Getting RA/DEC coordinates of the cursor

[carl]

Hi,

I'm starting to do some photometry of images and whilst it's useful to get the figures from catalog stars, I want to also include a number of my own points on the frame to measure.

Is there any way to get the WCS Coordinates (RA/DEC) of the pointer's location on the image? Something similar to what DS9 does where you can click on various points and it dumps the coords into a text file would be absolutely perfect.

Thanks,
C.

[Andres.Pozo]

You can launch AnnotateImage and open the preview window. When you move the cursor over the preview image you can see the RA/DEC coordinates under the preview image.

[Juan Conejero]

Hi Carl,

This feature is already being implemented in the PixInsight core application. I am considering including it in the incoming 1.8.6 version, depending on how much time it may take to polish and test it well. At any rate, this will be available on version 1.8.6.x.

BTW, the code to implement this functionality has been contributed by Andrés to our PCL development platform, so he deserves the accolades

[carl]

This is excellent. Thank you so much for the tip and product update too.

[carl]

Similar to this, is there a way to determine the distance between two points on the image? It would obviously involve some plate solving and then doing a bit of trig, but having some kind of scale measure would be really useful for some situations (e.g. when reporting on the length of a stellar stream, etc.)

Thx,
C.