CLONEAST

Name

cloneast

Purpose (one Line Only)

Clone astrometric solutions from one night to another

Description

Calling Sequence

cloneast,otherdir,offset

Inputs

otherdir - String pointing to the other directory from which to get
astrometric solution
offset - Numeric offset of file name. Files are named YYMMDD.nnn in
each directory. When linked, the root name is changed and
the other frame has the offset added to the suffix number.

Optional Input Parameters

Keyword Input Parameters

OVERWRITE - if set, overwrite solution, otherwise skip frames with
pre-existing solutions
MAXOTHER - Largest image number to copy solution from in the other
directory. Default=199. This prevents cloning a solution
that has already been cloned. Set to 0 to suppress this
check.
DIGITS - number of digits for the suffix of the image name, default=3
NOSAVE - flag, if set, prevents making any changes to files or copying
anything. Use this for a dry run to see if it's going to
work ok.
RANGE - Optional numeric range of things to clone from the other
directory. This is usually not required if you are providing
values in offset and are using MAXOTHER. If these two
inputs are set to zero then RANGE is a required input.

Outputs

Keyword Output Parameters

Common Blocks

Side Effects

Restrictions

Procedure

Modification History

Written by Marc W. Buie, Lowell Observatory, 2003/06/23
2003/07/03, MWB, added MAXOTHER keyword
2004/07/21, MWB, added creation of symbolic links for srd and psf files
2009/08/05, MWB, modified for new rd/wrastfc versions
2013/09/03, MWB, added DIGITS, NOSAVE, and RANGE keywords, further mods
for even newer rd/wrastfc