Starlink has its own image format (the NDF format, .sdf extension) which is not perhaps so convenient as the fits format. Nevertheless, there are ways to read the contents of the fits headers of your .sdf files, depending on the program you are working with. With KAPPA you can use …
In order to get the mean value of column 1 (or any other) you type: $ awk ‘BEGIN{s=0;}{s=s+$1;}END{print s/NR;}’ file In order to get the standard deviation of column 1 you type: $ awk ‘{sum+=$1; sumsq+=$1*$1} END {print sqrt(sumsq/NR – (sum/NR)^2)}’ file or $ awk ‘{delta = $1 – avg; …
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