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Hi Peter,

Thanks for you help.

Cheers
Dave

On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Peter W. Draper <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, David Nutter wrote:
>
>> That worked a treat, thanks. The other question I had is can I view
>> the quality in gaia? NDFTRACE shows that the fie has data,quality &
>> variance components, but gaia's 'Select NDF in container file' has
>> both 'hasvar' and 'hasqual' as false, and only the data button is not
>> greyed out when the file is selected.
>
> Hi Dave,
>
> you need to choose quality (or variance/error) as the component to display
> in the cube toolbox. Do this under "Options->NDF data component" in the cube
> toolbox.
>
> The slice you see in the main window is kept simple, i.e. just has the
> component you want to look at, for speed reasons.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Peter.
>
>> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Peter W. Draper
>> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, David Nutter wrote:
>>>
>>>> I've put the file in the following dir.
>>>> http://www.astro.cf.ac.uk/pub/David.Nutter/transfer/
>>>>
>>>> One difference that I noticed between this file and others. When Gaia
>>>> does eventually produce a trace, it has drawn error bars at each point
>>>> of the time series. Is it the calculation and drawing of these bars
>>>> that is causing Gaia to lock up? Can these be disabled?
>>>
>>> Hi Dave,
>>>
>>> thanks, actually this final point is the issue.
>>>
>>> To stop drawing the error bars just unselect that option in the spectral
>>> extraction window (Options->Error bars). This is a persistent option so
>>> once
>>> deselected will remain set or unset. If you get bored waiting for GAIA to
>>> respond so you can switch this off you can reset this before starting
>>> GAIA
>>> by editing the file ~/.skycat/properties. Look for the line that says
>>> "GaiaSpectralPlot:use_errors_ = 1" and change 1 that to 0.
>>>
>>> When I find a moment I'll have look at what is slowing this down.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Peter.
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Peter W. Draper
>>>> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, David Nutter wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Whilst trying to get my head round the scuba2 mapmaker, I found that
>>>>>> the _res file created by the DIMM locks up gaia.
>>>>>> I've tried this with some jupiter maps from 20090107, both the 00007
>>>>>> and 00006 file-sets.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The command I'm running is the following
>>>>>> makemap 's4d20090107_00007_000?' jupiter 3 method=iterate
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> config=\"^/star/share/smurf/dimmconfig.lis,exportndf=\(com,ast,flt,res,noi,qua\)
>>>>>> \"
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The _res file displays fine using linplot, but if I open it in gaia
>>>>>> and click the mouse on one of the detectors, processor use goes to
>>>>>> 100% and stays there for about 5 mins, and gaia stops responding.
>>>>>> 5 mins later, a trace appears, but any attempt to do anything
>>>>>> (including moving one of the dialog windows) send gaia back to it's 5
>>>>>> mins of thinking.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Removing the "noi,qua" from the makemap command, causes makemap to
>>>>>> produce a residuals file that has no variance component, and this file
>>>>>> views fine in gaia, which half solves the problem (unless you're
>>>>>> interested in seeing the variance).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I don't know if this is a Gaia issue or a makemap issue, or if I'm
>>>>>> just doing something silly, or residuals files are realy that
>>>>>> complicated..
>>>>>> This is all running nanahope on SL5.2 64-bit.
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi Dave,
>>>>>
>>>>> tried this all out on the 00006 files and when I pop up the _rel file
>>>>> into
>>>>> GAIA I don't see any problems, the spectral extraction window just
>>>>> opens
>>>>> up
>>>>> and displays various timeseries (I'm also using the 64-bit nanahope
>>>>> release).
>>>>>
>>>>> So could you make your file available, so I can check that?
>>>>>
>>>>> Also can someone at JAC try this out under Centos (was the nanahope
>>>>> build
>>>>> under 5.3 or 5.2?).
>>>>>
>>>>> Peter.
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Peter W. Draper, http://astro.dur.ac.uk/~pdraper
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Peter W. Draper, http://astro.dur.ac.uk/~pdraper
>>>
>>
>
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> Peter W. Draper, http://astro.dur.ac.uk/~pdraper
>