IRAF / IDL interaction?
Vallery Stanishev wrote on Feb 23, 2007
Hello
Not exactly IRAF question, but anywhere.... Does anybody know if there is IDL procedure that can read the IRAF spectral WCSs - multispec, etc.? I wrote one myself but it has not been tested extensively and I was wondering if there is something esle around. Thanks.
Vallery
Not exactly IRAF question, but anywhere.... Does anybody know if there is IDL procedure that can read the IRAF spectral WCSs - multispec, etc.? I wrote one myself but it has not been tested extensively and I was wondering if there is something esle around. Thanks.
Vallery
Mike Fitzpatrick wrote on Feb 23, 2007
Vallery,
If you don't get a specific IDL reference....The WSPECTEXT task or LISTPIX with wcs=world set will dump a simple text file of the spectrum I'm sure you can read easily. Otherwise, Google or the IDL astronomy library may be your best bet.
-Mike
If you don't get a specific IDL reference....The WSPECTEXT task or LISTPIX with wcs=world set will dump a simple text file of the spectrum I'm sure you can read easily. Otherwise, Google or the IDL astronomy library may be your best bet.
-Mike
Vallery Stanishev wrote on Feb 23, 2007
Hi Mike,
I've beed doing exactly that, and this is actually what I want to avoid;-) I would like to be able to operate on the FITS files directly. My IDL procedure seems to work fine. It works with Chebychev and Legendre polinomial, and linear and log-linear solutions, which is what most people use I guess. But as I said, the program is not tested much and I wanted to know if something else, well tested exists.
Vallery
I've beed doing exactly that, and this is actually what I want to avoid;-) I would like to be able to operate on the FITS files directly. My IDL procedure seems to work fine. It works with Chebychev and Legendre polinomial, and linear and log-linear solutions, which is what most people use I guess. But as I said, the program is not tested much and I wanted to know if something else, well tested exists.
Vallery
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