NAME: ephcheck PURPOSE: Compare a set of astrometry observations against an ephemeris. DESCRIPTION: CATEGORY: Astrometry CALLING SEQUENCE: ephcheck,objcode,obs,astfile INPUTS: objcode - Standard object code for ephemeris to check against. See EPHEM. obs - Standard observatory code (see RdoBSCOD) OPTIONAL INPUT PARAMETERS: astfile - Raw astrometry file to read and compare to ephemeris, default is "objcode.ast" where the input objcode is first stripped of the leading prefix character. If the file name ends in .ted, it is assumed to be a Ted Bowell format file and is read with rdtedast instead. KEYWORD INPUT PARAMETERS: PLOTIT - Flag, if set will cause the information to be plotted as well. LOWESS - If provided and greater than zero, will cause a lowess plot to be superimposed on the plots and the smoothing width will be set to the value given (in days). This keyword is ignored if PLOTIT is not set. OUTPUTS: All information is printed to screen. KEYWORD OUTPUT PARAMETERS: COMMON BLOCKS: SIDE EFFECTS: RESTRICTIONS: PROCEDURE: MODifICATION HISTORY: 1998/01/14, Written by Marc W. Buie, Lowell Observatory 2007/10/31, MWB, added PLOTIT keyword and added some printed output 2007/11/20, MWB, added LOWESS keyword 2011/02/02, MWB, minor formatting tweak to protect against short file names 2013/09/03, MWB, added ephemeris error information to the printout 2016/06/01, MWB, allow string input for observatory code 2017/04/25, MWB, added support for reading Ted astrometry files