STEPS to reduce ANU 2.3m Echelle data. 1. make lists to make before processing: alllist - to be overscan corrected and trimmed by ccdproc biaslist - biases to be combined flatlist - flats (QI) to be combined zerolist - images to be zerocorrected with ccdproc (all but biases) unflatlist - images to be flattened (arcs and objs) arclist objlist 2. get rid of (delete) DATASEC and CCDSEC with hedit set gain - 2 e/ADU, readout noise = 4.6 electrons (only necessary if lacos_spec is used) in headers (wrong): BIASSEC = '[1:50,1:1074]' / Bias section - user specified TRIMSEC = '[51:2148,1:1074]' / Trim section set in ccdproc the measured values: BIASSEC = '[7:50,2:1024]' TRIMSEC = '[55:2100,2:1024]' 3. ccdproc: overscan correct and trim 4. zerocombine: combine biases 5. ccdproc: zero correct all images but the biases 6. flatcombine: combine flats (QI) 7. apflatten: normalize master flat before apflatten: epar apedit: set width = 20 epar apfind: minsep = 1 epar apresize: ylevel = 0.1 epar apresize: bkg = no no to auto finding apertures 8. ccdproc: flatten arcs and objs 9. setjd: arcs and objs update (hedit) IMAGETYP to 'comparison' for arcs 10. move arcs and objs to a collective directory, update master arclist and objlist in that directory with cat 11. doecslit: all the rest set the aperture reference to the first star (obj) spectrum order list: the bottom order goes from 6520-6720 you need three UCLES ThAr pages to cover one order e.g. orders 85-86-87 are needed for our bottom order there are a couple of orders that are not possible to identify with the arc atlas most of them are ok, but a few are simply too different or, more precisely, that's with UCLES there is a missing wavelength range that is not covered by the UCLES atlas ORD WAVEMIN WAVECENTR WAVEMAX FSR (A) (A) (A) (A) 65 3440.42 3467.09 3493.76 53.34 64 3493.84 3521.35 3548.86 55.02 63 3548.94 3577.33 3605.72 56.78 62 3605.78 3635.10 3664.41 58.63 61 3664.47 3694.75 3725.04 60.57 60 3725.08 3756.38 3787.68 62.61 59 3787.72 3820.09 3852.46 64.75 58 3852.48 3885.98 3919.48 67.00 57 3919.50 3954.18 3988.87 69.37 56 3988.87 4024.81 4060.74 71.87 55 4060.74 4097.99 4135.25 74.51 54 4135.23 4173.88 4212.53 77.29 53 4212.50 4252.62 4292.74 80.24 52 4292.71 4334.39 4376.06 83.35 51 4376.02 4419.35 4462.68 86.65 50 4462.63 4507.71 4552.78 90.15 49 4552.73 4599.66 4646.60 93.87 48 4646.53 4695.44 4744.35 97.82 47 4744.28 4795.29 4846.31 102.03 46 4846.22 4899.48 4952.73 106.51 45 4952.64 5008.29 5063.94 111.30 44 5063.84 5122.04 5180.25 116.41 43 5180.14 5241.08 5302.02 121.89 42 5301.90 5365.78 5429.66 127.76 41 5429.53 5496.56 5563.59 134.06 40 5563.46 5633.88 5704.30 140.85 39 5704.15 5778.23 5852.31 148.16 38 5852.15 5930.18 6008.21 156.06 37 6008.04 6090.34 6172.64 164.60 36 6172.45 6259.39 6346.33 173.87 35 6346.12 6438.10 6530.07 183.95 34 6529.85 6627.31 6724.77 194.92 Order 34 is our order 1 and then they go down in wavelength. change xorder and yorder to get dispersion fit residual rms of < 0.02 A/pix