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    Optical/UV Detectors: S-Cam 2 Documentation

    The links on this page provide access to some technical notes relating to the analysis of S-Cam 2 data.

    • A technical note on the pipeline processing software, which takes raw S-Cam data and produces reduced output files and data products. The accompanying flowchart diagrams may be viewed here
    • Differential atmospheric refraction
    • Image centering
    • Atmospheric extinction and airmass formulae
    • Background subtraction
    • Tracking glitches
    • Energy calibration
    • Repairing corrupted FITS files
    • Simple seeing estimates
    • Telescope Oscillations
    • Responsivity Correction
    • Background behaviour for KL Dra and Fo And.


    Last Update: 01 Feb 2005

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