Robin,
Maybe these hints will give you some insight.
I'm sure you're setting the CdC directory pointer to the
right directory: it should be: /usr/share/skychart/cat/gsc/.
Underneath this directory are the further directories like N0000,
N0730, etc., and under each of them are the *.gsc files. You already
have it structured this way, I believe.
Which GST catalog did you choose on the Stars 2 tab? It's
probably not the first choice, "HST GSC original FITS," since this
version of the catalog is hard to come by these days, and it is not
easy and requires work to reconstruct out of the CDS-Strasbourg
archives. CDS does not archive the original FITS formatted GSC.
I don't know what the third CdC choice is looking for. I've
never worried about that one.
The second option, "HST GSC compact" is the choice I make,
and it operates with the compact-binary form of the GSC that is
available from CDS-Strasbourg.
I would note that you can get the HST GSC through several
different links on CDS. If you download from <ftp://cdsarc.u-
strasbg.fr/pub/cats/I/254/GSC/>, then you get the compact-binary
form of GSC 1.2 that CdC is supposed to work with. The first file,
0001.gsc, is 31,404 bytes (mine is dated May 24, 1999).
I know absolutely nothing about Linux. Does CdC work on a
linux machine?
Good luck,
Dick
--- In [email protected], "robinriordan"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I rarely post here because it is a pain. Here it is, yet another
gsc
> comment-question. I use a program called gcx for stellar photometry
> that works just fine with my gsc files. After reading all the
posts I
> decided to get CdC to do the same. I downloaded the files from
> Strasburg. No Luck. I tried my files from Imaging the Universe. No
> luck. I got a copy from a friend in Ohio. No luck. This should not
be
> rocket science. I run Linux 9. No need for zip, winzip. As it
stands
> my files are in the form:
>
> /usr/share/skychart/cat/gsc/N0000/0001.gsc
> /usr/share/skychart/cat/gsc/N0000/0002.gsc
> etc
> /usr/share/skychart/cat/gsc/N0730/0594.gsc
> /usr/share/skychart/cat/gsc/N0730/0595.gsc
> etc
> and the list goes on.
>
> I saw a post about capital letters. Does this mean that N should
be n
> or gsc be GSC?
>
> I know I can't be the only one out here on the funny Linux box who
is
> frustrated. File life is generally easy on Linux.
>
> I know the file structures are sound since gcx reads them. So,
what is
> CdC looking for?
>
> Robin
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