Preparing to merge this repository into a combined astrophotography
repo. session-scripts/ becomes pipeline/ because the scripts import
layout.py from their own directory and must stay together, and because
'pipeline' says what it is rather than how it came about. observing/
stays at the top level: observing plans are not processing code.
layout.path() treated every argument as a filename, so asking it for a
directory - layout.path('final'), which the rendering scripts do - built
a path to a file called 'final' INSIDE final/ and created an empty
final/final along the way. Directory names now resolve to the directory
itself.
Three scripts also held path literals split across two lines with
implicit string concatenation, where the rewrite had replaced only the
first fragment and left a dangling continuation. verify_core.py,
mo_gccheck.py and mo_mpc.py are corrected; all 52 files now compile
without warnings.
subdir_readmes.py writes a short README into each session subdirectory
saying what it holds, where it came from, and whether it is safe to
delete. Those three facts are what someone opening a folder cold needs,
and they belong with the data rather than in this repo.
Re-verified after the fix: closeup.py and triptych.py run end to end
against the reorganised session and leave no stray directories behind.
The scripts that processed the NGC 5128 session of 2026-07-21 previously
lived inside the data directory and addressed it with absolute paths.
Code and data are now separated: the code lives here, and a session is
located at runtime through the ASTRO_SESSION environment variable.
layout.py is what makes that work. It maps a FILENAME to the
subdirectory that file belongs in, using the same rules the session
directories are organised with, so a script can go on asking for
'master-Red.fit' or '_stars.npz' without any call site knowing the
directory structure. Anything unrecognised resolves to the session root,
which is visible and correctable rather than silently wrong.
restructure.py reorganises a flat session directory into that layout. It
is idempotent and dry-run by default.
The 50 session scripts are kept as they were run rather than tidied into
a library. They were written in sequence as the work went along, several
of them by parallel agents, and they show it - but they are the honest
provenance of a published set of results, and the productionised pipeline
should be able to reproduce those results exactly.
Verified before committing: all 51 files compile without warnings, and
verify_core.py, closeup.py and triptych.py were run end to end against
the reorganised session, correctly finding inputs across calibrated/,
stacks/masters/ and final/ and writing outputs back to the right places.
