NAME

       visir_util_img_std_cat - Convert ASCII-file(s) to a FITS standard star catalog

SYNOPSIS

       esorex visir_util_img_std_cat [OPTIONS] FILE.sof

DESCRIPTION

       This  recipe  generates  a  FITS  standard  star  catalog  for  imaging  from  one or more
       ASCII-files.  Each line in the text  file  must  have  at  least  8  fields  separated  by
       white-space.  The first field is the star name, e.g.

       ´HD108903´  which will be stored in a table column labeled ´STARS´.  The next 3 fields are
       the RA (hh mm ss) which will be stored in degrees in a table column  labeled  ´RA´  -  all
       three  are  non-negative  and hh and mm are integer.  The 3 next fields are the DEC (dd mm
       ss) which will be stored in degrees in a table  column  labeled  ´DEC´  -  all  three  are
       non-negative,  dd  and  mm  are integer, while dd has either a ´+´ or a ´-´ prepended (in-
       cluding -00).  The next field is the spectral type which will be stored in a table  column
       labeled  ´SP_TYPE´.   Every  field  after  the first 8 are the JY values for the supported
       filters, and may be a mixture of image  or  spectral  filters.   All  JY  values  must  be
       positive.   For  each  filter  the  JY  value is stored in a table column labeled with the
       filter name taken from the first row of column headings or, if there  is  no  1st  row  of
       column  headings,  using a list of 44 filter names hard-coded in the recipe (in which case
       the number of JY fields must be exactly 42 or else  an  error  is  printed  and  execution
       ends).

       As  mentioned, the 1st row may be a list of column headings.  If this row is supplied, the
       1st 4 fields will be ignored (but dummy values must be supplied anyway), and  every  field
       after  those  will  be  used  as the column label in the output table for that column´s JY
       values.

       Lines beginning with a hash (#) are treated as comments.

       The ASCII-input should be tagged IMG_LINES_ASCII, but all input files  will  currently  be
       processed regardless.

OPTIONS

       Note  that  it  is possible to create a configuration file containing these options, along
       with suitable default values. Please refer to the details provided by the 'esorex  --help'
       command.

SEE ALSO

       The  full  documentation  for the visir pipeline can be downloaded as a PDF file using the
       following URL:

              ftp://ftp.eso.org/pub/dfs/pipelines/visir/visir-pipeline-manual-1.4.pdf

       An  overview  over  the  existing  ESO  pipelines  can  be   found   on   the   web   page
       https://www.eso.org/sci/software/pipelines/.

       Basic documentation about the EsoRex program can be found at the esorex (1) man page.

       It  is  possible  to  call  the  pipelines  from python using the python-cpl package.  See
       https://packages.python.org/python-cpl/index.html for further information.

       The  other  recipes  of  the  visir  pipeline  are   visir_img_dark(7),   visir_img_ff(7),
       visir_img_reduce(7),  visir_img_trans(7), visir_old_img_combine(7), visir_old_img_phot(7),
       visir_old_spc_obs(7),           visir_old_spc_obs_ech(7),           visir_old_spc_phot(7),
       visir_old_spc_phot_ech(7),        visir_old_spc_wcal(7),        visir_old_spc_wcal_ech(7),
       visir_old_util_destripe(7),        visir_spc_reduce(7),         visir_util_apply_calib(7),
       visir_util_clip(7),        visir_util_convert_weight(7),       visir_util_detect_shift(7),
       visir_util_join(7),   visir_util_qc(7),   visir_util_repack(7),   visir_util_run_swarp(7),
       visir_util_spc_std_cat(7), visir_util_spc_txt2fits(7), visir_util_undistort(7)

VERSION

       visir_util_img_std_cat 4.4.2

AUTHOR

       Lars Lundin <https://support.eso.org>

BUG REPORTS

       Please  report  any  problems  to  https://support.eso.org.  Alternatively, you may send a
       report to the ESO User Support Department <usd-help@eso.org>.

LICENSE

       This file is part of the VISIR Instrument  Pipeline  Copyright  (C)  2004,  2005  European
       Southern Observatory

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of
       the GNU General Public License as  published  by  the  Free  Software  Foundation;  either
       version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

       This  program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY;
       without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR  PURPOSE.
       See the GNU General Public License for more details.

       You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program;
       if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor,  Boston,
       MA  02111-1307  USA