Hi. Many of us have bemoaned the loss of access to VizieR resources due to code changes somewhere that affect links to the online resource. Loss of access to USNO-B1.0 for northern declinations is a particular regret.
Well, someone shoot me down if I'm wrong, but the following code change to the file extres.ini in the Ciel folder appears to restore access to VizieR resources, including USNO-B1.0. In the file extres.ini, sections of code referring to the various CDS Vizier resources look something like this one for USNO-B1.0: ***************************************** ; CDS VizieR USNO-B ; alternate VizieR server : ; http://adc.gsfc.nasa.gov/viz-bin/VizieR ; http://z13.mtk.nao.ac.jp/viz-bin/VizieR [VizieR_USNO-B] url=http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/VizieR?-c=$$$$&-c.geom=r&- c.r=$&-c.eq=J2000&-c.u=arcmin&-oc.form=dec&-sort=_r&-out.form=ascii&- out.max=5000&-source=I/284/out&-out=USNO-B1.0&-out=RAJ2000&- out=DEJ2000&-out=R1mag&-out=B1mag&-out=Epoch info=http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/ ******************************************** Note the line starting: url=http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin ........ (or url=http://vizier.cfa.harvard.edu/viz-bin ....., if you already tried this change to the alternate server) CHANGE this line to begin as follows: url=http://webviz.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin ...... I have applied this change to each section of code in extres.ini that refers to a VizieR rsource in extes.ini, and the function appears to be restored! I'm no software expert, so those who are please check this out to confirm it's OK. Adrian
