Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2000 20:17:14 -0700
From: Jeff Munn
Subject: Re: SDSS Obs Log 51791 3Sep00
Jeff Munn wrote:
>
> s. a. snedden wrote:
>
> > We noticed when we did a goDrift with a flavor of ignore, the wrong
> > stripe information was put in the gang headers. This happens because
> > when the flavor is ignore, you are not asked for stripe info and a
> > default of 100,O is used.
> >
> > The issue here is that we should never have the stripe information go to
> > the gang headers from goDrift...the values should be taken from
> > ScanStripe instead, because that is where the telescope really is. In
> > tonight's case, it caused Skippy to fail, since Skippy looked for a
> > catalog that didn't exist, based on the header information. Once the
> > header values matched the actual values, all worked well.
>
> It would be trivial to add an optional -stripe argument to skippy, which if
> specified would override the value read from the GANG headers.  Would you like
> this option added?
I misspoke a bit.  There already is a -stripe argument to skippy, however it
won't fix the problem with ignore flavor.  However, it would be trivial to
change skippy so that the -stripe argument would fix the problem.