"Bill J. Gray" wrote:

Hi Kevin,

   At what RA were you when this RealSky weirdness happened?  When I
attempt to get an image from RealSky South for any point south of
about +4 dec,  I get "no plates found",  which may just mean I haven't
wandered around to the right point in RA to duplicate this error.

   I also went into "Extras... Toggle User-Added Datasets" and turned
"RealSky South plates" to On.  It shows plates extending to dec +3,
roughly,  and no farther.  Dunno what's going on here.

 Kevin Cooper wrote:

"Has anyone come across this situation.
I was centered on a position wit a DEC of around +5 degrees and wanted
to display the RealSky image. I successfully displayed the field from
the north set. There appeared to be a plate defect on the image so I
tried for a south plate. It gave a disk number. I put that disk in and
it seemed to read it but no image appeared. Nor was a fits file added to
the Guide folder. On investigation, I found the southern plates end at
+3 degrees.

Kevin Cooper"
 

Hi Bill,

 
The objects I had the problem with was NGC 7731-7732. I had a level of 10. The north disk was
7. The south, 18. I think I had set the window to 30 minutes square.

    I know think I understand some of the issue. I have tried it again
and with the level at 10 and a 30 minute square window, no image appears
on the screen. However, if I go to a lower level, I see part of an image
of the edge of the plate. I can't remember if I tried a lower level
before, but I could not see a fits file in the Guide directory. I can
now.

    Do you consider it normal that Guide should show a disk if the
centre of view is not on the south plates but part of the window is?

Kevin Cooper