Subject: y2k problems with IRAF that affect DISTOOLS

From: Gordon Richards

Submitted: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 13:45:02 -0600 (CST)

Message number: 76 (previous: 75, next: 77 up: Index)

Hi all,

For those of you that use my DISTOOLS package, you will need to
upgrade to v2.11.3 since there are y2k problems in APALL (among other
things).  DISTOOLS seems to work fine with v2.11.3 except you will
need to put the following line in your loginuser.cl file:

reset imextn='oif:imh fxf:fit,fits plf:pl qpf:qp stf:hhh,??h'

This makes ".fit" as the default FITS extension instead of ".fits".
This is necessary b/c I have hardcoded file names in my code.

Also, I have a new version of DISTOOLS that does telluric correction
and outputs spectra in vacuum heliocentric coordinates instead of air
geocentric.  I have been meaning to release this for months now.  Let
me know if you are interested.

Finally, assuming that the gains are still 0.99e/ADU and 1.50e/ADU, I
get the following RN values for DIS: 10.88e in the blue and 15.20e in
the red.


Gordon

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