showcand manual page

showcand

showcand is a C-shell script which writes the most often used information about a candidate file to standard out. It is used to generate the logfiles.
object   - the object name
datid    - the data id code
nmatch   - the number of fiducial stars common to target and reference 
date-obs - the Universal time date of the observation
magdiff  - the magnitude difference of target to reference 
mwfhm    - median fwhm of target in pixels
sky      - sky value in adu
skysig   - the rms of the sky value in adu
dr       - the row offset of the target from the reference image
dc       - the column offset of the target from the reference image
Magdiffs that are negative mean that the new image is weaker than the reference. Images with NMATCH > 1 must have used the fiducial star method. Images with NMATCH == 1 must have used the correlation method, but then one star was found to agree. Images with NMATCH== 0 were derived bye correlation method. Here are some examples of good images:
IC239   Jan77gpe   5 07/01/1997 06:11:22    0.09  5.9    23  2.0  99.00   0.0  0
.00  -232  -43 
NGC1023 Jan77gqz   8 07/01/1997 06:15:16   -0.08  5.7    23  1.9  99.00   0.0  0
.00  -283  -62 
NGC1058 Jan77grw   1 07/01/1997 06:17:13    0.14  6.2    22  1.8  99.00   0.0  0
.00     4   19 
NGC1186 Jan77gsu   6 07/01/1997 06:19:11   -0.00  6.1    21  1.9  99.00   0.0  0
.00  -232  -61

Last revised 4/04/97 - RRT