MSCRED database directory files for use with NOAO Mosaic Data 

========================== Release Notes ======================================= 02/09/04: V4.3 01/15/04: V4.3 New calibration files. 10/24/02: V4.2 New Mosaic1 crosstalk and bad pixel masks. New Mosaic2 WCS solutions. 5/18/01: V4.1 The keyword editing to the CTIO masks was done with the wrong version of IRAF making the files unreadable. The symptom is a segmentation violation when trying to access the files. The CTIO masks have been convert to the correct format. 4/23/01: V4.1 The CTIO bad pixel masks lacked the IMAGEID keyword to identify the extension to which they belonged. Even though an explicit filename is given in the data CCDPROC will not accept the bad pixel mask unless the keywords match. This behavior of CCDPROC will be changed. This version of MSCDB has the keyword added to the CTIO masks. 3/06/01: V4.1 This version adds a KPNO crosstalk file derived from Feb 2001 data. It is very similar to the previous version. The data headers continue to point to the Sep. 2000 file. 2/28/01: V4 This version adds CTIO 16ch crosstalk. 1/7/01: V3 This version adds bad pixel masks for CTIO Mosaic 9/1/00: V2 This version adds new crosstalk for KPNO Mosaic This is the mscdb for semesters 2000B/2001A with KPNO Mosaic. If new calibrations are made there will be updates. 8/21/99: V1 This version adds files for the CTIO Mosaic and the WIYN Mosaic. It allso adds the WCS database files for all current instruments. The WCS files can be used to reset the WCS using the task MSCSETWCS.

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mscdb.tar.Z When reducing NOAO/Mosaic data with the MSCRED package various setup and calibration files are used. These include the instrument header translation files, default parameter setup files (used by SETINSTRUMENT), the current crosstalk correction coefficient file, the current default bad pixel masks, and the current WCS solutions. These files are in this compressed tar file.mscdb.tar.Z. To extract the files

% mkdir mscdb
% cd mscdb
% zcat [path]/mscdb.tar | rtar -x

This will create a directory mscdb in the current directory.  The
path to this directory is defined in hlib$extern.pkg when installing
the MSCRED package.  It can also be defined or overridden by the
user either in login.cl, loginuser.cl or interactively.