Affiliation
American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO)
Mon, 03/19/2018 - 20:27
The VPhot server was taken down last Wednesday by hackers. I've been tasked to resurrect it. I have made significant progress and have it working on the debugger server. The problem I'm faced with now is moving to public view using IIS.
Before I dive into the documentation on how to do this I thought I would ask: Any members out there with experience deploying an ASP.NET webapp on IIS 7.0? If you think you can help, please contact me at SGEO@GASilvis.net.
Many thanks,
George
Hi George,
Thank you for resurrecting VPhot.
The last time I used VPhot was about two weeks before hackers brought it down. Back then when I used the Upload Wizard, VPhot would flag that my FITS header was missing OBJECT, OBJCTRA, OBJCTDEC, and FILTER. Thankfully it allowed me to enter the info manually. After that I was able to upload an entire series of images.
Today, I tried VPhot for the first time since resurrection. Now it stops with this message:
"Invalid or missing exposure time (EXPTIME or EXPOSURE). Can not continue."
It will not allow me to type it in. And even stranger is that my FITS header actually contains "EXPOSURE = 7".
Is it possible that an older version of the VPhot software is running? I have been a member of AAVSO for only about three months so I cannot tell if this is an old version or if it is newer and perhaps has bug.
Thanks very much,
Brian
MBDA
Hi Brian,
Not sure what the issue is. Please send me your fits file.
Thanks
George
SGEO@gasilvis.net
Brian,
VPhot was ignoring your EXPOSURE value because it was "7.". Not really reasonable since you clearly mean 7.0 or 7.0000000 or 7.000000E+000, all of which it would accept.
I'll add this to the the list of fixups we're working on. Meanwhile you will need to fix the header before you upload.
George
George,
Thank you, it works great now!
Brian