The Output Data

The output data is a series of ``FIT'' images. You can view these images with programs like MaximDL or CCDOPS, but be careful not to change them in any way! Teasing the contrast or brightness or anything else so that the frame looks nice, will affect the quality of the data!! Apart from the frames, three other files will be created: one is a statistic of the download time versus time. This file is for us to know if anything went wrong during the download of the frames from the camera to the computer. The second file is the actual log that contains all the information needed to reduce the data and extract the seeing value and the third is information about your equipment and the location you observed. So when you send the data to the Observatory make sure that these three files will be sended as well. The files have extensions ``.dat'' and ``.jbn''. All the ``.FIT'' frames the ``.dat'' and the ``.jbn'' files are stored every time you run the programm in a folder like this one :

"c:\dimm\data\xx_x_xxxx_x_xx"

where the x directory is the date and time you run the script. So every time you run it, a different folder of this type is created. If you run the script five times in a single night then you will have five different folders in your data folder. You will be sending us all these folders for every time you run the program.