MT Pipe Data Reduction Notes


Put the raw data in spool/MJD

Copy the mdReport file to run/mjdMJD

Read the observing log and edit the mdReport file in the run directory

Copy an mtPlan.par file to run/mjdMJD and edit it to make it right.

% cd /data/run/mjdMJD
% setup mt
% mtpipe
mtpipe> clean_report mdReport-51318a.par
mtpipe> preMtFrames /data/spool/MJD /data/run/mjdMJD APO20 MJD 1

% chmod +w exParam.par
Edit exParam.par to set colorSolve to 1

% mtpipe -command "mtFrames -onlyflat -verbose=3" >>&! mtFrames.out &
% mtpipe -command "mtFrames -skipbias -skipflat -dropobj -dropimages=5 -verbose=2" >>&! mtFrames.out &
% mtpipe -command "excal -drop -verbose=4" >>&! excal.out &

Ship the mdReport file to sdssdp4 and run ko:

sdssdp4> cd
sdssdp4> setup ko
sdssdp4> ko
ko> koGenMTGSC mdReport-NNNNNN.par Sec 1.0
ko> sessionEnd
ko> quit

Copy the fits files back to Baltimore:
sdssdp3> scp 'sdssdp4:/home/s1/au/*.fit' .
sdssdp3> mtpipe -command "kali -verbose=4" >>&! kali.out &

Put the list of kaCalObj*.fit files into 'files.txt' and
edit out the 'kaCalObj-' and '.fit' parts.

Run idl
IDL> .run ../blist
IDL> blist

This makes the kaCalObj*.txt files.

Then ../mksort

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June 7, 2001