[Aavso-photometry] Aavso-photometry Digest, Vol 45, Issue 6

[Neil Butterworth]

Have a look at AstroArt.
It does a great job of what you want.

Neil  (BIW)



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Roe" <jroe at jamesroe.com>
To: "Aavso-Photometry" <aavso-photometry at mira.aavso.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 12:11 AM
Subject: Re: [Aavso-photometry] Aavso-photometry Digest, Vol 45, Issue 6


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>
> bailyhill at aol.com wrote:
>> Could you mention some of the windows programs that you have used
>> successfully?? How about Mira, Maxim, Tfocus, Allos, Temma2, Canopus,
>> AP4WIN?? I think these are some of the ones that AAVSOers would be
>> using.?
>>
>
> While you (or someone else?) is at it, would you tell me which, if any,
> program is capable of listing every detectable star in an image with its
> RA, Dec, instrumental magnitude, (plus all the other goodies in the
> header such as date, time, filter, exposure, etc).
>
> The closest I've come is AIP4Win that will list most of these but only
> against PixelX and PixelY coordinates - unless you use their primitive,
> human input required, plate solution.  (CF, Pinpoint or Charon which are
> automatic and nearly instantaneous.)  I suppose I could use the plate
> solutions by either Charon or Pinpoint LE (in Maxim) to transform the
> Pixel coordinates, but that seems clumsy.
>
> Charon does a nice job but requires one to pick off the stars in the
> image individually.  The good news is, I've asked Bill Gray to see if he
> would fix this and he said he would look at it - keep your fingers 
> crossed.
>
> It looks to me that Maxim is only good for time series (in the
> photometry front, that is - I like it a lot for other functions).  Am I
> missing something?
>
> BTW, I've been able to run WinXP in a virtual machine from a Linux host
> using VMware Player.  V.2 supports USB 2.0 and the only big problem I've
> encountered is using the host serial port - but that is easily fixed by
> using USB-Serial adapters ($10 each).
>
> Jim Roe
> Wentzville, Missouri
>
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