Hi, I'm not perfect at writing TDFs, but I manage somehow. In 2011 I successfully recreated the Andrews (1981) catalogue of 16398 stars in the Orion Nebula region, as a DAT file. By adding a TDF it displays sweetly on Guide8/9. No problems at all. The files are available by going to
http://www.variablestarssouth.org/information-and-resources/catalogues-a-databases and scroll down to "Andrews-Morel Photometric Catalogue Around M42", a downloadable ZIP file.
My current project is a catalogue of 5063 stars in 95 LMC OB associations. Naturally I've written a TDF for it, which is recognizable by GUIDE8/9. The "Title" appears in the list of "User Datasets"; GUIDE responds faithfully in the "GoTo TDF" mode, and goes to the correct sky position when a star designation is typed in. The problem is that GUIDE fails to draw a fresh chart (some stars in my dataset are not in UCAC3), nor does it provide any info. boxes for my stars.
A copy of my TDF is attached below, together with a (TXT) fragment of my dataset. I hope this is sufficient. Sorry, but the dataset is slightly out of shape after copy-and-paste.
Any ideas as to why GUIDE is suppressing my data?
Regards,
Mati Morel
Variable Stars South
mmorel7@...
[lh_stars.tdf]
file lh_stars.txt #start of TDF file
title Lucke-Hodge LMC OB Associations
RA H 8 2
RA M 11 2
RA S 14 5
de d 20 3
de m 24 2
de s 27 4
mag 34 6
text 1 7
~c 1 7 LH %s\n
~r 8 11 \nRA[J2000] %R\n #complete RA
~r 20 11 Dec[J2000] %D\n\n #complete Dec
~r 32 0 A Position from USNO-A.20\n\n
~r 32 0 B Position from USNO-B1.0\n\n
~r 32 0 M Position from 2MASS\n\n
~r 32 0 S Position from SPM4 \n\n
~r 32 0 T Position from Tycho-2 \n\n
~r 32 0 U Position from UCAC3 \n\n
~b 34 6 V: %s +/-[41,5]\n
~b 48 5 B-V:%s +/-[54,5]\n
~r 60 0 1 Highest precision (APASS data, 3 decimals)\n
~r 60 0 2 Lower precision (CDS II/236, 2 decimals with errors)\n
~r 60 0 3 B & V (pe) from literature (2 decimals, no errors)\n
~r 60 0 4 Photographic B,V, usually from Lucke 1972 (2 decimals, no errors)\n
~r 60 0 5 Approximate V only, 1 decimal place \n
~r 62 16 Spectral type %s\n
~r 79 7 Sanduleak No.: %s\n
~r 88 7 HD No.: %s\n
~r 95 50 Comment: %s\n
pref LH
epoch 2000
sort 1
type 6
type sC00b000;e0,0,18; # small green circle
label spaces
goto spaces
field 0.00 50.00
mag lim 165
shown 2
declimit -65 -73
ralimit 4.0 6.5
end
[lh_stars.txt]
002:1 4 52 27.63 -69 21 42.0 S 13.970 0.020 -0.130 0.020 2 [L72]
002:2 4 52 29.75 -69 21 34.9 S 14.960 0.040 0.750 0.060 2 [L72]
002:3 4 52 22.27 -69 21 36.5 S 15.360 0.060 0.040 0.070 2 [L72]
002:4 4 52 24.00 -69 21 20.3 S 15.450 0.070 0.480 0.110 2 [L72]
002:5 4 52 23.98 -69 20 44.9 S 15.400 -0.250 4 [L72]
