Corpze Posted September 10, 2016 Report Share Posted September 10, 2016 (edited) Hi, i am looking for a program that helps me choose what object to image. I have been looking into Astro Planner (maybe you have a better suggestion?) One feature of Astro Planner is that you can export your list - but can it export to Sequence? The target file in sequence uses a .trg fiel extension and contains this; <?xml version="1.0"?> <clsTarget xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"> <Name /> <ObjRa>00h53m45,6s</ObjRa> <ObjDe>+56d42m26s</ObjDe> <FocRa>00h25m42,0s</FocRa> <FocDe>+61d55m26s</FocDe> <Comment /> </clsTarget> This should not be that hard to script if possible in Astro Planner right? /Daniel Edited September 10, 2016 by Corpze Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nakbrooks Posted September 10, 2016 Report Share Posted September 10, 2016 What does the Astro Planner exported file look like Daniel? If it is XML it should be simple to use XSLT to translate it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corpze Posted September 10, 2016 Author Report Share Posted September 10, 2016 Just downloaded the program (no license so i have limited functionality) and after a quick look it looks like i can export as text document and .xlshow ever, you can script Astro planner, am looking into it right now.How does XSLT works? i have never used that before? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nakbrooks Posted September 10, 2016 Report Share Posted September 10, 2016 XSLT translates structured text files (typically XML) from one structure to another. Probably best to see if scripting will do the job first rather than complicate things by adding XSLT into the pipeline, but that may be an option if scripting fails. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxmirot Posted September 11, 2016 Report Share Posted September 11, 2016 Please show us how us how do this. I would love to import into Sequence. Max Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nakbrooks Posted September 11, 2016 Report Share Posted September 11, 2016 Sorry, I don't have any knowledge of Astro Planner myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corpze Posted September 11, 2016 Author Report Share Posted September 11, 2016 (edited) I have been looking into it a bit and the .xls file that you can export is HUGE - i can't even insert it as code on this forum.There is how ever a script example in AStro planner for running a export script to CCD commander, maybe we can start out from that?I have never scripted before but it shouldn't be that difficult?Here is the script code for CCDc; //- Paul Rodman, Jan 2010 //- //- V1.0 25 Jan 2010 //- Initial Release //- V1.1 25 Jan 2010 //- Minor changes (Juan Gonzalez) //- V1.2 8 Feb 2010 //- Modified for V2 //- V1.3 15 Oct 2012 //- Added ability to choose ID, Name, or Both as object identifier //# Name: CCD Commander Export //# URL: //# Author: Paul Rodman //# E-Mail: paul@ilanga.com //# Category: Export|Imaging //# MinVersion: 2.0 //# Keywords: Export, Imaging, CCD Commander function FormatCoordinate(v as double) as string dim s as string s = format(abs(v),"00.000000") s = left(s,2)+"."+mid(s,4) // Force decimal period (.) while left(s,1)="0" and left(s,2)"0." s=mid(s,2) wend if v return s end function sub main() dim tf as APTextFile dim i as integer dim id,sra,sdec as string dim ob as APPlanObject dim nid as integer = Plan().RestoreValue("nid",0) dim dlg as new Dialog dlg.ChoiceParameter("Object Identifier",nid,"ID","Name","Both (ID_Name)") if not dlg.Show("CCD Commander Export") then return nid = dlg.ChoiceParameter("Object Identifier") Plan().SaveValue("nid",nid) // Create output file tf = APTextFile.WriteFile ("export.txt") if tf=nil then return // Output a line for each object for i = 1 to Plan().nObjects ob = Plan().Obj(i) select case nid case 0 id = ob.ID case 1 id = ob.Name else if ob.Name="" then id=ob.ID elseif ob.ID="" then id=ob.Name else id = ob.ID+"_"+ob.Name end if end select id = ReplaceAll(id,",","-") // Replace any commas with hyphens id = ReplaceAll(id,"/","") // Remove the slash sign id = ReplaceAll(id," ","_") // Replace spaces tf.Write id+","+FormatCoordinate(ob.RA)+","+FormatCoordinate(ob.Dec)+chr(13)+chr(10) next tf.Close end sub The .trg file is quite simple and only uses a few lines - i do not know how to write this script though :/And we have to get the nearby focus star as well... Hmpf/Daniel Edited September 11, 2016 by Corpze Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxmirot Posted September 12, 2016 Report Share Posted September 12, 2016 (edited) I sent Paul Rodman the author of Astroplanner. The email below. He is willing to help us. I don't use Sequence that much yet but hope to soon with Astroplanner import. Can someone post a few .trg files with a few targets and focus stars that I can forward to him? Max ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sure. Send me some sample XML files and I will figure out what you'll need to do. Paul RodmanSent from my iPad On Sep 12, 2016, at 12:07 PM, Mirot, Max Max.Mirot@canyonvistamedicalcenter.com> wrote: Paul, I just purchased AstroPlanner. I see it has a lot of ways to export including scripting. I use the automation program called Sequence by ASA telescopes that supports their direct drive mounts. Several members of the ASA user group are also interested in exporting from Astroplanner into Sequence. Sequence takes a XML file. Can you help us configure or script this output? I can send you some sample files that we need to emulate. Thanks Max Edited September 12, 2016 by maxmirot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corpze Posted September 13, 2016 Author Report Share Posted September 13, 2016 I could post a few .trg files tonight when i am at home. But - i think the most important thing is to get a good focus star, and how does Sequence chooses the star? /Daniel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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