Problems/Ideas (Debian 12)

[Christoph Quandt]

Hi Han,

I have a background in spectroscopy (as an amateur I do research on Rho Cas/YHGs and work mainly with ESO-MIDAS) and would now like to get into photometry with as little effort as possible. I came across your software. Great work!!!

I use Debian 12 with Gnome 43.9 under Wayland and I noticed some problems:

1) Empty info windows or too big info windows open. This doesn't seem to have any influence on the actual functionality - but it hinders the workflow.

2) With less than three analyzed images, the AAVSO report has the problem that no or only a variable star is displayed. However, you can enter names/identifiers, whereupon the data point is drawn graphically. It is not possible to output the report to ASCII or to the clipboard. Are there statistics running in the background that require a minimum of n data points or is this a bug?

I also have a few feature ideas or I don't know enough about where what is implemented:

1) Possibility to include only a definable area around an object in the measurement for optics with wide fields, which have a high distortion at the edge. This could possibly increase the accuracy. Or alternatively cropping via batch processing.

2) Output of the data (measured values, errors, S/N, statistics...) for all variables and reference stars used in the field via ASCII with definable format (AAVSO, BAA,...)

3) Photometry module for smartphones to lower the hurdle even further and possibly get more people interested in science.

Cheers
Christoph

[fedorauser]

1) Es öffnen sich leere oder zu große Infofenster. Dies scheint keinen Einfluss auf die eigentliche Funktionalität zu haben – behindert aber den Arbeitsablauf.

Same phenomenon under Ubuntu with the Gnome desktop.

Use the QT5 variant and the problem is solved, even the errors in the GUI no longer occur.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/astap-program/files/linux_installer/

[Christoph Quandt]

Hi fedorauser,

very nice - it works ;)

I should have looked at the threads for this point beforehand - sorry!

Thanks
Christoph

[fedorauser]

No problem, you're welcome