Calibration impossible

[Myrdinn]

Hello,

I have just bought and install Pixinsight.

I have built the master dark, offset and flat field, and when I want to calibrate my images, the process stop when saving the files :



Do you have an idea of what's going on ?

It works when I set to TIFF but not when it's set to FIT

I tried on a laptop with Win7 64b and an iMac with MacOSX 10.6.8 (on the mac I tried with pixinsight 32b and 64b) and I have always the same result.

Thank you for your help.

[Carlos Milovic]

Maybe if you rename the file, and don't use parenthesis "(", ")" it will work...

[Juan Conejero]

Hi,

Carlos is correct: parentheses '([{}])' cannot be used in FITS file names. The problem is in the CFITSIO library, which PixInsight uses to support the FITS format. CFITSIO interprets parentheses as a special 'syntax' to generate FITS files with special features. This problem is actually rather old:

http://pixinsight.com/forum/index.php?topic=1254.0

It is my fault, since the FITS module should provide useful information about the cause of these errors. I'll try to publish an update to the FITS module with this problem (the error information, not the error itself) fixed as soon as possible.

Workaround: rename your FITS files to avoid use of parentheses.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

[Myrdinn]

It worked. Thank you for your quick replies

It's so obvious, I didn't even think about it... MaximDL named the files and I didn't change them. Sometimes I feel dumb