The background-subtracted MPC spectra are on disk at CfA. To read MPC data into PROS, the data must be extracted from the archive and then converted to a table format suitable for the PROS spectral package. To extract the spectra from sequence 3388 type
cfa#: setenv MPCDATA /data/mpc
cfa#: /soft/mpc/mpcpros.macro 3388 # outputfile is
# 3388.mpcpros
approximately 5 - 10 minutes are required to complete.
This is a NON-IRAF task
These data must now be converted to a table suitable for input to the PROS spectral package ( xlocal.mpc.mpcspec).
mp> mpcspec
input MPC file: 3388.mpcpros
root name for output file [root_obs.tab]: m3388 #output file is
m3388_obs.tab
mp>