NAME: occproc PURPOSE: (one line only) Aperture photometry of occultation data DESCRIPTION: This tool is for an initial aperture photometry extraction of a single source from a set of FITS images, usually from a stellar occultation observation. It is currently designed for use on data taken with the QHY174M-GPS camera. However, the only thing specific to this camera is the use of BACKSUB.PRO that removes a row-by-row level from the image to eliminate the detector bias striping. The philosophy here is to build a tool that makes it fast and easy to process good quality data that are collected in the recommended fashion. It is NOT intended to help you through the possibly agonizing process of dealing with challenging data whether due to dodgy weather conditions or errant observing procedures. This GUI is designed to work from a master root directory under which all different occultation campaign results are stored. In this directory there must be a helper program, getddir.pro, that will return a valid location for data given a relative directory. This is designed to allow off-site and on-site reductions as well as not requiring all data to be co-located. The calling sequence for this routine is: getddir,rdir,ddir where rdir is the relative directory that will be provided by the user through the GUI. ddir is then the name of the top level directory where that rdir can be found. In the local directory the top level has directories that are named for each project. Inside each project directory the output files that are generated for that project are stored here. There is a master configuration file (config.dat) that applies to all data for the event. This contains the name of the event and the UT date. Each site has its own configuration file (ending in .dat). There is one file for each time/site combination that has per-site configuration. The included information is an estimate of image quality, the aperture used for photometry, and the position of the target star in the first frame. The files ending in .lc are the actual lightcurve files. The columns: 1 - index number 2 - JD of image mid-time 3 - normalized flux 4 - X position 5 - Y position 6 - FWHM in pixels The precision of the timing stored in the file is good to about 0.1 msec. There are two levels for the nomenclature of datasets to process: Project: This refers to a string that will identify the event. There can be many datasets within one project. Examples are something like 'LE20181114' or 'RECON79'. However, this string is just a string and not parsed for content. This string must not contain spaces and really shouldn't contain anything other than letters and numbers. Dataset: This refers to the data collected at a single site. The typical case here will be the name of a camera or a system but could be a site or team name as well. This depends entirely on the project. Again, this is just a string with the same restrictions and suggests as for the project string. If there is only one site it is automatically selected. Otherwise, you have to select your site (look until the File menu). Similarly, if there is only one dataset (time), that is automatically loaded. More than one you have to select. The first 20 frames are used to determine a baseline for the target star signal. After that is done, there is a threshold set of 10% of the baseline. If the star drops below this threshold, it's position is not updated based on the previous exposure. This lets it step over a short occultation signal without losing positional lock on the target star. Otherwise, the program will track the star as is moves slightly from frame to frame. If it moves too much between frames it will lose lock. Data like this falls into the category of "difficult" and isn't (yet) supported. Likewise, if the occultation is very long and the field drifts too much while the star is missing, it will lose lock. CATEGORY: Photometry CALLING SEQUENCE: occproc INPUTS: OPTIONAL INPUT PARAMETERS: KEYWORD INPUT PARAMETERS: OUTPUTS: KEYWORD OUTPUT PARAMETERS: COMMON BLOCKS: SIDE EFFECTS: RESTRICTIONS: PROCEDURE: MODIFICATION HISTORY: Written by Marc W. Buie, Southwest Research Institute, 2020/01/13 2022/02/14, MWB, Small tweak to show the sky signal level from a probe 2022/08/10, MWB, major overhaul to add comp star measurements, some prior support files may no longer be compatible, (mostly the .dat for a given dataset). 2022/08/27, MWB, significant cleanup and debugging 2022/09/22, MWB, add a tool to mark all measurements as invalid to reset back to the beginning on the current object 2022/09/25, MWB, bug fixes on tracking, adding tool to step by measured positions 2023/02/13, MWB, minor bug fixes on display and setting maxfac 2023/03/14, MWB, split bad flags on raw data off into its own file, this will quietly convert the old files into the new format if encountered. 2023/03/15, MWB, added toffset to config.ini file options 2023/04/03, MWB, fixed a minor bug in the window menu event handler. 2023/11/07, MWB, introduced a minimum noise level in the image, set at 3 DN. This bypasses odd behavior when the background noise in the image isn't properly sampled. 2024/01/26, MWB, added a tool to build a PSF for each good image in the dataset.