NAME

fitstotpoint - generates TPoint file from FITS files

SYNOPSIS

fitstotpoint [nomatch] fits_files .....

DESCRIPTION

fitstotpoint creates a TPoint file using input data from FITs files that are WCS corrected; i.e. nmatch > 0. It creates the file run.dat. It will not overwrite the run.dat.

This script requires the following keywords from the first FITs file.

KeywordDescriptionunit
TELESCOPName of telescope C
DATE-OBSISO date of observation C
OAToutside air temperature C
BAR barometric airpressurembar
OBSLAT observatory latitudedecimal degrees
ELEVATIO observatory elevationmeters
HUMIDITY relative humidity percent

This script requires the following keywords from every file:

KeywordDescriptionunit
CRVAL1 RA of center ICRSdecimal degrees
CRVAL2 DEC of center ICRSdecimal degrees
EQUINOX 2000.0 decimal years
RAWRA observed RA from encoders for HH:MM:SS
RAWDEC observed Dec from encoders for DD:MM:SS
RAWEQUI Equinox of raw data decimal years
LSTHDR Local sidereal time HH:MM:SS

It is assumed that: 

CTYPE1  = 'RA---TAN'
CTYPE2  = 'DEC--TAN'
WCSDIM  =                    2
OPTIONS
nomatch - generates run.dat even if nmatch=0. Use this to do a NULL test of the pointing.
Pointing index