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The Moving Object Pipeline: discovery & tracking of trans-Neptunian objects
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Comments in reals. #294

Open ijiraq opened 10 years ago

ijiraq commented 10 years ago

This functionality allows free-form comment line entry which get tacked onto the ast line. We now have limited room due to the longer entries we now have for that DAOPHOT results. Brett is not sure of when there will be a DAOPHOT entry (there are E-block lines without them, but perhaps never on the dicovery triplet). In any case, it seems there are 23 characters left if the "UUUU %" string is kept, or 29 if that string is eliminated. [Is that string error codes from DAO phot? Is the % a separator?] Comment entry mechanism should thus enforce length.

mtbannister commented 10 years ago

The % is a separator. I think UUUU was going to be for the quality of the astrometry, if we still want that in comment lines.

mtbannister commented 10 years ago

The length is enforced in the final compilation steps that send out the astrometry to Brett/JM, but that can result in truncated comments.