Chapter 4
A Prototype Pipe-Line Reduction Tool: Developed to Perform RIZ Photometry of Low Mass Stars in Praesepe1

Abstract
“Pipe-line Data Reduction” is the process of reducing data without human interaction. The process of creating a pipe-line reduction system involves writing software that is intelligent enough to make decisions that a human operator would make if they were to do to the reduction manually. A prototype PL was written to aid understanding of the problems involved in engineering software of such a complex nature. This chapter describes the construction and morphology of the prototype and explains the results output. It concludes with a discussion of the findings evident in creating the PL and ways to improve the production pipe-line.
If we can not find a way we will make one.
Hannibal Barca