NAME
domoon - takes image of the moon
SYNOPSIS
domoon
DESCRIPTION
domoon takes a picture of the moon calculating the topocentric
coordinates using the
moon command at the
time the is executed. It takes an image using the FILTERS, and
EXPTIME specified by the user.
photo command. Then in the background
it invokes photo_proc2
which does the bias, dark and flat field
corrections using the ccdproc
procedure.
The telescope may be offset from the calculated position by specifying the
optional keywords OFFSETRA and OFFSETDEC that represent the angular
offset in decimal degrees. Caution: The maximum offset is 5.0 degrees
since the telescope limits are not
rechecked.
The background procedure checks the environment variable SENDMAIL. If it is
true (T), the image is compressed into a file with the name $DATID.ftz and
queued for transmission to the remote system. Also a line is entered into the
file sendmail.log so the observer can be informed by e-mail by
morning.csh
SEE ALSO
ccdproc,
morning.csh,
photo,
telco
BUGS
A preliminary RA and DEC is assigned by the accepter for use of the
scheduling algorithm. If a request hangs around for a long time it will not
be scheduled at the right time because the moon will have
moved.