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PCC Failure (Photometric Color Calibration)

James Glucksman
in PixInsight
Everything was going swimmingly with my Fastrack Course, all the steps I did went just as they did in the videos, and I was a happy camper. That is, until we got to the PCC step. I downloaded the full image that Adam made available, and I had downloaded all the GAIS and APASS files and installed them into my application. I followed all the steps that Adam went through, and I had all my settings in the script exactly as Adam did, and yet....failure! See the error message attached. I have tried on some of my images, too, and none of them works. Clearly I'm doing something wrong, but I have no idea what!

Comments

  • BlockHeadBlockHead
    People that have run into this problem *think* they have all of the GAIA (and APASS) files installed, not actually not (or not loaded). That is one thing to look at. It is possible that the images are not calibrated correctly (somehow). That is another possibility. 

    So... you will need to do some fitness "proving" to make certain the above are not the issue. 
    I have not heard of any more widespread issues...so I think everything is OK at the moment.

    -the Blockhead 
  • James Glucksman
    Thank you Blockhead for your response--which it turns out is correct! I had not realised that I needed to load all the GAIA files at one go, rather than one at a time, so what I ended up doing was try to plate solve with barely 1/16 of all the GAIA resources available to me! D'oh!
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