FLARE CATALOG TEMPLATE, PERL PROGRAMS, INPUT AND OUTPUT SAMPLES
Please consider automatic
input of your observatory's observing log information into
the Max Millennium Flare Catalog, as an alternative to manual input
using the web
form. An important advantage of this procedure is that we have
written software to automatically determine the NOAA active region
numbers and GOES events within your specified field of view, given
your observing log information.
For automatic input of your observatory's observing log information into
the Flare catalog, write a script to produce a
suitably named file in the format of the
Flare Catalog input template
and put it in a directory accessible by FTP.
Send to Dominic Zarro the
name and address of that directory, and he will pick it by ftp on an automated
daily basis whenever a new file is placed there.
There are many ways to write a script to produce automatically the input
file following the Flare Catalog input template.
If you already produce a text observing log at your observatory,
you may wish to automatically
process this log.
A sample of such an approach using a perl script is
linked here and is
available by anonymous FTP to
ftp://solar.physics.montana.edu/pub/canfield/perl_script.