Re: AIJ help
Posted by
karenacollins on
Feb 06, 2021; 8:56am
URL: http://astroimagej.170.s1.nabble.com/AIJ-help-tp1491p1492.html
Plate-solving is not required for photometry runs as long as there
are not huge shifts in your pointing from image to image. In the
latter case, you will notice that your apertures loose the stars at
some point during the processing of the stack. Otherwise, you are
okay without plate solutions.
I'm really at a loss as to how to help solve your problem with the
given information. I think it would be helpful to share some screen
shots of your settings (e.g. multi-aperture setup panel, multiplot
panels, the plot image, image display panel showing aperture
placement, and anything else that might be relevant).
When you say "user guide", are you referring to the standard AIJ
user guide or
Dennis Conti's user guide?
I'd recommend following Dennis' guide if you aren't already doing
that.
Karen
On 2/5/2021 7:01 PM, cmaier [via
AstroImageJ] wrote:
I've followed the user guide to the point where the multiplot main
window, measurement window and main plot windows open after
selecting the stars but my data looks like it wants to plot in
columns in the plot window. In the measurement table there's
values for j.d. 240000 and jd_utc as well as the rel_flux_T1,C2,C3
etc. I cant seem to get these values to plot correctly..thanks for
any help. BTW, these files have been calibrated in pixinsight.
Also, I hadn't had luck plate solving them either with asnvr or
nova.astronmetry.net. Do the files need to be plate solved before
generating a light curve? Thanks for any help