NAME
photo
SYNOPSIS
photo tarid= logid=
DESCRIPTION
This is the workhorse procedure that takes a picture of the
targetID number on the command line.
In particular it does the following:
- runs openup
- turns on telescope tracking
- If object is an asteroid, recalculates current coordinates
- points the telescope to the object specified by ObjectID
- For each PictureID it takes an image
- Sets specified Filter
- Focus telescope (temperature)
- Uses ExposureTime, Binning, and Amplifier
- Repeats Picture.Count time
- Writes FITS file with detailed header and changes file to
canonical name
- Spawn background processing of image using photo_back
photo is currently written as a csh script.
The logid specifies the record in the
Log table and
will be used to write messages in case of failure.
Not all exit paths generate messages.
OPTIONS
INPUTS
The following Database tables
and values are used.
Observer.Name
Object.Name
Object.IsPlanet
Object.RightAscension - if not planet
Object.Declination - if not planet
Object.Equinox - if not planet
Picture.ExposureTime
Picture.Binning
Picture.FilterID
Picture.Count
OUTPUTS
Log.Message for some failures
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