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Flats for AAVSO
When the scheduler is running, it will take both Dawn and Dusk flats at the appreciate times. Currently, it is set up to take B, V, R, and Open flats.
The auto flat script looks in the following files for what type of flats to take at Dawn and at Dusk.
/Users/admin/Documents/ACP Astronomy/Plans/SchedulerDawnFlats
/Users/admin/Documents/ACP Astronomy/Plans/SchedulerDuskFlats
Note - the file reads “bottom to top”, so anything at the bottom will get observed first then whatever is at the top will get observed last. The “Open” flat was moved to the bottom since by the time scheduler got to the open flats the sky is usually too bright for Open and thus fails.
Additionally, the filter has to be verbatim to the filter as it is listed (capitalization included). So the open filter needs to be listed as “Open” in the SchedulerDuskFlats file.
Once taken, these files will be placed locally on the TMO Desktop at:
/Users/admin/Documents/ACP Astronomy/Images/AutoFlat
And then can be found online here via the Astronomy Cluster