09, MWB, updated for new .[s]dat file format

mosplot: 2001/10/09, MWB, added KPNO keyword flag

moscheck: Written by Marc W. Buie, Lowell Observatory, 2001/10/09

hastr: Written by Marc W. Buie, Lowell Observatory, 2001/10/09

kbompck: Written by Marc W. Buie, Lowell Observatory, 2001/10/05

xdesig: 2001/10/03, MWB, upgraded to LONG loop counters.

exporter: Written by Marc W. Buie, Lowell Observatory, 2001/09/26

autocal: 2001/09/25, MWB, forced imagetyp field to be lower case.

ccdproc: 2001/09/19, MWB, fixed minor bug in error messages

itool__define: 2001/9/18, MWB, fixed color error in plots with 8-bit display.

looker: 2001/09/04, MWB, added "Toggle Color Mode" option, displays difference image

mosplot: Written by Marc W. Buie, Lowell Observatory, 2001/08/28

astsolve: 2001/08/27, MWB, changed to auto-scale errors with /edit

mmaspli: 2001/08/19, MWB, modified to work on any even number of groups.

rdobjdes: 2001/08/15, MWB, upgraded to use LONG for all counters.

astlinks: 2001/08/15, MWB, changed to use new rdlplast procedure.

rangepar: 2001/07/25 - Written by Marc W. Buie, Lowell Observatory.

tnorecov: 2001/06/19, MWB, added Show Object Info on Tools menu item.

tnorecov: 2001/06/09, MWB, object coordinates updated for changing time. Make the widget independent of the working directory of the main IDL window.

objappul: 2001/05/31, MWB, added MINSEP keyword

matchup: 2001/05/16, MWB, added OBJECTKEY keyword

fitsedit: 2001/05/16, MWB, implemented the "Save" function which will cause the current file to be overwritten.

obsprop: 2001/05/01, MWB, fixed objcode bug.

objappul: Written by Marc W. Buie, Lowell Observatory, 2001/05/01

ldcalib: 2001/05/01, MWB, changed behavior so that if x1,x2 or y1,y2 make it to the end, then these values are loaded from the cxsize or cysize.

mkflat: 2001/04/28, MWB, added DDIR keyword

mkbias: 2001/04/28, MWB, added DDIR keyword.

looker: 2001/04/27, MWB, added FITS sub-image saves to "Snap Object"

autocal: 2001/04/24, MWB, fixed problem with incomplete flat sets on a night.

sspos: 2001/04/20, MWB, changed to support new geteph/ephem

showelem: 2001/04/20, MWB, changed to support new version of geteph/ephem

astrom: 2001/04/20, MWB, changes to support new ephem/geteph version

tnoobs: 2001/04/18, MWB, changed systime call.

sspos: 2001/04/18, MWB, changed systime call.

showelem: 2001/04/18, MWB, changed systime call.

logerror: 2001/04/18, MWB, changed systime call.

fieldobs: 2001/04/18, MWB, changed systime call

datamon: 2001/04/18, MWB, changed systime call to use /julian flag

ast2ted: 2001/04/18, MWB, added slowfile output option

astlist: 2001/04/17, MWB, added slowfile output option

kbolist: 01/04/06, DBT - Fixed bug in rate

ephem: 01/04/06, DBT, added PIPE keyword

des_sum: 01/04/06, DBT - Fixed bug in sort, Fixed bug in KBOName, cleand up code

itool__define: 2001/4/3, MWB, added plotting of active template in work window

ephem: 01/04/03, MWB, changed to support two error numbers in information

rdlplast: 01/04/02 - Written by David B. Tucker, Lowell Observatory 20001/08/15, MWB, restructured the calling sequence and defaults.

astrom: 2001/03/29, MWB, limit size of ephemeris error to twice field size.

astrom: 2001/03/28, MWB, added support of properly using a 24-bit display.

sspos: 2001/03/22, David Tucker, changed obsfile support

focscan: Written by Marc W. Buie, 2001/03/22, Lowell Observatory.

fieldobs: 2001/03/19, David Tucker, changed use of rdobscod for new file handling.

autocal: 2001/03/19, MWB, fixed file name bug.

obsprop: 2001/03/16, David Tucker, changed rdobscod call and file default

obsplan: 2001/03/16, David Tucker, changed rdobscod default file call.

tnorecov: 2001/03/14, MWB, changed for new format of support file.

tnorecov: 2001/03/12, MWB, numerous changes including online help files.

rdobscod: 2001/03/12, MWB, changed method of locating the obscode.dat file. Now looks in the user's IDL_PATH for this file.

mkflat: 2001/02/23, MWB, added option to provide input file list.

mkdark: 2001/02/23, MWB, added option to provide input file list. Also, added functions to make it consistent with mkbais,mkflat.

mkbias: 2001/02/23, MWB, added option to provide input file list.

autocal: 2001/02/15 - Marc W. Buie, Lowell Observatory

lowess: 2001/02/01, MWB, changed polyfitw call to poly_fit equivalent

nic1scan: Written by Marc W. Buie, Lowell Observatory, 2001/01/30

basphote: 2001/01/25, MWB, fixed bug in certain cases when overriding the object serial number. Also took out all "message" calls to make sure info and warning messages are seen.

colbias: 2001/01/22, MWB, changed so bias region is clipped by crop region.

looker: 2001/01/17, MWB, added "Snap Object" tool.

rdobjdes: 01/01/08, Written by Susan Kern

des_sum: 01/01/04, Written by Susan Kern

kbolist: 01/01/02, Written by Susan Kern

rdobscod: 2000/11/19, MWB, added different default file for Windows.

medarr_mwb: 2000/11/19, MWB, renamed to avoid name conflict with Astron library

colbias: 2000/11/19, MWB, added support for new data types

rdoblist: 2000/11/9, MWB, removed Str_sep call.

raparse: 2000/11/9, MWB, removed Str_sep call.

objrepor: 2000/11/9, MWB, removed Str_sep call.

decparse: 2000/11/9, MWB, removed Str_sep call.

xrunplot: 2000/11/08, MWB, removed use of obsolete ()

xdspec: 2000/11/08, MWB, removed use of obsolete code constructs

starcat: 2000/11/08, MWB, removed use of obsolete ()

rdpricat: 2000/11/08, MWB, removed use of obsolete ()

rdkeylis: 2000/11/08, MWB, removed use of obsolete ()

plch_fun: 2000/11/08, MWB, removed use of obsolete ()

phasebin: 2000/11/08, MWB, removed use of obsolete ()

perser: 2000/11/08, MWB, removed use of obsolete code constructs

gxpar: 2000/11/08, MWB, removed use of !err

fitsedit: 2000/11/08, MWB, removed use of !err

altoha: 2000/11/06, MWB, changed to permit vector inputs.

jdparse: 2000/11/05, Written by Marc W. Buie, Lowell Observatory

robomean: 2000/11/2, MWB, cosmetic rewrite.

moment4: 2000/11/2, MWB, modified to use the IDL system function moment. This routine really does nothing more than rewrap the IDL function.

badpar: 2000/11/1, MWB, added new types for IDL v5.4


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