imcopy cannot open image

manolis.r wrote on May 13, 2014

Can anyone help me?

I am using imcopy to make cutouts of a large image. The problem is that if I use a file (e.g. image_in) in the input keyword it can't read the image.

The parameters I am using are:

input = @image_in

output = @image_out

verbose = yes

The "image_in" file is a text file containing one line: image.fits[111:222,333:444]

The "image_out" file is a text file containing one line: ouFile.fits

The message I get is: ERROR: cannot open image (image.fits[111:222,333:444])

What makes it more strange is that if I have "image.fits[111:222,333:444]" as input and "ouFile.fits" as output, i.e. if I don't go through the text files it runs fine. I know I can just skip this step, but the whole thing is part of a script and it is not that easy...

Any help is welcome...

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Mike Fitzpatrick wrote on May 13, 2014

Try first doing:

cl> reset use_new_imt = no

Depending on your iraf version you may be seeing a bug in the new image template code, you example appears to work fine in the latest release. The above command reverts to the old template code.

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manolis.r wrote on May 13, 2014

Thanks, it works now!

Life is good again :-)

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