[vsnet-chat 7658] kepler and corot data access for those who want to know their stars

[J K]

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/guide-user/message/7662

I'll up the latest TDF versions to wikisend for these, as the online eclipse atlas subtely changed it's url structure a little while ago (and villanova seems to be currently offline, probably maintenance during the hols or something, so I can't check if that email's old url is out of date).

It'll be two TDFs, one for as many Kepler objects as I could bleed out of the not entirely friendly MAST server interface, and one of the published eclipsers, which of course will be common to both datasets.  Link outs from the Kepler data not only lead to a mast interface where you can not only view lightcurves and even identify the star via coordinates, but can also link to lightcurve data download points so you can analyse the damn things yourself!

CoRoT stuff is kind of mentioned here

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/guide-user/message/7613

as is other Kepler info.

That has evolved too, so I supposed I ought to include the latest form of that bled out data, how to access the lightcurves via outlinking etc.

Use this wikisend zip file :-

http://wikisend.com/download/605720/data.zip

unzip the contents to your Guide directory, and outlinking to data from graphical plots occurs via more info.  Purple circles for the objects, purple cross for the Kepler eclipsers.

As well as being TDFs, the files are in ascii and carry the tabular data so you can cut those bits out with an ascii editor and use them for import to your software planeteria of choice, as most said have this function.  Hyperoutlinking is your own problem in that case, though.

But you get all the access to data you need, and all the identification you need, plus also pointers to stuff that has been published already, as well as online access to one of the catalogues of published variables, whereas planetorghunter forgot to do this on its recent launch.

Whilst I'm at it, I'll stick in the AAVSO VSX TDF, just regularly download this :-

ftp://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/pub/cats/B/vsx/vsx.dat.gz

and copy it into your Guide directory to have updated versions.  More Info outlinks to the online AAVSO VSX summary sheets.  AAVSO VSX is a compilation of compilations, it's data are only as good as their sources, and not necessarily definitive, incidentally.

The full zip file at wikisend is a 4 Mb download.

J


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