002:6 4 52 27.52 -69 20 4.7 S 15.180 0.040 -0.090 0.040 2 [L72]
002:7 4 52 23.89 -69 19 59.1 S 12.460 0.010 0.680 0.010 2 [L72]
002:8 4 52 20.89 -69 20 13.4 S 14.810 0.030 -0.200 0.030 2 [L72]
002:9 4 52 21.27 -69 20 29.6 S 13.710 0.010 -0.130 0.010 2 O7 V [L72]
002:10 4 52 19.98 -69 20 32.8 S 14.800 5 [L72]
002:11 4 52 12.46 -69 19 59.8 S 14.230 0.030 -0.140 0.030 2 [L72]
002:12 4 52 11.80 -69 20 25.4 S 14.430 0.030 -0.180 0.030 2 O9.5 V [L72]
002:13 4 52 9.25 -69 21 0.7 S 15.710 0.060 0.500 0.070 2 [L72]
002:14 4 52 9.05 -69 20 36.0 S 13.410 0.010 -0.150 0.010 2 O7 II: L72]
002:15 4 52 6.98 -69 20 33.0 S 14.250 0.030 -0.050 0.030 2 [L72]
002:16 4 52 5.75 -69 20 27.1 S 14.570 0.040 -0.120 0.050 2 [L72]
002:17 4 52 9.22 -69 19 59.5 S 15.850 -0.140 4 [L72]
002:18 4 52 10.04 -69 20 4.7 S 15.860 -0.070 4 [L72]
002:19 4 52 5.25 -69 19 59.9 S 14.940 0.030 -0.180 0.030 2 [L72]
002:20 4 52 2.34 -69 20 33.4 S 14.400 0.040 -0.070 0.040 2 O7.5 V [L72]
002:21 4 52 0.61 -69 20 50.0 S 15.110 0.050 0.050 0.060 2 O6 V [L72]
002:22 4 51 54.79 -69 20 30.1 S 15.820 0.060 1.360 0.110 2 [L72]
002:23 4 51 59.98 -69 20 15.0 S 15.490 0.060 0.020 0.060 2 [L72]
002:24 4 52 34.34 -69 19 32.7 S 15.580 0.040 0.070 0.040 2 [L72]
002:25 4 52 24.14 -69 24 14.0 T 8.454 0.020 0.223 0.017 1 A3 V 31722 [L72]
002:26 4 52 44.22 -69 20 57.2 U 12.800 0.010 -0.080 0.010 2 B0.5 I -69 20 [L72]
002:29 4 52 18.17 -69 20 11.9 S 12.890 0.010 -0.140 0.010 2 O8 II ((f)) [L72]
003:1 4 52 36.48 -67 16 26.4 U 14.300 0.030 -0.150 0.030 2 [L72]
003:2 4 52 35.97 -67 16 33.2 U 14.280 0.030 -0.130 0.030 2 [L72]
003:3 4 52 32.74 -67 16 52.8 U 14.790 0.040 -0.150 0.040 2 [L72]
003:4 4 52 31.40 -67 17 4.9 U 13.830 0.020 -0.140 0.020 2 [L72]
003:5 4 52 36.73 -67 17 30.2 U 13.867 0.043 -0.185 0.044 1 [L72]
003:6 4 52 56.41 -67 15 50.6 U 14.842 0.046 -0.214 0.056 1 [L72]
003:7 4 53 8.06 -67 16 12.5 U 13.644 0.031 0.438 0.033 1 [L72]
003:8 4 53 5.34 -67 16 57.5 U 13.798 0.039 1.795 0.049 1 [L72]
003:9 4 53 15.32 -67 17 24.3 U 14.108 0.000 1.721 0.000 1 [L72]
003:10 4 53 18.51 -67 17 41.5 U 15.679 0.104 0.011 0.224 1 [L72]
003:11 4 53 17.70 -67 17 55.4 U 13.963 0.037 -0.037 0.053 1 [L72]
003:12 4 52 52.34 -67 17 30.9 U 12.934 0.008 0.674 0.016 1 [L72]
003:13 4 52 36.40 -67 18 9.4 U 15.660 0.250 4 [L72]
003:14 4 53 0.45 -67 17 59.3 U 15.122 0.059 0.043 0.061 1 [L72]
003:15 4 53 3.97 -67 18 25.5 U 15.378 0.042 0.091 0.051 1 [L72]
003:16 4 53 5.19 -67 19 51.2 U 12.522 0.034 0.632 0.035 1 [L72]
003:17 4 52 56.20 -67 20 24.9 U 14.910 0.040 0.870 0.040 2 [L72]
003:18 4 52 53.69 -67 20 32.9 U 15.370 0.050 0.320 0.050 2 [L72]
003:19 4 52 52.40 -67 20 52.2 U 13.207 0.018 0.508 0.020 1