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Help with a simple zerocombine scriptStarted by:tasso1db, 07/22/2016 05:38PM
Hello,

I am trying to write a very simple
reduction pipeline for my schools
observatory. However I am getting the
following error: "Too many positional
arguments for 'zerocombine'" on line 12.
I'm slightly confused as to how I could
have too many ar...

791

By: fitz

07/22/2016 05:45PM

Xgterm cannot be executed on MAC OS X...Started by:ongole.geeth, 06/09/2016 08:05AM
I have installed iraf on my mac os x el
capitan and have installed x11 according
to the procedure.But when i try to
execute the xgterm & command it
shows an error saying " cannot execute
binary file".Kindly solve this.
Thanks in advance .

1908

By: ongole.geeth

07/18/2016 10:58AM

imstack for different galaxiesStarted by:michgradstudent, 06/30/2016 04:30PM
I want to stack 50 different galaxies on
top of each other, each having different
central coordinates and in very
different parts of the sky.
I'm trying to calculate the cumulative
light from all of them, and stacking is
a nice way to do this.

Is th...

821

By: fitz

07/09/2016 03:36AM

GEOTRAN error?Started by:zech2453, 06/16/2016 06:53PM
When executing GEOTRAN after generating
the database file from GEOMAP, it does
visibly nothing to the input image as
seen from the output image. Only when I
manually key in the values in the
database file, replacing the "INDEF"
keywords in the GEOTRAN U...

1644

By: valdes

06/20/2016 08:16PM

broken imdelete Started by:kanaan, 06/19/2016 03:34PM
hi Guys,

I am sure this must be really stupid, I
have been fighting this since yesterday
though.

I cannot imdelete files in my system. I
was just using !rm instead, but within
mscred some of the scripts run imdelete
then I cannot circumvent the ...

834

By: kanaan

06/20/2016 12:00PM

Tasks not recoginzing subsections in ...Started by:dagorym, 06/17/2016 04:59PM
I'm trying to do a simple listpixels
command like this:

listpixels image1.fits[234:244,124:134]

and instead of giving me just the pixels
in the subsection specified, it's giving
me all the pixels in the file. It's
like it's not even recognizing t...

660

By: fitz

06/17/2016 08:48PM

Can't open files on mounted disksStarted by:dagorym, 06/03/2016 11:28PM
I have a computer that has 3 drives in
it. The first contains the operating
system and all it's associated
directories. The second two are mounted
as data drives off the root (/)
directory.

Iraf works just fine on files on the
system drive but when...

1128

By: fitz

06/04/2016 12:20AM

MSCSETWCSStarted by:dopitz, 05/26/2016 07:05AM
Hello

I am trying to apply a WCS Database
(created by someone else) to other
exposures. I am doing:

mscred

for(i=1;i

883

By: dopitz

05/26/2016 07:05AM

xgterm/iraftermStarted by:sastanford, 05/13/2016 06:36AM
When running interactive tasks such as
apall or identify, most (but not all) of
the keystroke commands do not work
within the irafterm window. For
example, if I want to resize the display
area using "w" and then "e" the graphics
terminal recognizes the...

1120

By: sastanford

05/13/2016 06:36AM

CCDPROC and Zero/flatcombine QuestionStarted by:chaorun, 05/10/2016 05:35PM
Hello everyone.
I am a new graduate student, Use
irafv216 in MacOS 10.11.4.
My Question is :

When I process FITS files using CCDPROC,
ZEROcombine,flatcombine.
I will get the good output files.
BUT there is no screen output to show
what the progra...

735

By: fitz

05/11/2016 05:11PM

Overwriting issueStarted by:Jean-Gab, 05/03/2016 05:35PM
Hi,

I'm using IRAF 2.16 on OS X Yosemite,
and I've got an issue when I try to
overwrite on fits already existing.
(ERROR: Cannot open file
(/tmp///.IMT504)). I've checked on the
forum and haven't found any solution yet
(which was working).

My prob...

1384

By: Jean-Gab

05/09/2016 07:42AM

login.clStarted by:Arthur Babcock, 04/18/2016 05:03PM
I have been installing 64-bit 2.16 in
64-bit Ubuntu 14.04, and have had a few
problems. I appear to have successfully
installed xgterm.STATIC.

1. I'm not sure this is a problem, but
I'm not sure ecl is loading login.cl. If
I run mkiraf in my home dir...

2575

By: Arthur Babcock

05/06/2016 12:33AM

No command line for xgtermStarted by:JoshuaJoseph, 04/30/2016 04:40AM
I have installed IRAF on Mac (I needed
to disable the SIP firstly to allow
mkiraf to install the iraf.h file in
/usr/include/) and when I open an xgterm
and 'ecl' to open IRAF, I get this
window:

[img]/Users/joshuajd/Desktop/iraf_screenshot[/img]
...

819

By: fitz

05/05/2016 10:21PM

IGI doesn't start...Started by:fabvitali, 04/29/2016 09:05AM
Dear Sirs,

I have set up an automatic procedure to
reduce the infrared images from the
REMIR camera at REM (La SIlla). In this,
I would like to use the IGI graphic
interpreter but I can’t even start
using it. I am using the EXPORT V2.15.1a
IRAF ver...

630

By: fitz

05/05/2016 10:09PM

mscgetcat segmentation violation with...Started by:travisrector, 03/30/2016 11:15PM
Hello-

When I run 'mscgetcat' with the catalog
set to usnob1@noao (as shown below):

input = TEaug292015.64819 List of
Mosaic files
output = sh2-170.usno Output
file of sources
(magmin = 9.) Minimum
magnitude
(m...

1576

By: travisrector

04/19/2016 07:28PM

Display OverlayStarted by:CosmicLettuce, 03/27/2016 12:40AM
I'm using DS9 and the 'display' task to
display some large (4096x4096) solar
images and an overlay that marks
particular features.

