File Formats Required for Photometry

• Introduction
  • Stars
  • Observatory data
  • Telescope obstruction data
  • Instrumental data
  • Observational data
• Star tables
  • Required stellar data
    • Object name
    • Right Ascension
    • Declination
    • Equinox
  • Optional stellar data
    • Proper motions
    • Spectral types
    • Rough magnitudes
    • Comment column
  • Standard values
  • Moving objects
    • UT date --- column label: DATE
    • MJD --- column label: MJD_OBS
• Permanent telescope parameters
  • Column label: TELESCOP
  • Column label: DIAM
  • Column label: LON
  • Column label: LAT
  • Column label: HEIGHT
  • Column label: TUBETYPE
  • Column label: TUBEDIAM
  • Column label: TUBELEN
  • Column label: DOMETYPE
  • Column label: DOMEDIAM
  • Column label: SLITWID
• Horizon obstructions
  • Getting the data
  • Descriptor for the ``horizon'' table
  • MOUNTING= 'FORK'
    • Column label: DEC
    • Column label: OBSE
    • Column label: MOONE
    • Column label: OBSW
    • Column label: MOONW
  • MOUNTING= 'GERMAN'
    • Column label: DEC
    • Column label: TEOBSE
    • Column label: TEMOONE
    • Column label: TEOBSW
    • Column label: TEMOONW
    • Column label: TWOBSE
    • Column label: TWMOONE
    • Column label: TWOBSW
    • Column label: TWMOONW
    • Special remarks on German mountings
  • MOUNTING= 'ALTAZ'
    • Column label: AZI
    • Column label: OBSALT
    • Column label: MOONALT
• Instrument configuration and run-specific information
  • Storage format
  • General instrumental information
  • Passbands
    • Columns BAND and NBAND
    • Column FILTCODE_ n
    • Column NDVALUE
    • Column NDETUSED
    • Columns REDLEAK, RLTYPE, and MAKER
  • Instrument descriptors
    • Filter descriptors
    • Descriptor NFILTCAR
    • Character descriptor FILTCAT
    • Character descriptor FILTSTAT
  • Detectors
    • Columns NDET and DETNAME
    • Column DETCODE
    • Column DET
    • Photomultipliers: DET= PMT
    • Column COOLING
    • Silicon photodiodes and CCDs: DET= SILICON
    • Other detectors: DET= OTHER
  • Telescope optics
  • Sample instrument files
    • A simple photometer
    • A modern single-channel photometer
    • A modern two-channel photometer
    • CCD photometry
• Observational data
  • Required observational data
    • What was the measurement?
    • What was measured?
    • Bandpass and detector identification
    • Timing information
    • Comment field
  • Additional information
    • Temperature and humidity data
    • Pressure
    • Measuring aperture
    • PMT Voltage
    • Gain steps
    • Geneva parameters
    • Seeing
    • Error estimates