16 March  1994
Mark-III version information

The MKIII K-Coronameter MK3) has been in operation since 1980. Since the start
of the project much progress has been made in understanding the calibration of
polarimeters. Changes in both the instrument and calibration technique have
led to a series of versions of the data. Currently all MK3 images have an
ascii footer at the end of the data array. You may view the footer (on a UNIX
operating system) by typing: 

tail -20 imagename

Please note that daily images with the ascii footer are in the ftp directory:

   ftp/mk3/img/daily/year/month/quan
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   the qual directory contains sun rasterfile format images and they do NOT 
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   have a footer.


There are roughly 3 versions of the data:

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1. Those images that do NOT have the footer attached and/or end in filenames:

	*.rq
	*.srq

    These are the VERY OLD calibration and should be discarded. If you have 
    images of this type please contact someone at HAO and we will re-calibrate 
    them for you.
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2. Those images that have a footer 



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