Converting the data

The software needed to the conversion is in:

ftp://ftp.ast.cam.ac.uk/ssc/apmcat/cmer2fits/

1.

Edit the file apmcatrc to define various environment variables

2.

source apmcatrc

3.

Edit the script cmer2fits_ssc.csh to process all files or just a single field file eg 1393

4.

source cmer2fits_ssc.csh

If you want to modify the FITS format output format there are two ways of doing it:

1.

edit the subroutine apm_wrfits_record_longform in cmer2fits

2.

write a FITs to FITs conversion program and add this to the processing in cmer2fits_batch.csh