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+ The Aperture Photometry Package
+ ----------------------------------
+
+The apphot package contains routines which perform aperture
+photometry in circular and polygonal apertures using fractional pixel
+techniques. No point spread function fitting techniques are employed.
+The photometry routines are most suitable for use on uncrowded
+or moderately crowded fields.
+
+The apphot directory structure is listed below. The package organization
+is by task, for example the center subdirectory contains routines
+specific to the center task or by function, for example the nlfit
+directory contains the non-linear least squares fitting routines.
+The wphot task shares alot of code with the phot task. Similarly
+the polymark task shares some code with the polyphot task.
+The .h files are all in lib as many of them are shared by several tasks.
+
+ |-aplib---------apphot routines used by several tasks
+ |-aputil--------miscellaneous useful routines
+ |-center--------routines specific to centering, the center task
+ |-daofind-------routines specific to the daofind task
+ |-doc-----------apphot documentation
+|-apphot-----|-fitpsf--------routines specific to the fitpsf task
+ |-fitsky--------routines specific to sky fitting, the fitsky task
+ |-lib-----------apphot definitions or .h files
+ |-phot----------routines specific to the qphot/phot tasks
+ |-polyphot------routines specific to the polyphot/polymark tasks
+ |-radprof-------routines specific to the radprof task
+ |-wphot---------routines specific to the wphot task
+ |-test----------directory of test data
+
+
+Lindsey Davis
+NOAO IRAF GROUP
+November 1991