SMARTS notes and REsources for RECONS (OUT-OF-DATE) Click here for updated link




Eliot-to-Aman SMARTS Fellow handoff: To-do list for Eliot and Aman


Processing of 0.9m data: June/July 2019 run (Todd)
August 2019 run (Andrew & Wei-Chun)
September/October 2019 run (Eliot)
December 2019 run (Todd)
February 2020 run (Leonardo)
December 2020 run (Leonardo)
January/February 2021 run (Leonardo)
March 2021 run (Leonardo)
May 2021 run (Leonardo)
August 2021 run (Fernando)
December 2021/January 2022 run (Fernando)
April 2022 run (Leonardo)
June 2022 run (Roberto & Rodrigo)
September/October 2022 run (Andrew)
October/November 2022 run (Aman & Todd)
November/December 2022 run (Todd)
February 2023 run (Eliot)
April 2023 run (Andrew)


SMARTS procedures: Copying data from CTIO to GSU and sorting it into /regions/
(OUT OF DATE) Moving data from CTIO to GSU, old method
Putting data on the FTP server
Location of iraf on ctio36


Astrometry Reduction procedures: Choosing ref stars
Briefly, making the starname.phot file for astrometry (ALMOST DONE but needs some tweaks)
Reducing a fresh never-reduced field
LaTeX template for setup pages (and telescope pointing)

(PDF) Full astrometry reduction manual/cookbook (Jao et al.)
Briefly, PSF photometry with IRAF (NEEDS UPDATE to be complete)
(planned) IRAF parameters screenshots for RECONS phot procedures
Bad pixels to watch out for when observing
(PDF) NEW astrometry pypline manual (last updated June 27)
(IRAF script) tagframes script (new pypline) (last updated Sept 24)
instructions for installing the tagframes script

(planned) Briefly, Astrometry reductions
(PDF) Copy of CCD phot manual including PSF (Massey & Davis)
(PDF) SExtractor Manual (Bertin)
SExtractor measurements page
SExtractor positional parameters page