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**  Find regions with relatively few bright and faint stars
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In IDL:

  .compile quat_funcs
  .compile get_mini_box
  .run find_attitudes

This produces star_density.dat.  Convert to rdb:

  ascii2rdb  star_density.dat > star_density.rdb

Sort and order for fields with no 8.5 mag stars or brighter:

 row < star_density.rdb n8_5 eq 0 and n10_3 ge 10 | sorttbl n9_0 n11_5 >! ordered_density.rdb

Find the unique locations (not closer than 5 degrees to any "better" (earlier) location

 find_unique.pl

Fix the formatting and change to a better name, and pretty print

 repair -exist -odark_attitudes.rdb out.rdb
 rm out.rdb
 ptbl -p0 < dark_attitudes.rdb > dark_attitudes.dat

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08-Aug-2005

dark_attitudes.dat and dark_attitudes.rdb have been manually updated 
to include the galactic and ecliptic coordinates of each suggested
attitude.