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Shutter Tuning

Building a photometric shutter can be a complicated task. The goal is to expose every pixel of the CCD for the exact same window of time. However, since we have to live within the bounds of reality, we must cope with the fact that the shutter cannot physically open and close instantaneously. The next best option is to expose every pixel for the exact same amount of time.

Organizing JSON output

There might be something to say for defining interfaces up front. Spending over one day cleaning up and re-organizing JSON output throughout multiple subprojects can be quite tedious. Once again, sed proved helpful, but sometimes it's harder to make sed perform like the scalpel than to run a quick grep search and manually edit.

Despite the tedium, it's nice to end up with a cleaner, compliant interface. These are a few of the things fixed:

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