Run LCO images of GT And through pipeline and try to reproduce the lightcurve

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Describe the science task

We want to run LCO images of GT And (the RR Lyra star we have from PTF) through the pipeline. The reason we want to do this is so that we can test the following:

• Roughly how long the pipeline takes with larger images with more sources
• See if the normalization method can be expanded to unfiltered images, and still reproduce the shape of the lightcurve (basically testing the generality of the filter system)
• Generally testing how generally the pipeline can be used. The FITS files are different, with different labels. Is the performance of the pipeline (determined by lightcurve and errors) affected? If so why?

Proposed Direction
Any ideas about how to accomplish this task or at least begin investigating.

• Identify which section of Andromeda GTAnd lies in (according to the secid script)
• See if we have more than one set of images for that section
• Check what the differences in the images are and make a note of that in this issue
• Run all of the images through the pipeline, note the time that you start running the pipeline and when it finishes (rough estimate of time taken)
• Run the images through the mags.py normalization script

Desired Results
What ultimate goal we want to achieve or data we want to have by the end.

• Ensure that the pipeline can handle basically any fits file, and if not what kind of preprocessing might be needed and see if we can automate that
• We want to see where the pipeline slows down the most, and how we can improve efficiency
• Identify and address any differences in results
• See generality of normalization script mags.py

Resources
Look at the Wiki for how to use the pipeline, and what the various steps are

Additional context
This is linked to Issue #82

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This issue is linked to Issue #120

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secid identified the section to be 14, and we do not have images of that section, and as of right now Andromeda is not visible with LCO instruments we have access to. We can look into the other RR Lyra in things we can image. Alternatively, we can ask Scott to image the region in question.