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Extracting spectra from AAOmega observations

grigoris April 8, 2011 April 8, 2011

AAOmega (at Anglo-Australian Observatory) observations can be reduced with 2dfdrv4 tool pretty much very easilly. But the reduction ‘s final output is a combined fits image which includes all spectra from the 400 fibers. So, the user has to extra by himself/herself the spectra individually and this has been frustrating …

Astronomy

Reading fits headers within Starlink (.sdf files)

grigoris June 4, 2010 June 24, 2015

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 …

Astronomy