Thanks John, works a treat,
Roger

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From: "ucac3temp" <ucac3temp@...>
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Sent: Saturday, August 29, 2009 6:02 PM
Subject: [guide-user] UCAC3 from VizieR in Guide 8 - a howto


>
> Alrighty then, here's a temporary ucac3 from vizier for Guide 8
> thingy until Bill has chance to do a grown up and more sophisticated
> one, because it is quite a busy dataset, with lots of flags and all
> that.
>
> This will give you positions, errors on positions, proper of the
> motions, errors thereupon, and ucac3 "model fit" ucac3 mags as well
> as 2mass J and Ks mags and errors thereon, and maybe something else,
> I forget already.
>
> I haven't bothered with any flags, ones such as those for doubles
> will only crop up rarely, and I'm fairly sure most of the astrometry
> software ignores various flags, especially the photometric ones, so
> why shouldn't a charting proggie? Also no final paper has been
> published yet so exactly what some flags represent and which one's
> concern the average chart maker or scope pointer is summat else
> altogether, even if there is a readme explaining some points, that's
> not the same as a full description as will appear in the eventual
> published journal paper.
>
> There's no use in the tdf I've writ for this one of the Guide proper
> motion corrections to epoch of date, ie I haven't used those command
> words to add proper motion to get epoch corrections coz it's often
> "problematic". Positions are thus epoch and equinox 2000 and proper
> motion is quoted in more info and help pop up.
>
> Guide should not be running when you do the following. Backup any
> file to be edited, just make a copy of if unsure.
>
> First, you need to get hold of download.txt. Make a back up of the
> original. It's in the Guide directory.
>
> Place it in a text editor. There are already a number of catalogues
> listed, and the last one is followed by a line simply saying
>
> end
>
> insert before this last line the following, via cut and paste or
> type it
>
> 2803 -cI/315/out&-out.all=1 ucac3.dat
>
> If you already have an entry/line starting 2803, use a number after
> whatever number you've already got.
>
> Remember that new number of yours though, you'll need it in
> toolbar.dat.
>
> Now, backup toolbar.dat. Load toolbar.dat into a text editor.
> Again, it's in the Guide directory.
>
> Increment the number at top of toolbar.dat by 1. ie if it's 3000
> make it say 3001, just by simple text editing.
>
> Add/insert somewhere, probably near where you see a line like
> !usno.bmp, the following new line
>
> 2803 !ucac3.bmp UCAC3 data from VizieR
>
> there are 3 spaces at the start of that line, make it line up with
> the other nonhashed lines in toolbar.dat if confused.
>
> Again, if you used a number other than 2803 in download.txt you use
> that number instead of 2803 here in toolbar.dat.
>
> Save that in the Guide directory.
>
> You ain't got a button for the toolbar, I hear you cry.
>
> Okay then, I'll upload ucac3.bmp to the yahoo webpages FILES
> account, download it from there. Alternatively just find any small
> bmp in you Guide directory, copy it, rename it to ucac3.bmp, put it
> any old paint package, even a basic one like the one that comes with
> the OS, zoom in a lot and pixel edit it to look however you want,
> and save it as ucac3.bmp to your Guide directory.
>
> And that's it. You run Guide, you press the button, the ucac3 data
> downloads from VizieR (I'm using Strasbourg server, dunno if it's
> gone worldwide re servers as yet).
>
> Except, that isn't it, coz you can't see anything.
>
> So, here is the tdf to display it.
>
> Cut and paste the below text into a text editor, save it to Guide
> directory as a file called ucac3.tdf, and you'll get help and more
> info. It should be on via default.
>
> Stars are coloured via 2mass bumf, and drawn to the ucac3 model fit
> magnitude (I ain't bothered quoting the ucac3 aperture fit
> magnitude, yep, two for the price of one you get nowadays, or bogof
> as they call it here).
>
> I'll shove a copy of that in files too.
>
> You lucky people...
>
> As I say, you'll no doubt get a more grown up version later, and
> those who wish to get a dvd will probably in time be able to use
> that, hopefully even when copied to hard drive, but these are only
> just shipping out, and will be slowly generated, I believe, so it
> may be a long while afore Guide can meaningfully support said.
>
> Cheers
>
> John
>
> John Greaves
>
>
> ---------cut and paste from next line--------
> file ucac3.dat
> title UCAC3
> RA H 12 9
> units0 -2
> de d 29 9
> text 1 9
> mag 70 6
> photo J:163,5 H:180,5 K:197,5
> ~b 1 9 3UCAC %s\n\n
> ~r 12 9 RA 2000 %5R +/- %[24,3] mas\n
> ~r 29 9 Dec2000 %5D +/- %[41,3] mas\n\n
> ~r 29 0 RA %[12,9] deg Dec +%[30,8] deg\n\n
> ~r 29 0 - RA %[12,9] deg Dec %[29,9] deg\n\n
> ~r 52 8 RA mean epoch: %s\n
> ~r 61 8 Dec mean epoch: %s\n
> ~r100 2 %s used observations\n\n
> ~b117 8 muRA : %s +/- %[129,4] mas/y\n
> ~b134 8 muDec : %s +/- %[145,4] mas/y\n
> ~r113 2 \nfrom %s catalogues\n
> ~b 70 6 \nR_u3 : %s +/- %[86,5]\n
> ~b163 6 J : %s +/- %[171,4]\n
> ~b197 6 Ks : %s +/- %[205,4]\n
>
> epoch 2000
> type 6
> goto spaces # Ignore extra spaces in 'go to'
> goto case # Ignore upper vs. lower case in 'go to'
> label spaces # Remove extra spaces in the labels
> field 0.00 15.00
> mag lim 10
> shown 7
> end
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