--- In guide-user@yahoogroups.com, "duble.stars" <duble.stars@...> wrote:

> 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.

famous last words... ...should've thought to test it first.

This'll work

http://galex.stsci.edu/GSC2/GSC2DataReturn.aspx?RAH=16&RAM=21&RAS=43&DSN=-&DD=60&DM=27&DS=00&EQ=2000&SIZE=10&SRCH=Radius&FORMAT=Plain%20Text&CAT=GSC23&HSTID=&GSC1ID=

and gives a field near this here new variable in Triangulum Australe
mentioned on some alerts recently, and definitely works coz I've
tested it in Guide, giving Fmag 15.6 +/- 0.4 (red mag) on 1997.320 ...
remember that errors in files like these are the catalogue's own
estimates, the real error on the magnitdue could still be higher than
+/- 0.4.

Ah, I've just realised what the error was with the original url I
used, it was the %%20 bit, should've been %20, but I had it as %%20 to
run it from Guide help. This works :-

http://galex.stsci.edu/GSC2/GSC2DataReturn.aspx?RAH=01&RAM=23&RAS=45&DSN=+&DD=78&DM=09&DS=10&EQ=2000&SIZE=10&SRCH=Radius&FORMAT=Plain%20Text&CAT=GSC23&HSTID=&GSC1ID=

as with all urls, this should be just one line, should wordwrap interfere.

Cheers

John