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Offline alanrock

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Unable to open file
« on: 2019 November 25 07:48:19 »
Out of about 120 images I captured the other night, for some reason my green subs all give me this error message when I try to open them. I will say that I had to stop my image capture because I was running out of space on my SD card. I made some room on the card and resumed. I thought everything was ok, but I get this error on all the files then I try to open them. Any ideas?

*** Error: PCL Legacy FITS Format Support: Unable to open FITS file: /Volumes/ASTR WIN/Pictures/Astronomy/Lights/Pleiades/Pleiades_15sec_1x1_2019-11-22_frame4__G.fit
CFITSIO error message stack:
01 : ffopen could not interpret primary array header of file:
02 : /Volumes/ASTR WIN/Pictures/Astronomy/Lights/Pleiades/Pleiades_15sec_1x1_2019-11-
03 : 22_frame4__G.fit
*** Unable to open file: /Volumes/ASTR WIN/Pictures/Astronomy/Lights/Pleiades/Pleiades_15sec_1x1_2019-11-22_frame4__G.fit

Offline pfile

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Re: Unable to open file
« Reply #1 on: 2019 November 25 08:54:49 »
the files are probably corrupt - this error means that PI could not recognize the file as a proper FITS file.

you can check the file sizes to see if they don't seem right compared to your good frames... if they are small files then there's probably nothing in them.

rob

Offline alanrock

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Re: Unable to open file
« Reply #2 on: 2019 November 25 08:59:06 »
Rob to the rescue yet again! The files are Zero bytes, which may be a bit small ;-)
Thanks!
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