PLAST

Name

plast

Purpose

Support routine for calling ``PLAST'' to get asteroids on an image.

Description

Calling Sequence

plast,jd,ra,dec,width,height,bmaglim,rmaglim,outfile

Inputs

jd - Julian date of field.
ra - Right ascension of center of field (J2000)
input can be in radians (double,float) or
a string HH:MM:SS.S (see RAPARSE for valid syntax).
dec - Declination of center of field for (J2000).
input can be in radians (double,float) or
a string +DD:MM:SS.S (see DECPARSE for valid syntax).
width - Width of field to extract (arcsec).
height - Height of field to extract (arcsec).
outfile - File name for the results of the extraction.

Optional Input Parameters

Keyword Input Parameters

maglim - Limiting V magnitude of asteroids to extract (default=30).
title - Internal title for plast extraction (default='auto plast').
obscode - Observatory code (default = '688', Lowell Observatory).

Outputs

Keyword Output Parameters

Common Blocks

Side Effects

Restrictions

Procedure

If the accelerator program has previously been run, (plastset), there
will be a file, allsky.plast, in the current directory. If this file
exists, the new mode extraction is enabled and doplast is run instead
of plast. To force the old style plast even with this accelerator file,
use the /oldplast flag.

Modification History

97/11/24, Written by Marc W. Buie, Lowell Observatory
2000/09/22, MWB, modified for new version of plast
2002/08/16, MWB, added transparent option to use the new plast procedure
for KBO searching.
2002/09/09, MWB, added support for string obscode values