<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN"> <!--Converted with LaTeX2HTML 98.1p1 release (March 2nd, 1998) originally by Nikos Drakos (nikos@cbl.leeds.ac.uk), CBLU, University of Leeds * revised and updated by: Marcus Hennecke, Ross Moore, Herb Swan * with significant contributions from: Jens Lippmann, Marek Rouchal, Martin Wilck and others --> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>The Automatic Path</TITLE> <META NAME="description" CONTENT="The Automatic Path"> <META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="vol2"> <META NAME="resource-type" CONTENT="document"> <META NAME="distribution" CONTENT="global"> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <LINK REL="STYLESHEET" HREF="vol2.css"> <LINK REL="next" HREF="node103.html"> <LINK REL="previous" HREF="node91.html"> <LINK REL="up" HREF="node86.html"> <LINK REL="next" HREF="node98.html"> </HEAD> <BODY > <!--Navigation Panel--> <A NAME="tex2html2676" HREF="node98.html"> <IMG WIDTH="37" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="next" SRC="icons.gif/next_motif.gif"></A> <A NAME="tex2html2673" HREF="node86.html"> <IMG WIDTH="26" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="up" SRC="icons.gif/up_motif.gif"></A> <A NAME="tex2html2667" HREF="node96.html"> <IMG WIDTH="63" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="previous" SRC="icons.gif/previous_motif.gif"></A> <A NAME="tex2html2675" HREF="node1.html"> <IMG WIDTH="65" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="contents" SRC="icons.gif/contents_motif.gif"></A> <BR> <B> Next:</B> <A NAME="tex2html2677" HREF="node98.html">SKY/ROMAFOT</A> <B> Up:</B> <A NAME="tex2html2674" HREF="node86.html">How to use ROMAFOT</A> <B> Previous:</B> <A NAME="tex2html2668" HREF="node96.html">ANALYSE/ROMAFOT</A> <BR> <BR> <!--End of Navigation Panel--> <H2><A NAME="SECTION00843000000000000000"> The Automatic Path</A> </H2> Above, the interactive photometry of stars in a frame has been described. Although instructive, this procedure is impractical if one deals with thousands of stars. Therefore, ROMAFOT provides automatic procedures to substitute the many interactive operations needed to obtain the same result. These automatic commands are very useful provided they are not used as black boxes. On the contrary, even following the automatic way, the user can take advantage of facilities offered by the interaction. <P> The first operation which can be performed automatically is the search of the objects. ROMAFOT performs the operation with two modules: the first one, <TT>SKY/ROMAFOT</TT>, maps the sky; the second one, <TT>SEARCH/ROMAFOT</TT>, detects the objects above the sky. <P> <BR><HR> <!--Table of Child-Links--> <A NAME="CHILD_LINKS"> </A> <UL> <LI><A NAME="tex2html2678" HREF="node98.html">SKY/ROMAFOT</A> <LI><A NAME="tex2html2679" HREF="node99.html">SEARCH/ROMAFOT</A> <LI><A NAME="tex2html2680" HREF="node100.html">GROUP/ROMAFOT</A> <LI><A NAME="tex2html2681" HREF="node101.html">FIT/ROMAFOT</A> <LI><A NAME="tex2html2682" HREF="node102.html">EXAMINE/ROMAFOT</A> </UL> <!--End of Table of Child-Links--> <BR><HR> <ADDRESS> <I>Petra Nass</I> <BR><I>1999-06-15</I> </ADDRESS> </BODY> </HTML>