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Hello!I'm in what has already been called here an "iraf moment". I am trying to use FIXPIX to interpolate a few bad pixels, specified in a mask created by the task CCDPROC. I can only get fixpix to interpolate through columns. This produces very wierd results as I have a few image artifacts in which the interpolation is made only in one column Even if I force interpolation to be made through columns in the whole image, only the same pixels are corrected. I started by using the usual values for the BPM (2=line interpolation, 3= column interpolation). I tried to use 1 and 2 instead, respectively, both in the creation of the mask and in the interpolation process (CCDMASK and FIXPIX) and I have exactly the same result.
I found a strange thing, which can be completely unrelated and only reported here due to my ignorance, but here it goes. If I dispay the mask in a ds9 window with the commanddisplay mask.pl 1 zscale- z1=0. z2=2.0and use the pixel table, for instance, I find that the pixels do not have the value of 1 and 2 but 0.984925 and 1.96985...I am using Iraf 2.13-BETA2 in MacIntel.Just let me pose an additionat question: How can I change a mask into a textfile in order to check/change the pixel values?Thank you very much for your support and my best wishes to you all.Pedro FigueiraP.S.: I think this problem is related with one reported a while ago in a older version of IRAF.

Hello all again!I checked that the problem is also present if we perform the same tasks in a Sun Workstation. I suspect that i may be something wrong in the way bad pixel masks are created by CCDMASK... If I use a oldschool pixel mask, defined in a text file, interpolation seems to work. Let me hear your opinion,Pedro

Hi Pedro,I'll leave it to Frank to comment on a possible FIXPIX/CCDMASK bug, I'm sure it would help him if you could post a sample mask (or URL to one). As for some of your other questions:[quote:ed29703d55]I found a strange thing, which can be completely unrelated and only reported here due to my ignorance, but here it goes. If I dispay the mask in a ds9 window with the commanddisplay mask.pl 1 zscale- z1=0. z2=2.0and use the pixel table, for instance, I find that the pixels do not have the value of 1 and 2 but 0.984925 and 1.96985... [/quote:ed29703d55]When displayed to DS9 from IRAF, DS9 doesn't show the actual pixel values but shows an approximation based on transforming the z1/z2 values to the 200 grey level used in the display. You might try to display with "ztrans=none"[quote:ed29703d55]How can I change a mask into a textfile in order to check/change the pixel values? [/quote:ed29703d55]Pixel masks are treated just like images, so tasks like LISTPIX an EPIX will work. Hope this helps.Cheers,
-Mike

Thank you very much for the clarification on the ds9 issue.In what concerns the interpolation, I found out that the bad pixel mask was poorly built. I'm working with commissioning data and the quality is many times below recomendable... It was not a fixpix problem at all. I'm very sorry for the misunderstood. However, I have a new question.. "And now for something completely different":How do you evaluate a FITS header keyword that has the character "-" in its name? If I do something likeecl> hedit("@object_1.txt", "MJD-N", '(MJD-OBS)', add+, update-, show+, ver-)I have "ERROR: Image header parameter not found (MJD)". I cannot duplicate the value of the keyword MJD-OBS because he ignores the "-" and everything after it... I tried several possible combinations of ", ', \ and voodoo and nothing worked. I bow to your knowledge.All the best,Pedro

Pedro,See the description of the '@' operator in the HEDIT help page (and the examples). You would need to do something like[code:1:e9801e3fa0]cl> hedit("@object_1.txt", "MJD-N", '(@"MJD-OBS")', add+, update-, show+, ver-)
[/code:1:e9801e3fa0]-Mike