NAME: starproc PURPOSE: Collect and process final (standard) star photometry DESCRIPTION: This program processes the accumulated stellar photometry into final averages. The data are generated by REDUCTOR and have been saved to the final output directory (set via PATH keyword). This program can reduce all stars in this directory or just one star. On starting the program, the contents of the photometry directory are scanned and a selection widget is presented. You can either choose a single object by its name or choose the item "ALL". If you do one object, it will be analyzed and plots of the data are provided. If you choose ALL, each star in turn is analyzed but no plots are generated. The photometry for each star is examined and a mean for each color is found. The mean comes from weighted average of all points. After the mean is determined, the photometry is examined against the mean. Any point found to be greater than 5 sigma from the mean is discarded and the mean is recalculated. If plotted, these removed points will plot with a different symbol (filled circle with overlayed asterisk). This point removal continues until no points are removed or 10 passes are made. The final uncertainty for the combined photometry is comes from taking the standard deviation of the data and dividing by the sqrt of the number of nights of data (NOT the number of points). My assumption is that the errors tend to be systematic within a night but random from night to night. Obviously, the photometry will not be particularly trustworthy until there are quite a few nights in the average. The final output file is a listing, one line per star, of the final averaged values. Left to right, the values are: Name, B (mag, err, npoints, nights, chisq), V (mag, err, npoints, nights, chisq), R (mag, err, npoints, nights, chisq), B-V (color, err) V-R (color, err) CATEGORY: Photometry CALLING SEQUENCE: starproc[,PATH=path] INPUTS: This is an interactive program, there are no explicit inputs. OPTIONAL INPUT PARAMETERS: KEYWORD INPUT PARAMETERS: PATH - Directory where the star data is located. Default is /net/frakir/raid/buie/photometry/stars OUTPUTS: output is written to a file ALL.DAT in the stars directory. KEYWORD OUTPUT PARAMETERS: COMMON BLOCKS: SIDE EFFECTS: RESTRICTIONS: PROCEDURE: MODIFICATION HISTORY: 97/02/27, Written by Marc W. Buie, Lowell Observatory 2004/02/09, MWB, changed default for PATH