Munipack is designed as a software with easy-to-use of an user interface wrapping of a powerful processing engine. This page presents of basic usage.
Munipack's graphical user interface (GUI) can be invoked by running of following command (from a menu or using a graphical terminal)
bash$ xmunipack
One is intended for an interactive data processing and designed to be easy usable. Selected features are introduced on Features.
Any FITS file can be displayed directly by passing the file as an argument:
bash$ xmunipack IMG_5807.fits
Munipack's command-line interface can be invoked from a terminal by running
bash$ munipack
One is intended for an advanced usage. The processing of a huge data amounts or a scripting can be common tasks. Tutorial shows an example of that run.
The most typical invocation is in the form:
bash$ munipack action [options] files
User specifies the action, seldom options and files to work on its. The action is natural shortcut of an action (for example, dark correction). The options modifies a default parameters and provide a way how to fine tune of its behavior. The last argument files specify files to be processed. Usually as a names with wildcards (* or ?). Use dash (-) to read from a standard input.
If we will run command-line interface without parameters, the on-line help will be displayed:
MUNIPACK A general astronomical image processing software Usage: munipack [options] action [options] file(s) Actions: dark dark frame correction flat flat-field correction mdark average dark frame mflat average flat-field coloring color composition of frames ctrafo color transformations --version info about version --help brief describe of usage
The output contains the most useful information for usage. Try manual page for additional info:
bash$ man munipack
Some external utilities can be also used as additional tools.
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