MCLocate

Read an astropy table containg RA’s and Dec’s

Space Telescope Science Institute

Synopsis

Read an astropy table containg RA’s and Dec’s and return the field and tile located cose to each object

Command Line Usage

usage: MCLocate.py [-h] [-out whatever] filename

where -h prints this documentation and quits
and  -out whatever prints the output to a file named whatever.
(if this is missing then the output file will be X+filename

Description

The routine is hardwired to look at MC_tiles.txt in

the kred/config directory.

The input table needs to have fields with columns named ‘RA’, and ‘Dec’ with the positions of objects in degrees.

The routine finds the field and tile closest to each position and adds that (and the separation to the output table, which will be printed to the scrren, and written to a file.

Primary Routines

doit

Notes

The routine does not check that that the object is actually: in a tile; it just reports the distance in arcmin to the closest tile.

Version History

240422 ksl: Coding begun

Functions

`doit`([filename, output])
`steer`(argv)	Just a steering routine

Module Contents

MCLocate.doit(filename='aida.txt', output='')

MCLocate.steer(argv): Just a steering routine