When I click on this link (see image) below and I got this error (see image below).
Can this be fixed? @dstn ?
I need the fits images to use them in a photometry program to calculate an apparent magnitude if I want to report a supernova candidate.
Hello. I have a problem downloading FITS catalogs. When I click the * Catalog (FITS table), then it does not compress the file. If I download by browser, and then import it into the FPC in the FITS photometry program, then I get an error message.
Error: FITSLD cannot open this file. The file you have provided may have been modified, damaged, or corrupt. Please visit the Help Portal for more information.
Are you using your browser’s “Save As…” feature?
Note that the link you have sent is a CATALOG - it’s a table of measurements, not an image. A FITS image viewing program is not going to be able to understand it.
cheers,
dustin
Hi,
Those catalog files are valid FITS files. If you have some other app that can’t open them, then that’s really not my problem! If that program really wants the file to be compressed for some reason, you could always compress it before feeding it to that program - eg by using gzip.
cheers,
dustin