RE: quick note on DS23 positions

[Chris Albertson <chrisalbertson90278@yahoo.com>]

I'm working on a FITS writer that scoops up the image header
while (hopefuly) the images are still around.  I like the idea
of combining some numbers of frames into one star list.  Tom's
"collected.big" is a good model.  It needs two more things

1) a "Frame Number" column

2) A second table appended to the file that contains
one line per image with a column for each image header keyword.
Yes, it will be a wide table.

The tools built around this FITS table that we will need are

1) A converter.  Takes th output of a pipeline and writes it
using TASS conventions

2) A dumper. Converts FITS to plain text.

3) Database importer.  We will outgrow using files
soon

--- aah@nofs.navy.mil wrote:
> Remember that the long discussion about pipeline stuff
> a few years ago suggested:
>   - starlists in fits table format
>   - image fits header included in the starlist
> I think a lot of brain cells were burned developing the requirements
> and anyone who is writing a pipeline should consider following
> those guidelines.  The temperature would then have been readily
> available without going back to the raw files one more time.
> Arne
> 


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