MKNICSKY

Name

mknicsky

Purpose

Create a master sky image from a set of dithered NICMOS images.

Description

Calling Sequence

mknicsky,root,PATH=path,OUTPATH=outpath

Inputs

root - Root of observation set. This is usually a 6 character name, the
first 4 characters identify the proposal id and the last two
identify the visit.

Optional Input Parameters

Keyword Input Parameters

path - Directory where the images are read from. (default = current)
outpath - Directory where the final sky image is to be written to,
(default=path)

Outputs

A FITS file is written to "outpath" with the name, root_<grismid>.sky
where <grismid> is replaced by the grism name as read from the header.
Note that you must have at least 3 images for a given grism for the
sky image to be created for that grism.

Keyword Output Parameters

Common Blocks

Side Effects

Restrictions

Procedure

Modification History

Written by Marc W. Buie, Lowell Observatory, 1999 July 12
2004/9/21, MWB, removed obsolete call to Findfile