CCD Reductions

• Introduction
• Nature of CCD Output
• General Overview of the package
• Setting, Saving, and Retrieving CCD Keywords
• Calibration Frames and Naming Convention
• Setting up the Reduction Procedure
  • Loading the Telescope and Instrument Specifications
  • Data Retrieval and Organization
  • The Association 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
• Additional Processing
  • Sky Illumination Corrections
  • Creation of Sky Correction Frames
  • Illumination Corrected Flat Fields
  • Fringe correction
  • Bad Pixel Correction
• Mosaicing of Frames
• Miscellaneous
• Commands in the CCD package