As of mid Jun2019 I have reduced 174 acm images through the point of sky surface brightness evaluation. These images are taken from 29 nights in 2018 and 2019. In addition to reducing more nights with a moon at about 50% illumination, some of the new images use the acm B filter. Hence, in this latest data set I have more variation in the data: another filter, different moon conditions, some errant exposure times (EXPTIME .l1. 0.1 sec). In this analysis I want to address the same basic questions having to do with plotting the data:
The images are in: /home/sco/acm_SBSKY (see list.05) I do analysis in: /home/sco/scohtm/scocodes/Night_of_acm/Analysis/analysis05_jun13_2019/data % ls -1 /home/sco/acm_SBSKY/*fits > list.05 I make a table file with fits2table. Here is the PARAMS The PARAMS file is what determine what will be assembled i the table files. % cat PARAMS WAVELEN Filter wavelength (angs) UTHOURS Hours since 0hUT UTDATE UT date (YYYYMMDD) RSTRT Radius position of tracker at start (mm) AZHET HET structure AZ (deg) MILLUM percentage moon illumination PHIMOON angle of separation to moon (deg) ZPSEC ZP for a 1-sec exposure ZPERR mean error of ZPSEC SKYSB sky surface brightness (mags per sq.arcsec) SKYSBERR mean error of SKYSB To get tables: % ACM_ANALYSIS_TABLES list.05 PARAMS N Make a nice plot: % Generic_Points N # edit "xyplotter_auto.pars" % xyplotter_auto A1 PHIMOON SKYSB 20 N % xyplotter_auto A1 MILLUM PHIMOON 21 N
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A plot of acm g sky surface brightness (mss) versus the moon separation angle in dgrees. These data were taken from the datg table file produced with a run of ACM_ANALYSIS_TABLES. The dates of images reduced here were chose so that the moon phase was nearly always around 40 to 60 percent illumination. A normalization for moon phase will eventually be made so that the correlation between moon angle and sky surface brightness should tighten up. Here I have used the datb.table file to collect the plotted points. |
Belwo I use the new table mask tools to plot g,r,i,B sky surface nrightness, taken when the moon is down (PHIMOON=-99).
xyplotter_auto A1 AZHET SKYSB 30 N To make the selections: % table_text_mask A1 PSYSNAME g mask1 # select g observations % table_fprange_mask A1 PHIMOON -100.0 -90.0 mask2 N # only points when moon is down % masklogic.sh mask1 mask2 and mask3 N # make final mask % get_table_rows A1 mask3 g_NoMoon # Make the final table file of selected data Then I simply edit the List.30 file to add this set. % xyplotter List.30 Axes.30 N # view the full plot To do the 4 filters separately: % table_fprange_mask A1 PHIMOON -100.0 -90.0 mask2 N Collect g data: table_text_mask A1 PSYSNAME g mask1 masklogic.sh mask1 mask2 and mask3 N get_table_rows A1 mask3 g_NoMoon Collect i data: table_text_mask A1 PSYSNAME i mask1 masklogic.sh mask1 mask2 and mask3 N get_table_rows A1 mask3 i_NoMoon Collect r data: table_text_mask A1 PSYSNAME r mask1 masklogic.sh mask1 mask2 and mask3 N get_table_rows A1 mask3 r_NoMoon Collect B data: table_text_mask A1 PSYSNAME B mask1 masklogic.sh mask1 mask2 and mask3 N get_table_rows A1 mask3 B_NoMoon Make the plot: xyplotter List.30 Axes.30 NUsing the above procedure, I built the plot below for the 4 filters available when mookless, clear conditions were present.
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A plotbrated sky surface brightness in gmrmi,B measure from images taken under moonless and clear conditions. These acm images are taken from 29 nights in 2018 and 2019. The photometrc zeropints were calbrated using PANSTARRS photometry, after WCS calibration was performed with the USNOB-1.0 catalog. No attempt has been made to clean discrepant points. It was discovered that some image with extremely short exposure time still remain in this data set. |