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This is the set-up I’m using for the live stream. It is a Megrez 72 FD refractor on a NEQ6 with an IP camera module which feeds video directly into OBS via a long PoE Ethernet cable and then on to Youtube. It’s the first time I’ve tried this and it was far too easy! Hopefully the weather will play ball on Thursday.
Here is an example file which gives the JD zero date: http://www.nickdjames.com/Transfers/ngc6888_n_solved.fit.gz
Max, Thanks. That works and this looks really powerful, particularly the ability to measure multiple variables in a field and generate automatic reports. My only remaining comment is that I get strange timestamps:
ES UMa, -4713-11-24 12:00:00.000 UTC, G = 10.91 ± 0.11
-4713 is something like JD = 0. The FITS file I’m measuring includes the record:
DATE-OBS= ‘2021-05-25T22:53:18’ / Start time of stacked exposure
Nick.
Hi Max,
I’ve downloaded 0.15 and am running it under Windows 10. It does the PSF photometry but then fails when I try to download catalogue stars:
694 ‘charmap’ codec can’t encode character ‘u03b1’ in position 25: character maps to <undefined>
Any idea what this might be?
Nick.
Maxim,
Just to let you know that I’ve been using the program but haven’t had a chance to look at the SNR details yet. I’ll do that when I get time.
Nick.
This comet is now quite a nice target for small, widefield instruments. I imaged it with a 90mm refractor last night.
There is an old discussion on calculating SNR here. Basically I ended up calculating all of the non-photon sources directly by measuring the RMS value in the sky estimation. To calculate the photon, sqrt(N), noise you need to know the camera gain. I’ve implemented this in an automated aperture photometry tool that I use and it seems reasonable to me.
Thanks. That works very well. I get a pretty good ensemble fit against Gaia G and a magnitude for SN 2021hpr of 14.21. This compares to 14.29 using my aperture photometry tool, presumably affected by the galaxy background. I think the SNR you quote is too low though. I get 168, you have 27. SNR is a difficult thing to calculate correctly. How do you do it?
Maxim – Thanks, I’m almost there. I had forgotten the “Get comparison stars” step! Now I get a fit. The only problem remaining is when I click on the object the flux/magnitude etc are all zero. What am I doing wrong?
One other question – Am I right that the ensemble fit graph is upside down, i.e. the brightest magnitudes are in the lower left corner. Not a problem but I would just like to understand.
Michael – Yes, it seems to work fine without the astrometry.net key although my files are already platesolved. Here’s an example of the V1391 Cas field with the fit using V.
Maxim – Could you add Gaia DR2 G to your list of catalogues? Also, the image contrast stretch doesn’t seem to work very well for me.
Maxim – Thanks that works fine, see attachment. I’ll have a look through your documentation later and will do some experiments on known fields.
I’ve just converted the FITS that I was using from int16 to float32 and it now works. I have an image. I’ll play around a bit more.
Yes, I get the same on Win 10. FITS data but no image. See the attached screenshot. FITS file is attached. Note that it is a gzip compressed fits but I can only attach files with an extension .fits so you may need to change that to fit.gz to get it to work.
I get the same problem trying to install 3.9.4 direct from the Python website into a fresh Win 10 20H2 instance in a VM. Trying to run pip from Powershell gives a “command not recognised” error. Installing from the MS Store worked. The rest of the install then ran smoothly although it did moan about ‘wheel’ not being installed as per the attached screenshot and has various warnings (see screenshot). I’m assuming these are benign. I’ll try out the program now.
Yes, I get 13.8 unfiltered ref Gaia DR2 G tonight. Image here.
CBET 4945 designates this nova as V1405 Cas. My image of it and M52 which is a degree to the north is here.
