SPIRAL command

NAME

spiral-spiral search program

SYNOPSIS

spiral [tries=5] [thresh=10000] [chan=0] [step=.020] [debug]

DESCRIPTION

spiral does a spiral search from the current position by making increasingly large number of .020 degree steps alternately in Hour Angle and declination. The maximum number of steps in a given leg the tries= parameter (5 is the default).

The search will stop when the count rate in channel 0 exceeds 10kHz. Both the channel and the threshold count rate may be adjusted on the command line.

In addition the command line options of the readphot command are available.


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Last Revised May 31, 2000