mscgetcat is not working anymore
johannes1808 wrote on Aug 14, 2010
Hi,
there are a lot of problems in last day. The most curious one is the task mscgetcat, so it was working quite well with my mosiac images, but now the coordinate file is always empty. I tried NOAO:USNO-A2 and CADC:USNO-A2 quite many many often, but no result. Here are the parameters for mscgetcat:
Image Reduction and Analysis Facility
PACKAGE = mscred
TASK = mscgetcatalog
input = obj179 List of Mosaic files
output = test_out Output file of sources
(magmin = 14.) Minimum magnitude
(magmax = 19.) Maximum magnitude
(catalog= NOAO:USNO-A2) Catalog
(rmin = 15.) Minimum radius (arcmin)
(mode = ql)
Any ideas?
P.S. With the ESO tool Skycat I can get coordinates successfully
Thanks
there are a lot of problems in last day. The most curious one is the task mscgetcat, so it was working quite well with my mosiac images, but now the coordinate file is always empty. I tried NOAO:USNO-A2 and CADC:USNO-A2 quite many many often, but no result. Here are the parameters for mscgetcat:
Image Reduction and Analysis Facility
PACKAGE = mscred
TASK = mscgetcatalog
input = obj179 List of Mosaic files
output = test_out Output file of sources
(magmin = 14.) Minimum magnitude
(magmax = 19.) Maximum magnitude
(catalog= NOAO:USNO-A2) Catalog
(rmin = 15.) Minimum radius (arcmin)
(mode = ql)
Any ideas?
P.S. With the ESO tool Skycat I can get coordinates successfully
Thanks
estayton wrote on Aug 14, 2010
Hi,
I am experiencing the exact same problem, and it started last Thursday, August 12, in the afternoon as I remember. I have no idea what is going on, and I've consulted with several other people and they haven't been able to fix it either.
I have also tried it on images that have worked successfully before, and the newly-created catalogues are still empty.
If someone does know, I'd greatly appreciate some help here.
Thanks,
Erik
I am experiencing the exact same problem, and it started last Thursday, August 12, in the afternoon as I remember. I have no idea what is going on, and I've consulted with several other people and they haven't been able to fix it either.
I have also tried it on images that have worked successfully before, and the newly-created catalogues are still empty.
If someone does know, I'd greatly appreciate some help here.
Thanks,
Erik
noooooooooo wrote on Aug 14, 2010
You really don't want to be using USNO-A2.0 anymore anyway.... ;)
1) Find out what catalogs your IRAF already knows about by starting IRAF,
getting in mscred and then typing:
aclist * verbose-
2) Pick one of them. Might I suggest usnob1@noao (Of course, I am just
kind of hoping mscgetcatalog gets sufficient epoch information that
proper motions can be applied or that at the very least high proper motion
stars are removed from the query)....
3) epar mscgetcatalog
4) change catalog to your selection (e.g. usnob1@noao)
5) Use mscgetcatalog. That was enough to get it working for me.
Jeff Larsen
1) Find out what catalogs your IRAF already knows about by starting IRAF,
getting in mscred and then typing:
aclist * verbose-
2) Pick one of them. Might I suggest usnob1@noao (Of course, I am just
kind of hoping mscgetcatalog gets sufficient epoch information that
proper motions can be applied or that at the very least high proper motion
stars are removed from the query)....
3) epar mscgetcatalog
4) change catalog to your selection (e.g. usnob1@noao)
5) Use mscgetcatalog. That was enough to get it working for me.
Jeff Larsen
Mike Fitzpatrick wrote on Aug 14, 2010
The USNO-A2 catalog was on a server that was bounced last week and apparently a disk didn't mount, we're fixing it now. The USNO-B1 service is on a different machine and should be working.
pakzad wrote on Aug 14, 2010
Hi,
When trying to access "NOAO:USNO-B1" while calling 'mscgetcatalog' from within 'msccmatch', I get the following error:
ERROR: Catalog not found (NOAO:USNO-B1)
"radecsys="FK5", equinox=2000.)"
line 22: mscsrc$mscgetcatalog.cl
called as: `mscgetcatalog (input=obj109pfs.fits, output=tmp681e)'
called as: `msccmatch ()'
I have no problem accessing "NOAO:USNO-A2", but I'd like to try using other catalogs. Typing "aclist * verbose-" shows several catalogs, including "usnob1@noao".
Can you help me figure out what is wrong?
Thanks,
Sabrina Pakzad
When trying to access "NOAO:USNO-B1" while calling 'mscgetcatalog' from within 'msccmatch', I get the following error:
ERROR: Catalog not found (NOAO:USNO-B1)
"radecsys="FK5", equinox=2000.)"
line 22: mscsrc$mscgetcatalog.cl
called as: `mscgetcatalog (input=obj109pfs.fits, output=tmp681e)'
called as: `msccmatch ()'
I have no problem accessing "NOAO:USNO-A2", but I'd like to try using other catalogs. Typing "aclist * verbose-" shows several catalogs, including "usnob1@noao".
Can you help me figure out what is wrong?
Thanks,
Sabrina Pakzad
johannes1808 wrote on Aug 14, 2010
Hi Sabrina,
it was figured out in the previous posts and I can also confirm that the USNO-B1
catalog is much better than the previous ones. I have used it right now and it is working, did you set the parameter to catalog=usnob1@noao ? This is how it works for me. If you could post your full set of parameters it would be much easier to help you.
Johannes
it was figured out in the previous posts and I can also confirm that the USNO-B1
catalog is much better than the previous ones. I have used it right now and it is working, did you set the parameter to catalog=usnob1@noao ? This is how it works for me. If you could post your full set of parameters it would be much easier to help you.
Johannes
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