and this is for the GCS 2.3.2

here's the input form

http://galex.stsci.edu/GSC2/GSC2WebForm.aspx

just enter the ra, dec and arcminute radius required.

you MUST however also ensure that the format is changed from default
HTML to "plain text" by clicking on that pull down.

Then when the data is returned into the browser ensure it is saved as
text, not as html.

Then append it to a file kept in the Guide 8 directory called
GSC23.dat, just keep adding new stuff to gsc23.dat using a text editor
and File Insert or Insert File, or however, cut and paste maybes...

And here's the TDF, which'll plot 'em as stars for fields of one
degree size and less. Cut and paste that into a text editor and save
it as GSC23.tdf in the Guide 8 directory.

Fmag is red plate mag, nearish Johnson R and slightly less nearish Rc
(Cousins R), Jmag is blue plate mag, nearish Johnson B, and Nmag is
near infrared plate mag, kind of nearish Ic (Cousins I) mag, but these
are photographic plate mags that are not much better than GSC or USNO
A mags, so in no way photometric, they just give you an idea is all.
GSC2.3 is from digitizing POSS/SERC/AAO plates, etc, similar to what
USNO B1.0 is.

For those who know about HTTP GET and want to not use the form but
link in via scripts or similar, the url template is :-

http://galex.stsci.edu/GSC2/GSC2DataReturn.aspx?RAH=01&RAM=23&RAS=45.6&DSN=+&DD=78&DM=09&DS=10&EQ=2000&SIZE=10&SRCH=Radius&FORMAT=Plain%%20Text&CAT=GSC23&HSTID=&GSC1ID=

which is set up for 01h23m45.6s+78d09'10s and search radius 10 arcmin.

This'll also give folk a test set of data to check the TDF with.

Cheers

John

------------tdf starts next line---------------
file GSC23.DAT
title GSC2.3.2
RA H 25 2
RA M 28 2
RA S 31 5
de d 37 3
de m 41 2
de s 44 4
mag 71 4
~b 1 10 HSTGSID %s\n\n
~b 13 <>'_' GSC %[13,10]\n\n
~c190 0 0 star\n
~c190 0 1 galaxy\n
~c190 0 2 blend\n
~c190 0 3 nonstar\n
~c190 0 4 unclassified\n
~c190 0 5 defect\n
~r 25 11 RA 2000 %R
~r 49 4 err %s arcsecs\n
~r 37 11 Dec2000 %D
~r 54 4 err %s arcsecs\n\n
~r 60 11 Epoch %s\n\n
~b 71 4 Fmag : %s
~r 81 3 +/- %s
~b 86 4 \nJmag : %s
~r 96 3 +/- %s
~b101 4 \nNmag : %s
~r111 3 +/- %s
~b 1 1 \n

epoch 2000
type 6
field 0.00 10.00
mag lim 44
shown 7
end
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