KBOPLAN

Name

kboplan

Purpose

KBO observing planning table generation

Description

Calling Sequence

kboplan,objcode,obs,date

Inputs

objcode - String array of standard object codes (see ephem.pro), if the
input is a single string with @ as the first character, then
the rest of the string is interpreted as a file to read the
object codes from.
obs - Integer Marsden code of the observatory
688 - Lowell Observatory
500 - Geocentric
If you provide an invalid code, 688 is assumed.
date - UT date and time vector near midnight for night,
[year,month,day,hour]

Optional Input Parameters

Keyword Input Parameters

FWHM - Seeing to assume for the night, default=1.2 arcsec
OUTPUT - String, if supplied, indicates the name of a file to save the
output to. The default is to print the information on the
terminal.
AMLIMIT - Air mass limit for observations (default=2.5)
DESCRIPTION - Optional string array with a descriptive label for each
object. If supplied it should match the length of the
objcode input array.
MINSEP - Minimum motion desired between successive visits in arcsec.
default=3
OBSLIST - List of planned observations. This is a string which contains
the file name. In the file, the first blank-delimited field
is the name of the object. This is the only thing read from
the file. The rest of the line can be anything you like and
can be used to document the sequence. If this is not supplied
the observing sequence output is not generated.

Outputs

Keyword Output Parameters

Common Blocks

Side Effects

Restrictions

Procedure

Modification History

Written by Marc W. Buie, Lowell Observatory, 1997/05/23
2015/05/15, MWB, Massive overhaul and upgrade for more functionality
2015/06/11, MWB, added FWHM keyword