I'm trying to do an astrometric data reduction for some FITS images using the latest version of Astrometrica (4.5.1.377) but every time (regardless of the...
Awi
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May 3, 2009 11:10 am
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Hello Artur, Astroemtrica has a built-in check routine for WCS. One of the checks is that the reference value for RA must be between 0° and 360°, and the...
Hello Herbert, Normalization of CRVAL1 to the range 0 - 360 deg solved the problem. Thanks for the help, Artur Wieczorek...
Awi
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May 4, 2009 6:13 pm
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In IAUC 9040 it says "No information was provided about the comet's appearance." I have been wondering how we are supposed to do that with Astrometrica. What...
Just insert one or more short lines beginning with the characters "COM " after the first line of the astrometric report. You can also prefix with "CON ". The...
... "CON" is for "contact details". See section 41 of the MPC's Astrometry Guide: <http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/iau/info/Astrometry.html#contact> and ...
hello charles, richard, erik, bernard and herbert... and a lot of friends more here... the thing here is I cannot put any COM beacause I can only see a little...
Hi Gustavo, first of all compliments for this faint recovery. Second, of course you can comment the nature of the comet simply in this way: "stellar...
thank you lucca ! yes, I have a small showing example in my dekstop, about a giovanni one. but, in this case, over mag.20, was nothing interesting to say. I...
On numerous occasions I've somehow displayed differential coords in the status bar that are not 0,0 when I first press the Shift key. The status bar then...
Robert McNaught
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May 25, 2009 6:18 pm
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... Hmm... I tried for a while now and was not able to reproduce the problem. I press [Shift], then click somweher in the image. The differential coordinates...
... I can confirm the bug mentioned by Rob. I also get it regularly, though very rarely and because of this I was always too lazy to write a bug report. But...
... If you can provide any information on how to reproduce this problem, it would be extremely helpful. I have tried for quite a while yesterday, and it always...
... I do it like this and it works. But always you first run into the bug before you know it will occur :-) And then you need to press one time ZOOM OUT to...
It happened again last night on the only occasion I tried it. When the shift key is pressed, nothing happens, but when the left mouse key is pressed, the...
Robert McNaught
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May 27, 2009 4:12 am
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Hello, I have installed astrometrica on my laptop with windows Vista No problem but, when I do the update of MPCORB then I get the error message that comet 6P...
The comet should be in COMET.DAT not in MPCORB.DAT, an outdated COMET.DAT file? I hope this helps Best regards Juan Lacruz On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:10 AM,...
Hi Juan, ... Thanks for your reply. You have right about the comet.dat, id do the complete updat MPCorb + comet + unusal object + ... But i update the...
... Erik, I am not really sure when the error comes up: On down- loading the updated orbital elements, or when the orbits are read from the downloaded file by...
Hi Herbert, ... The error-message appears when the database (MPCorb and others...) are reading from the files (the bar 'reading MPCorb database...)is almost at...
... I just tried to update the COMET.dat here on my system, and it worked just fine. Maybe the file you have downloaded was somehow corrputed. Have you tried...
Hi Herbert, I have done some test, yesterday evening, clouds and raining here :(. First I deinstalled the complete program I Install it again and launch...
I have so far avoided to get infected by Vista... :-) Is anyone else here running Astrometrica under Vista? If so, do you encounter similar problems? Any...
I am using both PC and macs, unfortunately I have a mac laptop. I am traveling to Zambia for a conference, one of the activities is to introduce youngsters in...
Has been working fine for me under Vista Laptop. I usually run Astrometrica on my bigger XP-Pro machine, but when travelling and having to work on data, the...
Erik, Have you tried running Astrometrica on your Vista machine using "Windows XP Compatibility Mode?" If you right-click the Astrometrica icon, then select...
I run Astrometrica with Vista. No problems for me. Works great! Regards, John Sachs ... From: Herbert Raab To: Astrometrica@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, May...
I am running Vista but I normally manually download the COMET.dat and MCPORB.dat files and put them in the catalog directory never had a problem. David ... ...
Hello, First at all, i want to thank everybody to give me tips to resolve my problem. At the moment my problem is resolved. What i have don: - deinstalled...
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