Peter when you're back, or anybody else who knows,
I've got a funny with GAIA. There is an image file and a catalogue file
at
ftp://andromeda.star.bris.ac.uk/pub/star/data/gaia/iras_psc.fits
messier.TAB
These are basically full-sky data sets. If I load the FITS file and
then the catalogue (Data-Servers|Local Catalogs|Load from file...),
not all the points from the catalogue show up, only those within
a certain RA range (e.g. M1 and M2 are missing, the first one visible
is M3). If I subsequently Select Area... over a missing part of the
data (e.g. top left) followed by Search, the missing objects in
the selected region show up.
I suspect this could be a bug related to the fact that the field of
view is very large (whole sky). However it may be some kind of a
feature that I don't understand.
Mark
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Mark Taylor Astronomical Programmer Physics, Bristol University, UK
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