Aperture Photometry script: User defined objects

[CraigNZ]

Is there an easy way to select from an image only the stars I want to use in the Aperture Photometry script?

I have 35 images spread over 3 hours that I want to list the flux for just a few selected stars.

I tried using 1 image, finding the stars I wanted in the output table and then entering the Star ID (column B) into the user defined stars table but it could not find the stars.  For example this star:   210220.7-094031         
 is listed in the table but it cannot find it when I add it to user defined stars.  To do it by coordinates means I have to translate the position in degrees to hh.mm.ss or dd.mm.ss which takes quite a while.

Ideally the best way would be to select the first image, output a detected stars image, click on the ones I want and then have the script follow these stars over the 35 images and give me the detailed data.  As a minimum I should be able to add by star id.

[Andres.Pozo]

Hi CraigNZ,

what you suggest, while nice, is a lot of work. I don't know if I can commit enough time to implement this.

Meanwhile, the script measures all the stars of the image found in the catalog that you selected. You can filter by magnitude and if there are stars that you don't want you can edit the output files using Excel, OpenOffice or any text editor.

[CraigNZ]

Hi Andres,

Fair enough, what I can do for my immediate needs is to write a Post Processor which will load in one or more csv files and reformat the data to a new csv file.  In the long run though I see a lot of additions to the Aperture Photometry script, if it is okay with you, I could adopt the script and provide support and updates in the future.

Craig