hetAZinfo

Compare PAS header abd DEC-derived quantities like AZ and HETQ.


% hetAZinfo --help  
Help Information for:  hetAZinfo

Usage: hetAZinfo 20161124T074840.2_acm_sci.fits 
arg1 - Name of (PAS) FITS images

I will show: /home/sco/sco/codes/bash/HELP_FILES/hetAZinfo.help

Enter any key to roceed with the view of help:

hetAZinfo: 
   Pull structure azimuth and Ra,Dec infor from a PAS FITS header. 
   Compute a parallactic angle, HETQ. Compare these values (AZ,HETQ) 
   that are computed with my old codes that use DEC alone. 

% hetAZinfo /home/sco/HET_work/acam/acam_nov2016/20161124/20161124T015416.5_acm_sci.fits
 0.903674 2.289 1.88481 4.76937 65.616901 -1.385326 -2.884560 E 

% cat hetAZinfo.explain
Col01 = STRUCTAZ, structure azimuth from header                                   
Col02 = AZfromDEC, azimuth based on declination                                   
Col03 = HETQfromAZ, parallactic angle from structure azimuth                      
Col04 = HETQfromDEC, parallactic angle from structure azimuth based on DEC        
Col05 = DECDEG, declination in degree uni ts                                      
Col06 = STRUCTAZ - AZfromDEC                                                      
Col07 = HETQfromAZ - HETQfromDEC                                                  
Col09 = side of sky relative to meridian                                          
STRUCTAZ, AZfromDEC, HETQfromAZ, HETQfromDEC, DECDEG, AZdif, HETQdif, direction   





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