CCD Reductions

• Introduction
• Nature of CCD Output
• General Overview of the package
• Setting, Storing, and Retrieving the CCD Keywords
• Calibration Frames and Naming Convention
• Setting up the Reduction Procedure
  • Loading the Telescope and Instrument Specifications
  • Data Retrieval and Organisation
  • The CCD Reduction Table
• Basic Reduction Steps
• Preparing Your Calibration Frames
  • Input and Output
  • Combining Methods
  • Combining Bias Frames
  • Combining Dark Frames
  • Combining Flat Fields
  • Combining Sky Frames
  • Combine Example
• Processing the Data
  • How the Data is Processed
  • Running REDUCE/CCD
    • Overscan correction and trimming
    • Bias, Dark and Flat Field Correction
• Special Processing Options
  • Illumination Corrections
  • Sky Illumination Frame
  • Sky Illumination Corrected Flat Field
  • Illumination Corrected Flat Fields
  • Fringe correction
  • Bad Pixel Correction
• CCD Test Commands
  • Purpose
  • Test Commands
    • TESTB/CCD
    • TESTF/CCD
    • TESTT/CCD
    • TESTD/CCD
    • TESTS/CCD
    • TESTC/CCD
• Miscellaneous
• Commands in the CCD package