Dear minor planet observers, with the purpose of continuing the line drawn by the three MACE meetings in the years between 2002 und 2004, we have the pleasure...
John, I tried to match your image with the star field around Altair using TheSky software. Unfortunately, most star catalogues based on images obtained with...
LN, thanks for the useful info. I'll follow it up and see what I find. The link to the image I sent was cropped from the original so I don't know the exact...
The "Image of the Month" for September 2005 is now fonline at the Astrometrica web site, <http://www.astrometrica.at>. Click on the thumbnail image on the menu...
I am trying to analyse two SXV-H9C files after conversion to mono (colour removal) but I get the error "can not read 32-bit float fits file". Any suggestions? ...
... Convert to integer, signed or unsigned, depending on how many bits (see link) you need. AFAIK Astrometrica cannot handle 32-bit or 64-bit floating point...
... Apparently, you saved the mono image to a FITS file that stores the image data using 32 bit floating point nubers. Astrometrica can not read such a file,...
Herbert, In that context, has the final format been established? There was a lively discussion about it on the mpml forum but since you have to write the code,...
... The new format has been established a while ago, but it won't ecome operational yet. It's a extension to the existing format that will be able to handle...
Hello Herbert I use Maxim, and it saves files as 16-bit integer files according to the settings. The camera is the SXV-H9C and the image was converted to...
... You can use the 'View - FITS Header' command in MaxIm to display the information stored in the file header. Among those lines, you will probably find the...
... Especially if you use version 3.x which has a bug and shows BITPIX = -32 even if you have a 16-bit signed integer file ;-) So don't rely on this info,...
My problem, reported earlier, about reading colour images from the SXV-H9C should not be a significant one for me. I shall routinely do binned images for...
Herbert In my astrometry of comets, I have a directory for each comet. For the numbered comets, to get the directories ordered by number in various software...
Dave, althoug I was unable to creat a folder names " 9P Tempel" with Windows Explorer (Explorer removed any leading blanks - I had to do that using the...
Folks, ... There is *no* need to create folder names with leading blanks. The current Windows versions will sort folders like "9P", "37P", "51P", 100P" etc. as...
I know its OK in Astrometrica. But in some other programs...... Dave Herald Canberra, Australia ... From: Reiner M. Stoss To: Astrometrica@yahoogroups.com ...
Thanks for this. I don't quite understand what is happening. If I have a single leading space, all works well. But if I have a double leading space, on closer...
Does the MPC need to know when you are binning pixels..? I haven't found any guidance in the Observational Details pages that suggests that you should include...
We aren't required to report pixel scale so I can't see how reporting Binning could be of any use to them! Cheers David ... From: Astrometrica@yahoogroups.com...
I was thinking we provided enough information that the scale could be determined but that's not the case since we don't state any specifics about the camera....
From a purely practical point of view I do not think that MPC is ready to modify their automated observation report handling software anytime soon. They are...
... I could be wrong but I'd wager that a lot of folks including myself are not using a scale of 1-2 arcseconds. My seeing is around 6" on a very good night...
Exactly my point. 'Scale' (arcsecs per pixel) is almost certainly related to the accuracy of our observations. The rule of the thumb of 2" per pixel (the one I...
Brand new Losmandy G-11 with Gemini. Huge improvement compared to Celestron CG-5. At a cost, of course. It follows an asteroid as I write this in my house - my...
Hi Herbert, If ever in the future these were possible..... The ability to enter RA and Dec coodinates into Astrometrica, and have a 'cross' or mark of some...
I would particularly like to support the 3rd suggestion - the ability to delete a measurement. You can do it by using the 'File / Load Text File' menu option,...
Just to clarify what I meant for point 3: I meant to delete the little circles on the screen not the line from the MPC report (although, as Dave says, that...
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