[Issues] Problems with Global Astrometry

[John P. McFarland]

Hi Anna and Mario,

It appears that my modifications to LDAC's Python wrapper was the cause of 
the errors.  The configuration file for asctoldac was being written 
incorrectly without any immediate errors.  That problem is now fixed and all 
appears well after running the example commands Mario provided below. 
Please test things on your side to make sure everything is working correctly 
and the results are within the appropriate limits.

Cheers,


-=John


On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, John P. McFarland wrote:

> Hi Mario,
>
> You are very welcome.  Thanks for your input.  It should be all we need to
> sort this out.
>
> We will reply to the list again when we have figured something out regarding
> this issue.
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> -=John
>
>
> On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Mario Radovich wrote:
>
>> Dear John
>>
>> Anna is not here in these days and I can't send you exactly the data and
>> commands that she used. However, I run again astrometry  (always using data
>> from the Sikkema's data set) and I obtained similar results as Anna  for
>> global astrometry.
>>
>> These are the commands that I run:
>>
>> dpu.run("Astrometry" ,
>> instrument='WFI',date='2004-10-04',filter='#844',object='2df_R_1',commit=1)
>> dpu.run("GAstromSL" ,
>> instrument='WFI',date='2004-10-04',filter='#844',object='2df_R_1',commit=1)
>> dpu.run("GAstrom" ,
>> instrument='WFI',date='2004-10-04',filter='#844',object='2df_R_1',commit=1)
>>
>> Many thanks for your help !
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>>  Mario
>>
>> John P. McFarland wrote:
>>> Dear Anna,
>>>
>>> We are attempting to figure out what is going on, but we cannot access the
>>> reduced data shown in the logs.  It is probably just in your private
>>> context.  Could you provide the particulars of the data you are using and a
>>> description of the procedures you are using (e.g., query parameters and
>>> command lines).
>>>
>>> My initial impression is that the problem may be data dependent (cf., the
>>> "too few reference/overlapping stars" warnings from the logs).  Once we see
>>> what data you are using and how you are using it, we should be able to
>>> figure out what is happening.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>>
>>> -=John
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, John P. McFarland wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Dear Anna,
>>>>
>>>> This is indeed a strange problem.  We are looking into it and will reply
>>>> again once we have more information.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -=John
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, 29 Jun 2007, anna romano wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> here in Naples we have problems with Global Astrometry.
>>>>> For example when we tried to process the Sikkema data, the CCD50 does not
>>>>> appear in the final mosaic and the astrometry is wrong in the other CCDs.
>>>>> As an example these are the Astrometric Parameters produced before and
>>>>> after
>>>>> Global Astrometry for some exposures/CCDs:
>>>>>
>>>>> After AstrometricParametersTask:
>>>>>
>>>>> Exposure  filter      chip       instr         CD1_1
>>>>> CD1_2
>>>>> CD2_1               CD2_2            1         #878       ccd50     WFI
>>>>> -6.620125e-05     3.788299e-07      2.344569e-07      6.592619e-05
>>>>>   2         #878     ccd50     WFI     -6.628069e-05       1.63594e-07
>>>>> 2.694998e-07      6.602958e-05
>>>>>   1         #878     ccd51    WFI     -6.593424e-05     -7.156799e-08
>>>>> -3.319406e-07      6.602225e-05      2         #878     ccd51    WFI
>>>>> -6.628551e-05      3.087525e-08     6.657912e-08       6.593517e-05
>>>>> After GAstromTask:
>>>>>
>>>>> Exposure  filter      chip       instr         CD1_1
>>>>> CD1_2
>>>>> CD2_1               CD2_2            1         #878    ccd50    WFI
>>>>> 0.001523728     -0.00641293      0.002444735    -0.01029184      2
>>>>> #878    ccd50    WFI     0.001523728     -0.006415796    0.002443643
>>>>> -0.01029184      1         #878    ccd51    WFI    -6.596957e-05     0
>>>>> 0                        6.598252e-05      2         #878    ccd51    WFI
>>>>> -6.596956e-05     0                      0
>>>>> 6.598253e-05
>>>>>
>>>>> Similar results are systematically produced for other fields: as you see,
>>>>> the
>>>>> astrometric parameters are good before gastrom, and completely wrong
>>>>> afterwards.
>>>>> Do you know what could be the reason and do you have any advice?
>>>>> We also give in attachment an excerpt of the log produced by GAstrom: it
>>>>> seems that for some reason it does not find reference/overlapping
>>>>> sources.
>>>>> Of course, please tell us if we can send you anything else which may be
>>>>> useful.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks a lot in advance.
>>>>>
>>>>>    Anna Romano
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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