GIFRAMESTACK(7)

✨ GIFRAMESTACK(7) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the giraf recipes manual page for giframestack 💖 this is the one, the icon, the moment. grab a boba, we're doing Unix lore 🧋✨

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💅 NAME

giframestack — Creates a stacked image from a set of raw images.

(no cap, that's the whole job description and she does it flawlessly 🫶)

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🌸 SYNOPSIS

esorex giframestack [OPTIONS] FILE.sof

that's it. that's the incantation. esorex walks in, giframestack does her thing, and the FILE.sof is the set-of-files list you hand her at the door 🎀

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🦋 DESCRIPTION

TBD 💀

literally. the original says TBD and I am NOT about to invent lore that isn't there, that's not the vibe. the mystery is part of her charm, iykyk 🙈✨

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👑 OPTIONS

okay so here's the whole menu of flags, every single one, no skips, no cuts, periodt 💅

• --stack-method <str> — the stacking method, and your choices are average, median, minmax or ksigma (str; default: average). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is giraffe.stacking.method [default = average].
• --stack-ksigmalow <float> — Lower threshold multiplier for method ksigma (float; default: 5.0). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is giraffe.stacking.ksigma.low [default = 5.0].
• --stack-ksigmahigh <float> — Upper threshold multiplier for method ksigma (float; default: 5.0). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is giraffe.stacking.ksigma.high [default = 5.0].
• --stack-minreject <int> — Minimum rejection level for method minmax (int; default: 1). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is giraffe.stacking.minmax.minimum [default = 1].
• --stack-maxreject <int> — Maximum rejection level for method minmax (int; default: 1). The full name of this option for the EsoRex configuration file is giraffe.stacking.minmax.maximum [default = 1].

side quest alert 🍓 it is possible to create a configuration file containing these options, along with suitable default values. Please refer to the details provided by the esorex --help command.

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🔥 SEE ALSO

the full documentation for the giraf pipeline can be downloaded as a PDF file using the following URL:

ftp://ftp.eso.org/pub/dfs/pipelines/giraffe/giraf-pipeline-manual-2.11.pdf

An overview over the existing ESO pipelines can be found on the web page:

https://www.eso.org/sci/software/pipelines/

Basic documentation about the EsoRex program can be found at the esorex (1) man page 🧚

It is possible to call the pipelines from python using the python-cpl package. See:

https://packages.python.org/python-cpl/index.html

for further information.

The other recipes of the giraf pipeline are gimasterbias(7), gimasterdark(7), gimasterflat(7), giscience(7), gistandard(7), giwavecalibration(7) — the whole friend group, love that for them 🌈

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⭐ VERSION

giframestack 2.16.10

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🎀 AUTHOR

Giraffe Pipeline <https://support.eso.org/>

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😭 BUG REPORTS

Please report any problems to <https://support.eso.org/>. Alternatively, you may send a report to the ESO User Support Department <usd-help@eso.org>.

(they're nice, i promise, go tell them if something's broken 🫶)

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💜 LICENSE

This file is part of the GIRAFFE Instrument Pipeline
Copyright (C) 2002-2014 European Southern Observatory

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301
USA

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and that's the whole page, bestie ✨ this was giframestack, version 2.16.10, hanging out in section 7 of the manual, written up for the giraf recipes collection, dated 2.16.10 like the footer says 💖 go stack something beautiful 🦋🎀