When I do this:

cl> displ image.fits 1
overlay="image.plot" ocolor="red" zs-
zr+ fi+

Where 'image.plot' is a list...

1263

By: CosmicLettuce

03/27/2016 02:08AM

PyRAF and DAOPHOT - ERROR 851 Started by:gmaravel, 03/13/2016 06:09PM
Hello to all!

I have noticed an error when using Pyraf
and the psf command of DAOPHOT. The
error is
ERROR (851, "Cannot restore graphics
world coordinate systems")

and I keep getting that when the script
is attempting to plot the stars to
select...

2610

By: fitz

03/17/2016 02:21PM

SDO DataStarted by:CosmicLettuce, 03/10/2016 01:44AM
Hello!

Do you have any suggestions on how to
deal with these compressed FITS tables
from SDO? I'd like to convert them to
regular uncompressed FITS images.

Here are some examples:

http://jsoc.stanford.edu/data/hmi/fits/2016/03/09/

Much Than...

1197

By: CosmicLettuce

03/10/2016 02:22AM

PANIC in `/iraf/iraf/bin.macintel/voc...Started by:sastanford, 03/01/2016 06:03AM
I'm getting this error message when
running the task "simulator" in the
external ucsclris package. I've just
done a new install of iraf, on a Macbook
Pro running Yosemite, following these
instructions:

http://www2.lowell.edu/users/massey/Macsoftware...

1975

By: sastanford

03/02/2016 06:57PM

mscred.ccdproc in V2.16 gives ERROR b...Started by:smart, 02/26/2016 10:09AM
I have "upgraded" from IRAF V2.14 to
V2.16 (ecl to vocl) and my code that
worked on the old version does not work
anymore.
I have the old version on another
machine and I checked it is something
that has changed in this upgrade.

The data is ima...

1346

By: smart

02/29/2016 07:52PM

Dispersion axisStarted by:sapna, 01/31/2016 09:42AM
Can any one tell how to check whether
the dispersion axis is along line or
along column ?

1809

By: fitz

02/01/2016 05:31PM

cosmic lacos problemStarted by:sapna, 01/28/2016 07:11PM
I have a script: cosmic.cl as:
!ls *bf.fits> c.in
!sed "s/bf.fits/bfc.fits/g" c.in> c.out
!sed "s/bf.fits/bf.pl/g" c.in> bad.in
string *list1
string *list2
list1="c.in"
list2="c.out"
list="bad.in"
task
lacos_spec=/scisoft/share/iraf/extern/stsd...

1425

By: sapna

01/29/2016 04:45AM

Floating point overflow problem with ...Started by:Richard, 01/26/2016 08:50PM
Hi IRAF People,

I am using msccmatch to match catalogue
stars to mosaic camera data
and after I remove the offending
outliers that were found during the
matching process it asks me:

Accept solution?

I say yes and it throws the error:

ERROR...

1593

By: Richard

01/28/2016 02:36PM

Starting IRAFStarted by:ircarrascal, 01/22/2016 06:58PM
I did an mkiraf inside /home/ivan/IRAF
and then a script like this:

cd ~/IRAF
xgterm -sb -title "Image Reduction and
Analysis Facility (IRAF)" -e "ecl"
&

which I saved in my bin directory as
"iraf" so that when I type "iraf" in the
terminal ...

1780

By: ircarrascal

01/27/2016 03:50PM

LACOS ProblemStarted by:sapna, 01/04/2016 05:04AM
I am from India , I am using lacos_spec
package for removing cosmic rays for my
spectrum, I have 5-6 files (fits file)
in a directory in which I am using this
package, but I need to run lacos_spec
one by one for each file. Is there any
way in which i ca...

1288

By: sapna

01/27/2016 06:00AM

Which precession model?Started by:Sergei Schmalz, 01/17/2016 10:45PM
Hello!

Which precession model is used by the
'precess' task of the 'noao.astutil.'
package? If it's the one suggested by
the IAU in 1984 (based on IAU 1976
system of astronomical constants), then
are there any plans to replace it by a
newer model IAU...

831

By: fitz

01/17/2016 10:58PM

FITS kernelStarted by:shaw, 12/21/2015 10:52PM
I'm trying to select FITS MEF files
based upon information that is split
between the PHDU and the HDUs. For
whatever reason, the file from the
(Gemini) archive has INHERIT=F. I
thought clever use of FITS kernel
features would allow me to use hselect
to ...

824

By: fitz

12/22/2015 03:10AM

CCMAP & WCS & PIXEL SCALEStarted by:Diego Farías, 12/17/2015 02:46AM
I have a question guys... Does CCMAP
have a limitation of pixel scale (as a
fitting parameter)? I'm working with
images of 0.125 arcsecond/pixel and I
have encountered problems with CCMAP and
plate solutions.

As a 'safety test', I've tried to
const...

704

By: Diego Farías

12/17/2015 02:46AM

Help with WCSStarted by:Diego Farías, 04/28/2015 04:47PM
Hi everyone, I'm new in this forum and I
would like you to give me some advices
about a problem I've had with WCS:

I have a set of FORS2 polarimetric
images, and for some reason the WCS is
messed up in the slits; for this I'm
using a reference image ...

1370

By: Diego Farías

12/16/2015 10:27PM

Bug in IRAF install scriptStarted by:astrorafael, 12/15/2015 03:32PM
Hi:

I have found a small bug trying to
install IRAF. Running instal script
--system gave me an error in line 1006

Installed IRAF wSystem account with bash
as the SHELL

Patched the script like this

[code]1006c1006
< if (( "$err_seen...

672

By: astrorafael

12/15/2015 03:32PM

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