Target Lists

Target lists are a list of astronomical targets and alignment stars to be placed in a MOSFIRE mask confinguration. MASCGEN uses this list to determine the "best" configuration out of the targets given the constraints specified in the other inputs. "Best" in this case is the highest sum of priority scores of the targets in the mask. Each line in a target list must have the following format:
- Target Name (cannot contain spaces)
- Priority (set to -1 for alignment stars)
- Magnitude/Brightness
- Right Ascension (*see below for format)
- Declination (*see below for format)
- Epoch
- Equinox
Items are delimited using whitespace. Any additional data on the line is ignored. This makes the target list format consistent with other Keck instruments (e.g. DEIMOS, LRIS).

Blank lines and lines staring with the pound (#) symbol are ignored.

* Right Ascension and Declination can have the following formats (Note: fields with a period (.) in it indicate floating point numbers. There must be at least one digit to the right of the decimal point to parse correctly):

Right Ascension Declination
hh mm ss.s dd mm ss.s
hh:mm:ss.s dd:mm:ss.s
hh mm.m dd mm.m
hh:mm.m dd:mm.s
hh.h dd.d