Version 2.16 seems not accept FITS extension

Jianghua WU wrote on Apr 18, 2013

Hi everybody,

I have several multi-extension FITS images. I want to use noao.imred.echelle.apflatten to check the flat image. Here is the command and the output of IRAF:

echelle> apflatten HDSA00010439.fits[0]
Searching aperture database ...
Find apertures for HDSA00010439?  (yes): yes
Finding apertures ...
Number of apertures to be found automatically: 22
Warning: FXF: must specify which FITS extension (HDSA00010439)

When I use 'epa' to edit the parameters of apflatten and specify the input file as HDSA00010439.fits[0], the first interactive query also did not include the extension of the FITS file. What can I do?

BTW, I can use fxcopy to extract one of the extensions of the FITS file and run the apflatten.

Thank you!
jhwu

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Mike Fitzpatrick wrote on Apr 18, 2013

If this is new in v2.16 it may be related to the new image template code but is a behavior I haven't seen before. To go back to using the old code you can do

cl> reset use_new_imt = no

You can reset this value permanently by editing the hlib$zzsetenv.def file. Please let me know if this fixes the problem.

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