UCAC4 to fits

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Luís Filipe

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Nov 25, 2022, 6:17:27 AM11/25/22
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Hello,
I am trying to use the UCAC4 catalog, but I would like the files to be in fits format, instead of the binary that they are given.
I found that there was a function ucac4tofits in astrometry that does this, but I can't manage to use it. If i try to run it from the terminal, it does not find the command.

When I use other commands like wcs-rd2xy, it works.

How can I use astrometry to transform the binary files from UCAC4 to fits?

Thank You,
Luís

Dustin Lang

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Nov 25, 2022, 9:17:35 AM11/25/22
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Hi,

The ucac4tofits program isn't built by default.  You would have to do (in the astrometry.net source directory):
cd catalogs
make ucac4tofits

cheers,
dustin


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Dustin Lang

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Nov 25, 2022, 9:18:11 AM11/25/22
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PS you could also try downloading it in FITS format from

Dustin Lang

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Nov 25, 2022, 1:45:25 PM11/25/22
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If you get this:


luis@luis-VirtualBox:~/Desktop/astrometry.net-0.89/catalogs$ make ucac4tofits
gcc  -g -Wall -ffinite-math-only -fno-signaling-nans -pthread -march=native -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -DNDEBUG -fpic -Winline -I../include -I../include/astrometry -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_GNU_SOURCE -DAN_GIT_REVISION='"0.89"' -DAN_GIT_DATE='"Mon_Jan_17_07:47:26_2022_-0500"' -DAN_GIT_URL='"https://github.com/dstndstn/astrometry.net"'     -I../include -I../include/astrometry -I../gsl-an -I/usr/include/wcslib    -I../include -I../include/astrometry -I../gsl-an -I/usr/include/wcslib -I. -I../util    -c -o 2mass.o 2mass.c
In file included from 2mass.c:10:
../include/astrometry/os-features.h:8:10: fatal error: astrometry/os-features-config.h: No such file or directory
    8 | #include "astrometry/os-features-config.h"
      |          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
make: *** [<builtin>: 2mass.o] Error 1

then please try

cd ..
make reconfig
cd catalogs
make ucac4tofits


cheers,
dustin

Luís Filipe

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Nov 25, 2022, 2:42:28 PM11/25/22
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Hello,
I get the same error when i run make on the astrometry folder.~

Tried:
cd..
make reconfig
cd catalogs
make ucac4tofits

and 

cd..
make
cd catalogs
make ucac4tofits

cc  -g -Wall -ffinite-math-only -fno-signaling-nans -pthread -march=native -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -DNDEBUG -fpic -Winline -I../include -I../include/astrometry -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_GNU_SOURCE -DAN_GIT_REVISION='"0.89"' -DAN_GIT_DATE='"Mon_Jan_17_07:47:26_2022_-0500"' -DAN_GIT_URL='"https://github.com/dstndstn/astrometry.net"'     -I../include -I../include/astrometry -I../gsl-an -I/usr/include/wcslib    -I../include -I../include/astrometry -I../gsl-an -I/usr/include/wcslib -I. -I../util    -c -o 2mass.o 2mass.c
rm -f libcatalogs.a
ar rc libcatalogs.a openngc.o brightstars.o constellations.o tycho2-fits.o tycho2.o usnob-fits.o usnob.o nomad.o nomad-fits.o ucac3-fits.o ucac3.o ucac4-fits.o ucac4.o ucac5-fits.o ucac5.o 2mass-fits.o 2mass.o hd.o constellation-boundaries.o
ranlib libcatalogs.a
make: *** No rule to make target '../gsl-an/libgsl-an.a', needed by 'ucac4tofits'.  Stop.

Dustin Lang

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Nov 25, 2022, 2:56:45 PM11/25/22
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oh, yes, sorry, can you do a "git pull" and try again?


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Luís Filipe

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Nov 25, 2022, 3:12:52 PM11/25/22
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Sorry, I still get the same error.

Dustin Lang

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Nov 25, 2022, 3:35:04 PM11/25/22
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uhh, weird?

Okay, can you try

cd ..
export SYSTEM_GSL=no
make
cd catalogs
make ucac4tofits


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Luís Filipe

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Nov 25, 2022, 4:15:55 PM11/25/22
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Hello,

Now it says this:

gcc  -g -Wall -ffinite-math-only -fno-signaling-nans -pthread -march=native -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -DNDEBUG -fpic -Winline -I../include -I../include/astrometry -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_GNU_SOURCE -DAN_GIT_REVISION='"0.89"' -DAN_GIT_DATE='"Mon_Jan_17_07:47:26_2022_-0500"' -DAN_GIT_URL='"https://github.com/dstndstn/astrometry.net"'     -I../include -I../include/astrometry -I../gsl-an -I/usr/include/wcslib    -I../include -I../include/astrometry -I../gsl-an -I/usr/include/wcslib -I. -I../util    -c -o 2mass.o 2mass.c
rm -f libcatalogs.a
ar rc libcatalogs.a openngc.o brightstars.o constellations.o tycho2-fits.o tycho2.o usnob-fits.o usnob.o nomad.o nomad-fits.o ucac3-fits.o ucac3.o ucac4-fits.o ucac4.o ucac5-fits.o ucac5.o 2mass-fits.o 2mass.o hd.o constellation-boundaries.o
ranlib libcatalogs.a
gcc -o ucac4tofits  -g -Wall -ffinite-math-only -fno-signaling-nans -pthread -march=native -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -DNDEBUG -fpic -Winline ucac4tofits.o libcatalogs.a ../util/libanfiles.a ../libkd/libkd.a ../util/libanutils.a ../qfits-an/libqfits.a ../util/libanbase.a ../gsl-an/libgsl-an.a          -lwcs -lm -lm       -lwcs -lm -lm -lm -lbz2

It doesn't seem like an error, but when i now put ucac4tofits on terminal, it still says command not found

Dustin Lang

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Nov 25, 2022, 5:23:34 PM11/25/22
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you would have to run
 ./ucac4tofits

because it's in the current directory, not in your PATH.




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Luís Filipe

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Nov 26, 2022, 4:43:42 PM11/26/22
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Hello, 
Sorry to bother again. I only tried to use it again now.
When i try on a single portion of the catalog, to test, I have this error:

luis@luis-VirtualBox:~$ /home/luis/Desktop/astrometry.net-0.89/catalogs/ucac4tofits  /home/luis/Desktop/Catalogos/CDS-322A/UCAC4/u4b/z750
Nside = 9, using 972 healpixes.
Reading /home/luis/Desktop/Catalogos/CDS-322A/UCAC4/u4b/z750
ucac4tofits.c:131:main: bzip2 error: code -5

Dustin Lang

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Nov 27, 2022, 2:12:18 PM11/27/22
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Are you passing the filenames of the *.bz2 files?  That's what ucac4tofits expects.


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