dspp-reader 1.0.0

Software for reading SQMs and TESS-W4C devices, used for measuring sky brightness.

Dark Sky Protection Photometers Reader

Overview

This package implements two console scripts read-sqmle and read-tessw4c

Those scripts implement very similar arguments. Use --help to get a list of usable arguments

The recommended way to make it work is through a configuration file, in order to create a configuration file use --config-file-example and to use an existing configuration file use --config-file <path-to-file.yaml>

Configuration file example

[!NOTE] This is not updated automatically, so always rely on --config-file-example

For TESS-W4C devices

site_id: ctio
site_name: Cerro Tololo
site_latitude: -30.169166
site_longitude: -70.804
site_elevation: 2174
site_timezone: America/Santiago
sun_altitude: -10
device_type: tess-w4c
device_id: stars1823
device_altitude: 45
device_azimuth: 0
device_ip: 0.0.0.0
device_port: 32
delay_between_reads: 30
read_always: false
save_to_file: true
save_to_database: false
post_to_api: false
save_files_to: /path/to/where/to/save/the/data
api_endpoint: http://<hostname>/api/tess-w4c
api_token: <get-an-appropriate-api-token>
file_format: tsv
save_logs_to: logs

For SQM-LE devices

site_id: ctio
site_name: Cerro Tololo
site_latitude: -30.169166
site_longitude: -70.804
site_elevation: 2174
site_timezone: America/Santiago
sun_altitude: -10
device_type: sqm-le
device_id: '1823'
device_altitude: 45
device_azimuth: 0
device_ip: 0.0.0.0
device_port: 10001
device_window_correction: -0.11
number_of_reads: 5
delay_between_reads: 30
read_always: false
save_to_file: true
save_to_database: false
post_to_api: false
save_files_to:  /path/to/where/to/save/the/data
api_endpoint: http://<hostname>/api/sqm-le
api_token: <get-an-appropriate-api-token>
file_format: tsv
save_logs_to: logs