Dear Herbert, Dear All, I’ve been working now for the past week with the Beta version of Astrometrica 4.12.0.448 with the ADES file. In the past I used to open the images that I want to measure, I did

Dear Herbert, As i started again observing comets, i already calculated some images from last week. When sending them to MPC, I noticed that it was still the old MPC format version and I do remember t

Dear, Thank you. In Prims I open the masterdark ( 32 bit ), I go to “File –> Overwrite Header data from a batch of images” I go to Pixels Data , and then X Enable to change pixel data type from all im

Dear All, After 2 years of inactivity and building a new observatory it is time to observe again. As I wanted a standalone software to do completely everything from having a comet sky chart, to contro

Hello Herbert and to all, I have a problem with downloading the MPCorb and COMET files, for some time i get this error: "HTTP ACCESS FILED: IOHANDLER VALUE IS NOT VALID". It's quite annoying how can I

Hi all, Has anyone had experience using the PIERSIDE keyword in conjunction with Astrometrica? I understand that it has been supported since 2013, but I'm afraid I don't understand how it's supposed t

For your information: I have started the migration process from Yahoo groups to groups.io. I received the information that it will take "up to a week" to process the transfer request. Other then Yahoo

Seems like Yahoo will be shutting down very soon. Are there any migration plans for these groups? I would recommend GROUPS.IO. I think they have tools that will allow you to migrat everything from Yah

I am using 4.12.0.448 How does one enter the "permanent interstellar designation for an interstellar"(i.e. 2I/Borisov) I am assuming I need to use the "permanent interstellar designation" 2I[going in

Hi, after opening the Astrometrica it said " List index out of bounds (0) and I cannot work with it ... I use in my PC Windows 7. I wonder what changed lately which caused this problem. How to solve t

The MPC report data is defined by column number due to historical limits of punch card input. Although it may be hard for you to read, it is the only way that MPC computers can read the data. If you w

Hello Everyone, I am trying to set the time in the MPC report to 6 digits after the decimal point. I tried changing the settings/ccd/precision to 0.10 from 1.0 but when I did that the time in the MPC

1 Try using a local copy of the stellar database rather than trying to go on-line and going to one of the VizieR servers. I think I get this message when the servers are down. I keep a local copy of U

What I'm doing: 1. Loading an image 2. Running "Astrometric Data Reduction" 3. Confirming RA, DEC 4. Program is "Extracting Objects" 5. Then it's connecting (to VizieR I suppose), downloading app. 11k

Hello friends, I have used Astrometrica in WP and Windows 7. I have now installed it in Windows 10 but it does not open. Any advice ? Thank you !!! Mario

1) A problem with my mail program (Microsoft Outlook, running under Windows 7 Pro) causes the paragraph marker to be overlooked so that the lines of the report beginning with COM, MEA, TEL, and ACK al

Hi, I've just put a SBIG STL11000M (full 35mm chip) on a 41cm f4.5 Meade Starfinder Newtonian. I'm using a Paracorr coma corrector (x1.15) due to the coma at the native f4.5. The coma corrector makes

Hello Everyone, I uploaded 3 images of 1197 Rhodesia and the data reduction is not working on them. I checked the MPC 1-line element and that is correct. When I blink the images. the red markings don'

For the last 24 hours Astrometrica's downloading of GAIA data for a particular sky object dies before completion. It downloads only 10kb, appears to stop downloading, and then times out. A speed test

Herbert, When I try to download the MPCOrb file, I have a file MPCOrb.dat created in the destination directory I have set, but that file is 0 kb Luc (sorry for my last email, sent from my webmail)