MAGAVER: Compute Weighted Means of Photometry from COMBINE



MAGAVER takes the output file from COMBINE when run with the CMB= option. It will ask the user which columns in this file correspond to which colors, and will do a weighted average of multiple observations in each color. Currently, only 3 different colors are allowed. If the PLOT keyword is specified, the magnitudes to be averaged will be displayed with a MONGO plot for each star. If the TTY keyword is specified, the user will be allowed to interactively remove points from each set of observations.

This command can also be used on output photometry files to merge them together into one file, for later use by FITSTAR. In this mode, the program will prompt for a file name, read the stars in from this file and output them to a new file, then ask for a new input file, from which to append the results onto the original output file. This can be used, for example, to merge all observations of standard stars from multiple frames into one file. The NORM keyword will normalize all the measured magnitudes to a standard exposure time, assuming the exposure is stored in the data file.