Hi Steve,

I've been using the plate solve feature inside of EZ-Guide with much success and enjoyment, at least until tonight.

Rather suddenly, I'm getting an error pop-up message about how the image header (OBJECT) doesn't match my Target Selection. In my case tonight, my target was IC434. The FITS file I pointed EZ-Guide at was an image of IC434 I had taken in recent weeks.

I'm not sure what is going on but perhaps you do?

Any thoughts?

Thanks,
Jonathan

Jonathan,

In the current version, the FITS header element "OBJECT" must exactly match the target name. Check the OBJECT name in MaxImDL or CCDSoft and see if it's an exact match.

There is a new version about to be released that relaxes this constraint.

I think I understand what's happening. When I first imaged IC434, that's what was in the OBJECT field. When I subsequently went to plan for it, I use the plate solve feature of EZ-Guide and it solved it fine. However, the plan got imported into CCDAP not as IC434, but as the FITS filename of that plate solved image. Then when those images were captured, their OBJECT field now contained the FITS filename (which included IC434) and that whole field no longer string matches to simply IC434.

Interesting that this happened this way. I never look at meta information and hence, never noticed it before.

Looking forward (as always) to new versions! :-)

Thanks,
Jonathan