VISIR_UTIL_QC(7)

💖 visir_util_qc(7) — the glow-up page for visir_util_qc 💖

okay bestie, sit down, hydrate, because we're about to talk about the visir_util_qc recipe from the VISIR pipeline and honestly? she's doing the most important little job. no cap. 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

visir_util_qc — preps your QC parameters from data where the beam has already been detected, and where all the bad images have been yeeted out. cleanup era. 🧹

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

esorex visir_util_qc [OPTIONS] FILE.sof

that's it. that's the whole vibe. esorex, the recipe, your options, your sof file. 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so the files you list in your Set Of Frames (aka the sof-file, you know her) must be tagged like this:

• VISIR-chopnod-corrected-file.fits with the tag BKG_CORRECTED

and the product(s) she spits out will carry a FITS card named ´HIERARCH ESO PRO CATG´ with a value of: QC_HEADER

that's the whole personality. she takes your beam-detected, bad-image-free, background-corrected files and stamps them with that QC header. iconic honestly. ✨

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

okay so here's the tea, and it's a short one:

• no options are listed here — but listen, 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. go read that, bestie, she ate. 📖

fr fr, esorex --help is your best friend here. don't skip her. 🙈

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

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

ftp://ftp.eso.org/pub/dfs/pipelines/visir/visir-pipeline-manual-1.4.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.

and!!! 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 visir pipeline are — and yes, we're listing every single one, because nobody gets left out in this group chat:

• visir_img_dark(7)
• visir_img_ff(7)
• visir_img_reduce(7)
• visir_img_trans(7)
• visir_old_img_combine(7)
• visir_old_img_phot(7)
• visir_old_spc_obs(7)
• visir_old_spc_obs_ech(7)
• visir_old_spc_phot(7)
• visir_old_spc_phot_ech(7)
• visir_old_spc_wcal(7)
• visir_old_spc_wcal_ech(7)
• visir_old_util_destripe(7)
• visir_spc_reduce(7)
• visir_util_apply_calib(7)
• visir_util_clip(7)
• visir_util_convert_weight(7)
• visir_util_detect_shift(7)
• visir_util_img_std_cat(7)
• visir_util_join(7)
• visir_util_repack(7)
• visir_util_run_swarp(7)
• visir_util_spc_std_cat(7)
• visir_util_spc_txt2fits(7)
• visir_util_undistort(7)

the whole friend group. squad goals. 💜

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⭐ VERSION ⭐

visir_util_qc 4.4.2 — yes she's on 4.4.2, she keeps herself updated. 💅

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💖 AUTHOR 💖

Julian Taylor <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>.

not me begging you to actually file the bug report instead of just complaining in the group chat 😭 they're literally asking for it, be so for real and tell them.

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🌈 LICENSE 🌈

this file is part of the VISIR Instrument Pipeline Copyright (C) 2012 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 02111-1307 USA

lowkey important: the no-warranty part is real real. she's free software and she comes as-is. no promises, no cap. 💀

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🎀 this was visir_util_qc version 4.4.2, straight from the visir_util_qc man page of the visir recipes — go forth and stamp those QC_HEADER cards, you absolute main character. slay, periodt. 💅✨