RE: Focus indication

[Tom Droege <tdroege@veriomail.com>]

This reminds me that I have not replied to the objections to the present 
file name format.  I am ending in .fits becaus DS9 demands it.  It does not 
display files in its file window unless the end in .fits

The long file name seemed like the thing to do at the time.  Arne, you 
still need to assign yourself a location letter.

I will respond to any reasonable file naming convention.  How about
location
filter
processing status
5 digits 2 JD, 3 JD milliday
.fits   or .fts

Or we could retain the present four letters and use four places of 
fractional day.  The day is useful when looking at a lot of stuff in one 
directory.  My practice is to never put two different days in a directory, 
so we may not need this.

I note that with short exposures, one runs the risk of a milliday not being 
short enough to separate two exposures.

Tom Droege


At 01:49 PM 6/13/01 -0600, you wrote:

>Well, there is that.  But I am happy to be contributing something, other
>than my personal musings of a reduction pipeline using SPS and my own
>database...
>
>I think part of the reason for the program I'm writing now is so when Tom's
>putting together boxes and solving problems, he can see immediately if there
>are issues with the images being taken.  Currently, the program is
>displaying a 200x200 box of each image in a set, with the colors in the