Author Topic: Support of MEF fits for Comet Alignment and other processes  (Read 1574 times)

Offline anunez

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I tried to search for this topics but only found discussion of XSIF extension support. I am trying to use CometAlignment from a professional instrument where different CCD's frames are stored as FITS extension in a single file but I've got "*** Error: Multiple image files is not supported", as the CA process can not handle the composing frames in parallel.
 
Understood thant I tried to split the fits manyually, and save each CCD extesion as a independent FITS or even XISF files, one for each CCD.  I could calibrate them with B,D,F masters but if I try  them again in CometAligment I get a different error "*** DATE-OBS keyword not found or invalid".

It is clear that when saving the children extensions as new fits/xisf the original headers keyword at top tree level of the MEF fits are lost and not transfered to the extension headers, including DATE-OBS, etc. so CometAlignment cannot compute time differences between subs.

Any idea how to process those MEF files to retain the top tree keywords?

Thanks,
Agustin

Offline Juan Conejero

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Re: Support of MEF fits for Comet Alignment and other processes
« Reply #1 on: 2018 December 18 02:04:43 »
Hi Agustin,

If that happens, it's because the additional frames don't have DATE-OBS keywords in the original MEF. You can add these keywords manually with the FITSKeyword process.
Juan Conejero
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