Weekly Work Writings: 2025-01-27

Weekly Work Writings for 2025-01-27

I'm going to start these weekly entries to track progress on work projects and get in the habit of regular note taking.

Monday

Goal for the week: Improve pointing, distortion, and general pointing algorithms in Thuban.

It should be:

• Easy to use
• Well documented
• Able to recover a distortion map from many images
• Handle the PV for AZP correctly
• Recover pointing within 0.1 pixels for PUNCH synthetic images with a demonstration of performance

I started outlining a new interface for Thuban, so it's less clunky and filled with a million parameters on each function. I also want the solver to handle all the cases (with or without distortion solving, etc.) in one interface.

Tuesday

Not much to report. Continued work on Thuban.

Wednesday

Started updating simpunch, punchbowl, and punchpipe to be less rigid. I want to switch over to using my own scheduler, mestolo, so I don't have to create a scheduler and such for every new flow/data product.

Thursday

Document writing, more thuban, and trying to understand coordinate system shenanigans.

Friday

Making new synthetic PUNCH data!