Hi Robin,
I'm glad to see that we have aready 3.3 beta versions.
I made al little check (https://fits.gsfc.nasa.gov/fits_verify.html) of the QHY174GPS (FW upgraded) FITS header. It gave out 8 errors:
*** Error: Keyword #7: Name "GPS_Lat" contains char "a" which is not upper
case letter, digit, "-", or "_".
*** Error: Keyword #8: Name "GPS_Long" contains char "o" which is not upper
case letter, digit, "-", or "_".
*** Error: Keyword #9: Name "GPS_SFlg" contains char "l" which is not upper
case letter, digit, "-", or "_".
*** Error: Keyword #12: Name "GPS_EFlg" contains char "l" which is not upper
case letter, digit, "-", or "_".
*** Error: Keyword #15: Name "GPS_NFlg" contains char "l" which is not upper
case letter, digit, "-", or "_".
*** Error: Keyword #20: Name "GPS_ExpU" contains char "x" which is not upper
case letter, digit, "-", or "_".
*** Error: Keyword #24: Name "GPS_Tmp" contains char "m" which is not upper
case letter, digit, "-", or "_".
*** Error: Keyword #35: Name "GPS_Seq" contains char "e" which is not upper
case letter, digit, "-", or "_".
because in the FITS keywords shall be only upper case letters.
We have had this problem for a long time, it just went unnoticed. To conform to the FITS standard, it would be good if it could be repaired - not very urgent.
Thanks.
Christian
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Hi,
thanks for the heads up. I hope that any processing software is going to be case insensitive when searching for the header names otherwise making this change could break people's workflow
Cheers, Robin
thanks for the heads up. I hope that any processing software is going to be case insensitive when searching for the header names otherwise making this change could break people's workflow
Cheers, Robin
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Hi Robin,
I attach a sample FITS with manually corrected keywords (done with AstroImageJ which is able to edit the keywords also https://www.astro.louisville.edu/software/astroimagej/). This file passes the FITS File Verifier.
I've opened it with various software (including SC ), there were no problems.
Christian
I attach a sample FITS with manually corrected keywords (done with AstroImageJ which is able to edit the keywords also https://www.astro.louisville.edu/software/astroimagej/). This file passes the FITS File Verifier.
I've opened it with various software (including SC ), there were no problems.
Christian
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Hi,
thanks Cristian, that sounds promising. I've made the change now and it will be in the next update to SharpCap 3.3.
Cheers, Robin
thanks Cristian, that sounds promising. I've made the change now and it will be in the next update to SharpCap 3.3.
Cheers, Robin