PLASTEXT

Name

plastext

Purpose

Batch mode extraction of PLAST asteroid lists.

Description

Calling Sequence

plastext,root,startnum,finnum

Inputs

startnum - First frame number to process
finnum - Last frame number to process

Optional Input Parameters

Keyword Input Parameters

DIGITS - Number of digits in suffix of file name, default=3
EXTLIST - If image is a multi-extension FITS image, this list will
force the reduction of only the extension numbers listed.
The default is to do all the extensions, one at a time.
FULL - Flag, if set, causes this program to call the original 'plast'
program. The original is much slower but can be more accurate
since it does full formal orbit calculations with integration
for every step. Warning, the speed difference is more than
a factor of 100 and the differential gain is likely to be
imperceptibly small.
KEYLIST - Name of a file containing a correspondence list. This list
associates a set of standard names with the actual keyword
names found in a FITS file header. If this keyword is
omitted, a default list is used, as if a file with the
following contents had been supplied:
AIRMASS K AIRMASS
* DATE K DATE-OBS
* DATETMPL T DD-MM-YYYY
EXPDELTA V 0.0
EXPTIME K EXPTIME
FILTER K FILTERS
FILENAME K CCDFNAME
* OBJECT K OBJECT
* UT K UT
* RA K RA
* DEC K DEC
* EPOCH K EPOCH
The middle column is a flag. It may be K, for Keyword,
T, for Template, or V, for Value. If it is V, the contents
of the third field on that line should make sense for the
name in the first field. Only those fields marked with '*'
are actually used by this program.
MAGLIM - Limiting (faint) magnitude for asteroid extraction (default=30.0)
PATH - String, this is the name of the directory where the data are
stored. The actual data directory used is PATH+'/'+root.
The default is '' (blank) and the file would be root.NNN
which would permit putting a leading path on the root.
PSCALE - Scalar number, this is the scale of the image in arcsec/pixel.
If not specified, then this program will look for the
ASTROM information file, astrom.inf, in the current directory
for the plate scale. If the file does not exist, then you
will be prompted to provide the plate scale directly.
SCRIPT - String, if provided is the file name to save a script to.
If set will suppress the actual call to plast to
generate the asteroid lists. Instead, all the calls
to plast will be saved to this file.

Outputs

Keyword Output Parameters

Common Blocks

Side Effects

Restrictions

Procedure

Modification History

97/11/24, MWB, cloned from REFEXT.PRO
98/03/25, MWB, add EXTLIST keyword and group extension support
2000/02/05, MWB, minor mod to add .fits tag support.
2002/08/23, MWB, added support for new plast program.
2002/10/23, MWB, changed headfits call to fits_read for group data.
2014/01/13, MWB, added DIGITS keyword