On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Tim Jenness wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Andy Gibb wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Brad Cavanagh wrote:
>>
>> > I'd probably use MATHS. As long as you don't want to add more than
>> > 26 NDFs together, it'll do what you want.
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Brad.
>>
>> Hi Brad,
>>
>> Aha - that would do the trick.
>>
>> Actually I think it would be entirely possible to exceed 26 images in
>> the SCUBA-2 pipeline - for DREAM/STARE mode the pipeline will have to
>> process up to 60 files in one go - but it would be easy to split a
>> list into n and then add. And that will be a much smaller number of
>> calls than adding them in pairs.
>
> We already hit the limit in CCDPACK MAKEMOS some times.
The limit should be considerable more than 60 images (in principle up to
400 I think). The real constraint for CCDPACK has always been the
requirement for memory, especially when you also want to process
variances.
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Peter W. Draper, http://astro.dur.ac.uk/~pdraper
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