RDRAWAST

Name

rdrawast

Purpose

Read raw astrometry data file.

Description

File I/o

Calling Sequence

rdrawast,file,fn,jd,ra,dec,mag,nobs

Inputs

file - Astrometry data file to be read.

Optional Input Parameters

Keyword Input Parameters

Outputs

fn - Original filename for measurement
jd - Julian date of measurement
ra - Right Ascension (radians)
dec - Declination (radians)
mag - measured magnitude
nobs - Number of measurements. (zero if file not found or file empty).

Keyword Output Parameters

Common Blocks

Side Effects

Restrictions

Procedure

Modification History

98/01/13, Written by Marc W. Buie, Lowell Observatory
2002/08/10, MWB, added some error trapping on bad input files.
2002/09/03, MWB, changed Str_sep call to strsplit