joe Aug 18, 2003
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From: "Bill J Gray" <pluto@...>
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Sent: Monday, August 18, 2003 2:46 PM
Subject: [guide-user] A few replies
> Hi folks,
>
> Catching up on all sorts of things:
>
> Joe, for that CCD frame update, I didn't bother to post an entire
> update. All I did was to post the file that actually changed, in this
> ZIP file:
>
> http://www.projectpluto.com/ccds.zip
>
> That "Guide6" in the error report causes me to suspect you've got
> the original (or close to it) Guide 8 software in there. Shortly after
> Guide 8 came out, I got a report or two of that problem, and tracked
> down a couple of references to Guide 6 embedded in the program and
> changed them back to Guide 8. The current version may conceivably
> crash (hard as that is to believe!), but when it does so, it'll do
> it with a Guide 8 error.
>
> That indicates that you've got an older 'guide8.exe' mixed in with
> a newer 'ehelpext.dat'. (The latter is where the version date comes
> from.) Perhaps when the 'guide8.zip' file was unZIPped, only some
> files were extracted, but not others? Or perhaps the 'guide8.exe'
> _was_ extracted, then replaced with an older version from elsewhere
> (perhaps from the CD-ROM)?
>
> This would also explain why you're getting a crash. Mix an older
> 'guide8.exe' with some of the newer files (for example, a current
> .MAR file), and it'll crash right away: all sorts of things appear in
> the newer files that an older 'guide8.exe' wouldn't expect to see.
>
> Mark, the "solid ground" color can be changed. Just go to the
> Display... Backgrounds dialog and click on the colored square next
> to the "Show Horizon" option.
>
> Chris, I'll assume you mean "Charon", not "Canopus" (there is
> an excellent photometry/astrometry package by that name from Brian
> Warner). To get Charon to read this data, you have to do something
> that is not at all intuitively obvious: instead of using "Match to
> A2.0 (data on hard drive)", use plain "Match to A2.0". When you run
> Charon in this way, it still "thinks" in terms of getting data from
> the CD.
>
> I'll have to revise this chunk of the program heavily in any case,
> because I want it to accept B1.0 data downloaded from VizieR and UCAC-2
> data in the native format of that catalog. The current catalog selection
> method worked fine when there were only a couple of catalogs, but is
> becoming a real hassle; the only solution at this point is to scrap
> the old code and start from scratch.
>
> Josch, my guess would be that the PinPoint-ized images have WCS
> (World Coordinate System) data in the headers. I wouldn't go to the
> effort to add support for this to Guide just to get PinPoint images,
> but there are plenty of other sources of WCS-ized images. (For
> example, 2MASS images are available with WCS headers... and I may
> be able to grab them automatically, just like DSS ones.) So yes,
> this is apt to happen eventually. (Keeping in mind that "eventually"
> rarely means "soon"!)
>
> Laurent, there is indeed a "test update" posted at
>
> http://www.projectpluto.com/new.htm
>
> The only documented improvement on the page right now is the use
> of UCAC-2. I posted the update, mentioned this improvement to a few
> folks who had inquired about that catalog, and they've given it a
> try. It seems to work.
>
> Other improvements are included (anything on this mailing list where
> I said things such as "that bug is fixed" or "I've added this"), and
> I'll have to go back and add mentions of those things to 'new.htm'.
>
> Bill, my apologies for the delayed reply to your private e-mails...
> yes, that line ought to read "geocentric" rather than "heliocentric".
> (Or it ought to give heliocentric coordinates!)
>
> -- Bill
>
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