Finding Chart Input List (http://www.astro.washington.edu/deutsch/apo/guider/fchart.inlist) If you are FTPing an input list to UW, any notes and comments for this input list may appear above the dashed line; do not bother to delete all these comments as they will be ignored by the processor. However, if you are using the Web for input box, do NOT include the header, just the data rows. Instructions: For each intended target, supply the targetname, RA DEC (J2000), Chart Style, Field Size, and DSS file (optional) in the table at the bottom of this file. When you're done, see http://www.astro.washington.edu/deutsch/apo/guider/fchartform.html on how to submit this batch request. Utterly baffled? Send email to deutsch@astro.washington.edu. WARNING: Do not use TABs at all in your table! TABs may look okay in your editor window, but it will confuse the processor and your job will fail. If you get an error like "% Variable is undefined: DI.", check your input list for TAB characters. Targetname may be any designation (this field, stripped of all non-alphanumeric characters will be used as a filename, so each entry should be alphanumerically unique.) RA,DEC must be in sexagesimal format in J2000; spaces or colons may separate the numbers. Chart Style must be FC. Do not put anything else in this column. Users of APO and MRO may notice that this input list is very similar to the GAC input list. They, in fact, go through the same processor, so this column is interchangeable with instrument designation. FldSize is the desired finding chart field size in arcminutes. You may choose any size from 2 to 60. Please only use as large a field as you need. Users of APO and MRO may notice that this input list is very similar to the GAC input list. They, in fact, go through the same processor, so this column will be interpreted as an instrument angle if the previous column is an instrument instead of 'FC'. DSS File column entries may either be blank (no image used), contain "autofetch", or contain a filename of an *existing* file. If you put autofetch in this column, the images are automatically fetched from STScI. Also, the FITS files will be named the same as the other files, and will be made available via FTP when the batch job is complete. If you put a filename in the DSS File column, that image file must already exist on a local disk (at UW) before you run the job! These DSS images may be extracted from the Digitized Sky Survey (DSS) in FITS format (covering a region slightly *larger* than the chart size, centered on the target coordinates.) While the GSC stars are always extracted and included in these plots, the DSS image is optional (if this field is blank, no image will be used). DSS files can be obtained from your local CD-ROM set or on the Web from STScI at: http://stdatu.stsci.edu/dss/dss_form.html. The DSSDIR= keyword below must contain the directory in which the DSS images are stored (unless you're not using images, or using autofetch). The value of "/incoming/apoguide" will access ftp://ftp.astro.washington.edu/incoming/apoguide for images. Anything else is assumed to be a local disk designation here in the UW Astro unix cluster. If the line does not begin with "DSSDIR=" it is ignored (so if you put a # in front of this line, it is ignored). This feature is not available in the Web input list form; only FTP'ed submissions may use this feature. DSSDIR=/incoming/apoguide #DSSDIR=/host/orca/scr/tmp/username Do not remove the column headings or the dashed lines below!! The processor uses these to determine that the comments are over and the data begins. In case you were thinking otherwise, let it be clear that each field must fit in the space allotted by the dashed lines (going beyond the space allocated for each column is a good way to make things go wrong). And again, don't use TABs! Target Name RA (2000) DEC Styl FldSize DSS File (opt) ----------------- ------------------------ ---- ------- ------------------- NGC 6939 offset 1 20 33 23.00 +60 41 55.0 FC 5 autofetch G77-61 03 32 37.933 +01 58 04.4 FC 10 autofetch