#  Python-interactive IRAC/MIPS BCD saturation recovery
#  T. Jarrett
#  Version:  Sep 25, 2009

This utility may be used to identify and rectify saturated stars located within IRAC * MIPS-24 BCD images.
It uses a set of Python and Fortran tools that were developed with MacOSX running unix. 

Usage example:

python ./BCDsaturation.py SPITZER_I1_12106496_0014_0000_2_bcd.fits BCDsaturation.par

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Python installation:

The following set of Python libraries need to be installed
for this utility to run:

numpy
pysao
pyfits
scipy
pylab , matplotlib


Fortran instructions:

The "cfitsio" and "wcstools" libraries need to
be installed for the fortran to compile properly.
See "make_g95" for an example compiling script.




