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<span id="index-0"></span><h1>Making track curve<a class="headerlink" href="#making-track-curve" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p>A track curve (track-list curve) is a graph of spatial offset of CCD frames, as a function
of time. Such curve is used to monitor the stability and precision of telescope
mount and its clock drive.</p>
<p>You can use the C-Munipack software to make a track-list curve from a set of
CCD frames of a star field. As a result of the matching step during the reduction of
input frames, an offset relative to a reference file in axes X and Y are stored
to photometry files. The Track-list tools uses this information to make a graph of
offset in X and Y axis respectively, as a function of time.</p>
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<h2>How to make a track-list curve<a class="headerlink" href="#how-to-make-a-track-list-curve" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ol class="arabic simple">
<li>Process source CCD frames by normal way of reduction till star matching.</li>
<li>In the <em class="guilabel">Tools</em> menu, select the <em class="guilabel">Make track-list curve</em>
item. A new dialog window with a graph appears. The Julian date is on the horizontal
axis of the graph and the offsets in pixels are on its vertical axis.</li>
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<p>The graph consists of two data columns:</p>
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<li><em class="guilabel">OFFSETX</em> - offset in horizontal direction, positive values mean
the shift to the right, negative to the left.</li>
<li><em class="guilabel">OFFSETY</em> - offset in vertical direction, positive values mean
the shift to the bottom, negative to the top.</li>
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<img alt="Track-list curve" src="_images/tracklist.png" />
<p class="caption">The “Track-list” curve that shows the periodic error of the telescope
mount. The periodic error is caused by eccentricity of a tooth wheel and
demonstrates itself as a sinusoidal signal in the track-list curve. Note that
several superimposed sinusoidal signals are present on the picture, each with
different period and amplitude. By finding the period of the signal, you can
tell which tooth well is eccentric.</p>
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<h2>Trimming outliers from the curve<a class="headerlink" href="#trimming-outliers-from-the-curve" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>Is is possible to manually trim outlying observations from the curve.
You can select an individual point by a right click, you can also
select more than one point by pressing a Shift key and left mouse button
and drawing a rectangle in the graph. Then, click the right mouse button
on a point in the selection to open the context menu. There are two options:
When you select the option <em class="guilabel">delete from data set</em>,
the selected measurements are removed from the current curve, the
data will be shown when you make another track curve or <em class="guilabel">Rebuild</em>
the actual curve. The other option <em class="guilabel">remove from project</em>
means that the frames corresponding to the selected measurements are removed
permanently from the list of input files (see: Main application window) and
such measurements won’t be included in any other output. It is not allowed
to remove a reference frame.</p>
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