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

[Pamela L. Gay]

Hi Jim,

Sextractor and IRAF can both do this.

Cheers,
Pamela

Dr. Pamela L. Gay
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
pgay at siue.edu / http://www.siue.edu/~pgay
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On Aug 8, 2007, at 9:11 AM, Jim Roe wrote:

>
>
> 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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