Hello everyone:
I am back capturing photons after a 3 years hiatus. I have a project going on XZ And. I took data, Used Vphot to do photometry, used Transform Applier and uploaded transformed data using WebObs. It took some growing pain but it finally worked. (I had to unlearn a few things I was doing when Transform Applier was done on my own computer).
In the same field of XZ And I found there is another variable, V0548, which has no data in the AAVSO database of observations. I requested a A AVSO UID, and received it right away. UID is 000-BPD-648. I run Vphot, got photometry, transformed and tried to upload the observation file, following the exact same successful steps as XZ And. Now I receive this oh so helpful error message:
"Line Number 2037: It looks like you have 1 fields which is not the correct number (should be 15). Did you use the delimiter character in your 'notes' field? Please fix this in the file before submitting."
My "Notes" field is empty.
Help?
Thanks!
Marco (CMAA)
Hi Marco:
Line number 2037 indicates that you have a very long time series! Is that correct? TA does add a lot of extra lines that are commented out (#).
If you look at this line, is there anything unusual about any of the fields? How does it compare to all the other lines? Don't limit your inspection to the notes field.
You could copy and paste that section of the report file in your response.
Ken
PS: You didn't by mistake try to use the report from the third TA box?
Good to hear from…
Hi Ken:
Good to hear from you! The file was indeed long (about 700 data points over two nights) but the issue was that the transformation of one set of V data encountered problems and Transform Applier "Truncated" the file. There was an added line to the TA report (at the end) that said : Warning :Truncated.
This line confused WebObs.
I took out the line and the file uploaded with no problems. You can now plot a light curve of V0458, with BVI data. I also added the un-transformed V data. The transformation of my set-up are tiny (mag changes by 0.02 most of the time) because the color index coefficients are all just about = 1 and the Filter Band coefficient about zero.
Marco
Marco:
Your observation that the error message was not clear/accurate enough is correct. Available documented error messages are sometimes not able to explain all the possible errors that may occur and may unfortunately lead one astray! It requires a little effort to figure it out as you did!
Ken
I “grew up” in computers with Microsoft. There, “unknown errors” reign supreme! The one from WebObs, at least, was pointing at something way down the file.
In any case, the new Transform Applier works much better that the old one. Great work there!
Marco