[Aavso-photometry] Re:Urgent Depth Question

[Kevin Kessler]

The script runs in Windows Scripting Host, and, just taking a quick
glance at the Maxim Docs, you can certainly do exactly the same thing
with Maxim.  I do calculate the airmass through a TheSky COM object,
and it doesn't look like you can do that in the Desktop Universe, but
I haven't done an exhaustive check on that either.


On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 12:07:13 -0800, Jim Jones <nt7t at comcast.net> wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
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