[Aavso-photometry] Re:Urgent Depth Question

[Jim Jones]

Bill Goff wrote:

> 
> On Dec 30, 2004, at 9:01 AM, aavso-photometry-request at mira.aavso.org wrote:
> 
>> From: Kevin Kessler <kkessler at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [Aavso-photometry] RE: Urgent Depth Question
>>
>> What makes this non-trivial?  In CCDSoft, I combine all the files in a
>> directory.  I wrote a script for CCDSoft which then scans through the
>> FITs headers of the files in  this directory,  and finds the first and
>> last image, adds the exposure time to the last image, and finds the
>> mid-point between that time and the start of the first image.  Is
>> there something I'm missing?
> 
> 
> Kevin,
> Interesting, sounds like a handy tool.  Can you tell us how the script 
> runs in CCDSoft and if you'd mind sharing it?  Could MaxIm be scripted 
> the same way? (I'm sure it can.)
> Thanks
> Bill

Bill, I can kinda answer part of that.  I'm 99% 
sure that MaxIm can be scripted the same way.  I 
started to write a script to completely automate 
stacking time series with very little problem.  I 
can't imaging that writing to the FITS header 
would be a problem...unless I am missing 
something.  Getting the definition correct is 
always a problem and Arne just helped with that.

Thanks Arne.

Jim Jones