SN_FINDER manual page

sn_finder

sn_finder is a shell script that runs the XVista stars command with parameters that are adjusted for the telescope. The input argument is the DATID of the galaxy file. It calculates the sky value of the image. It writes a file the pseudo FITS file $DATID.coo that contains original FITS header, sundry other keywords and the location of the detected fiducial stars.