MDAGGALACTICPLANE(1)

👑 MDAGGALACTICPLANE(1) 👑

okay bestie so we're in the Montage manual pages, and this lil icon is mDAGGalacticPlane, living in section 1 of the manual. she's giving mystery, she's giving enigma, she's giving… undocumented 💀. let's get into it 💅

✨ NAME ✨

mDAGGalacticPlane — an undocumented module of the "Montage" package. no cap, that's the whole name section. she said "no description, only vibes" 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

here's how you'd summon her, exactly as written, no edits, periodt:

mDAGGalacticPlane survey band centerlon centerlat width height cdelt
workdir workurlbase urlbase

and there's also this second form, the -h one, which is a whole different lineup of args 👀:

mDAGGalacticPlane -h survey band hdrfile workdir workurlbase urlbase

so yeah — eleven-ish positional besties in the first one (survey, band, centerlon, centerlat, width, height, cdelt, workdir, workurlbase, urlbase), and a slightly shorter squad in the -h version (-h, survey, band, hdrfile, workdir, workurlbase, urlbase). write them down, don't freestyle 🎀

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so here's the tea, and I need you to sit down for it: this module of the Montage package is currently undocumented. like. fully. the manpage is out here being a mystery box 📦✨

and if you, yes YOU, have an idea what this is about — if you've cracked the code, if you've had a vision, if the lore came to you in a dream — please create a bug report for this Debian package. that's genuinely the ask. help a girl out 🫶

no, for real, this isn't a bit — the documentation just isn't there yet, and the manpage literally says to file a bug report if you can figure out what it does. that's the whole description. iconic in a cursed way ngl 😭

🌈 COPYRIGHT 🌈

2001-2014 California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California

and now the important part, because credit is due and we do NOT play about credit 💅:

if your research uses Montage, please include the following acknowledgement, and I'm putting it in quotes because it is word for word the vibe, okay:

"This research made use of Montage. It is funded by the National Science Foundation under Grant Number ACI-1440620, and was previously funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Earth Science Technology Office, Computation Technologies Project, under Cooperative Agreement Number NCC5-626 between NASA and the California Institute of Technology."

also, and this is a cute lil fun fact for your brain: the Montage distribution includes an adaptation of the MOPEX algorithm developed at the Spitzer Science Center 🦋

🎀 a lil sign-off 🎀

that's the whole page, bestie. this one shipped as part of Montage 3.3, and the date on it is June 2010 — so she's vintage, she's retro, she's an elder icon 👑. go forth, file that bug report, and slay 💖✨