[APBeta] Creating objects from DSS images - enhancement request

[Bruce Pipes]

If only one is implemented, I would prefer (a). Either will do what I  
want, though.

Thanks,
Bruce

On Jan 2, 2009, at 6:53 PM, Paul Rodman wrote:

>
> On Jan 2, 2009, at 03:47 PM, Bruce Pipes wrote:
>
>> No urgency in this; when you have killed most of the bugs, I'd  
>> appreciate your taking a look at it, though. I'd like to be able to  
>> control-click on a point in a DSS image and create an object in a  
>> plan centered on that point. You can currently do this in the FOV  
>> window, but if your are trying to center a particular feature of a  
>> DSO in an imager you have to get the RA and Dec from the DSS image,  
>> set the cursor to that point in the FOV, and control-click. It  
>> would be great not to have to transfer the coordinates from the DSS  
>> image to the FOV.
>
> Well, as I see it, you want one or both of two options: (a) create a  
> new object based on the RA/Dec of the cursor in the DSS image, or  
> (b) centre the FOV on the RA/Dec of the cursor in the DSS image.
>
>> Now what would be ever better, but not essential, would be to be  
>> able to do the above by overlaying the DSS image on the FOV.
>
> I'm getting closer to doing that, but probably not for V2. I need to  
> revise the FOV code, which is quite messy.
>
> Paul R.
>
> _______________________________________________
> APBeta mailing list
> APBeta at lists.astroplanner.net
> http://lists.astroplanner.net/listinfo.cgi/apbeta-astroplanner.net