I've had mixed success with PCC. When I can get it to run to completion, I've been very pleased with the results. Other times it will fail and I can't figure out what the issue is.
I've been working on a wide field image taken during the recent Perseids meteor shower and I haven't been able to get PCC to run to completion. I've done the image solution separately using Image Solver so I can isolate those problems from the PCC issues.
A Dropbox link to the xisf file is here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/32mop4l7jvdtuyk/IMG_9399_d_solved.xisf?dl=0I'd greatly appreciate any assistance or suggestions folks might have to resolve this problem.
Sincerely,
Mike Hayford
PS:
Console window output is:
PhotometricColorCalibration: Processing view: IMG_9399_d
Writing swap files...
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** Warning: Forcing a photometric aperture of 5 pixels.
* Using an automatically calculated limit magnitude of 9.
run -x -p="phot_apertureShape,1" -p="phot_minimumAperture,5" -p="phot_apertureSteps,1" -p="phot_apertureStepSize,1" -p="phot_bkgWindowMode,1" -p="phot_bkgModel,1" -p="phot_backgroundSigmaLow,5" -p="phot_backgroundSigmaHigh,2.7" -p="phot_bkgAperture1,45" -p="phot_bkgAperture2,60" -p="phot_bkgMMTlayers,8" -p="phot_minSNR,4" -p="phot_showFoundStars,false" -p="phot_maxMagnitude,9" -p="phot_defaultFocal,10.44" -p="phot_gain,1" -p="phot_saturationThreshold,0.95" -p="phot_manualFilter,true" -p="phot_filter,Johnson V" -p="phot_filterKeyword,FILTER" -p="phot_margin,15" -p="phot_catalogName,APASS" -p="phot_catalogFilter,Vmag" -p="phot_vizierServer,http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/" -p="phot_useActive,false" -p="phot_extractMode,0" -p="phot_manualObjects,[]" -p="phot_outputDir,/var/folders/l9/xpbx7gmx4s15532yb240gdm00000gn/T" -p="phot_outputPrefix,PCC_" -p="phot_generateFileTable,true" -p="phot_generateFluxTable,true" -p="phot_generatePSFFluxTable,true" -p="phot_generateBackgTable,false" -p="phot_generateSNRTable,false" -p="phot_generateFlagTable,false" -p="phot_saveDiagnostic,false" -p="phot_autoSolve,false" -p="phot_forceSolve,false" -p="phot_solverUseImageMetadata,false" -p="phot_saveSolve,false" -p="phot_solveSuffix,_WCS" -p="phot_generateErrorLog,false" -p="phot_showBackgroundModel,false" -p="phot_files,/var/folders/l9/xpbx7gmx4s15532yb240gdm00000gn/T/PCC_R_UQ1QGBMOD0U6.xisf|/var/folders/l9/xpbx7gmx4s15532yb240gdm00000gn/T/PCC_G_D30HYU658XJY.xisf|/var/folders/l9/xpbx7gmx4s15532yb240gdm00000gn/T/PCC_B_6UVD1PFDWEN9.xisf" -p="non_interactive,true" -p="isGlobalTarget,true" -p="isViewTarget,false" "/Applications/PixInsight/src/scripts/AdP/AperturePhotometry.js"
Processing script file: /Applications/PixInsight/src/scripts/AdP/AperturePhotometry.js
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Processing image /var/folders/l9/xpbx7gmx4s15532yb240gdm00000gn/T/PCC_R_UQ1QGBMOD0U6.xisf
Reading image:
/var/folders/l9/xpbx7gmx4s15532yb240gdm00000gn/T/PCC_R_UQ1QGBMOD0U6.xisf
Loading image: w=6024 h=4022 n=1 Gray UInt16
9 image properties
44 FITS keyword(s) extracted.
Reference image: PCC_R_UQ1QGBMOD0U6
Downloading Vizier data:
http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/asu-tsv?-source=II/336/apass9&-c=262.123532 20.794306&-c.r=180.000000&-c.u=deg&-out.form=|&-out.add=_RAJ,_DEJ&-out=B-V&-out=Vmag&-out=Bmag&-out=g'mag&-out=r'mag&-out=i'mag&Vmag=0..9
1783 bytes transferred in 120.84 s @ 0.01 KiB/s
Removed 0 duplicated objects
fov:180.000000 actual:0.000000
Catalog APASS size: 0 objects inside the image
*** Error: Failure to process image file '/var/folders/l9/xpbx7gmx4s15532yb240gdm00000gn/T/PCC_R_UQ1QGBMOD0U6.xisf': Could not find any stars in the catalog
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Processing image /var/folders/l9/xpbx7gmx4s15532yb240gdm00000gn/T/PCC_G_D30HYU658XJY.xisf
Reading image:
/var/folders/l9/xpbx7gmx4s15532yb240gdm00000gn/T/PCC_G_D30HYU658XJY.xisf
Loading image: w=6024 h=4022 n=1 Gray UInt16
9 image properties
44 FITS keyword(s) extracted.
Reference image: PCC_G_D30HYU658XJY
Star search aperture: 2.00 pixels
1 view(s)
0 star(s)
0 PSF fittings
*** Error: Failure to process image file '/var/folders/l9/xpbx7gmx4s15532yb240gdm00000gn/T/PCC_G_D30HYU658XJY.xisf': Could not locate any stars in the image
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Processing image /var/folders/l9/xpbx7gmx4s15532yb240gdm00000gn/T/PCC_B_6UVD1PFDWEN9.xisf
Reading image:
/var/folders/l9/xpbx7gmx4s15532yb240gdm00000gn/T/PCC_B_6UVD1PFDWEN9.xisf
Loading image: w=6024 h=4022 n=1 Gray UInt16
9 image properties
44 FITS keyword(s) extracted.
Reference image: PCC_B_6UVD1PFDWEN9
Calculating image noise: sigma=53.466 count=54.98% layers=4
Multiscale median transform: done
Multiscale reconstruction: done
Normalizing sample values: done
Aperture Photometry:
Aperture: 5.000000 px
Image resolution: 74.096417 sec/px
Calculating photometry: Processed 0 stars in 0.000000 seconds
Writing output file: /var/folders/l9/xpbx7gmx4s15532yb240gdm00000gn/T/PCC_B_6UVD1PFDWEN9.csv
*** Error: Failure to process image file '/var/folders/l9/xpbx7gmx4s15532yb240gdm00000gn/T/PCC_B_6UVD1PFDWEN9.xisf': TypeError: area is null
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Photometry process finished:
0 of 3 images processed successfully.
3 images with errors.
3 errors and warnings.
*** Error: Failure to calculate photometry: IMG_9399_d
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<* failed *>
