[Aavso-photometry] RE: DSI Pro]

[Michael Newberry]

Bruce,

Would you mind Emailing me one of the offending images to look at? I *might*
be able to quickly put together a Mira file import plugin that would
translate the bad keywords (when you save the image, the fixed keywordds
save with it). Not a promise, because I don't know what is invovled
yet---but I wouldn't mind checking it out.

Michael Newberry


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bruce Skelly" <bruce at skelly.com>
To: <aavso-photometry at mira.aavso.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2005 8:50 AM
Subject: Re: [Aavso-photometry] RE: DSI Pro]


> Hi Justin,
>
> I reported this to Meade.  I sent them the output of the FITS verifier, 
> along with the relevant
> pages of the standard.  My contact said that he forwarded it onto 
> engineering.  I don't think that
> it would hurt if additional people were to report it.  I wish I had a 
> trouble ticket number that I
> could refer you to, but I don't.
>
> If you ever do have problems with a FITS file, the FITS Verifier is a 
> quick way to verify that
> your file complies with the standard.  It is at ( 
> http://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/fits_verify.html )
>
> Yours,
>
> Bruce
> --- Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>
>> > Dear Mr.Fabrizio,
>> > This is Nagai.
>> >
>> > I think, the DSI Pro is the good equipment.
>> > And, the AutoStar makes the FITS file.
>> > But, Photographing time is not included in the FITS file.
>> It is there, but not written properly..
>>
>> I'm looking at a file from Freddy of Netherlands, soul on IRC,
>> from some months back.  It has:
>>
>>   INSTRUME= 'Deep Sky Imager'    / Imager Model
>>   TIME-OBS= '20:31:03'           / UTC Time
>>   DATE-OBS= '01/10/2005'         / UTC Date
>>   EXPTIME =                  16. / Total Exposure Time
>>
>> I suspect that the reason some software might not know the date of
>> exposure is because the new and recommended format for date of
>> observation is in the style: 2005-12-30T23:59:58.
>>
>> The exposure time is typically in seconds
>>
>> The D/M/Y format is not allowed by the FITS standard [0] for files
>> written after January 1, 2000.  Also, I note that the DSI software is
>> using a 4 digit year where a 2 digit year is expected.
>>
>> Justin
>>
>> References
>>
>> [0] 
>> http://archive.stsci.edu/fits/fits_standard/node40.html#SECTION00942000000000000000
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