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Originally Posted by TheDecepticon
Howdy. 
I use MaxIm for my astro stuff, including plate solving with PinPoint LE. I down loaded the Guide Star Catalouge 1.1 to use with it, works great, except for the annoying little warning message I always get that says I would be better off using the corrected catalouge rather than the one I have. Of course, I would try the USNO2 catalouge, but that is a 6Gb download. 
Is there a way to turn off this annoying little warning, as it is a great interrupter when I am tyring to use PinPoint for Astrometric alignment in the Combine dialouge applet as I have to sit there and click the warning off for each sub frame.  |
Truth be told, the message you are receiving shouldn't be dismissed. For the most part the standard GSC1.1 will work fine. Especially if all you are doing is using it to for astrometic image alignment. However, in the real world, there is really no reason why you shouldn't run the corrected version of GSC1.1 aka GSC-ACT. This will at least remove the warning you receive.
I'm going to assume you got your GSC1.1 from a reputable source and its working well. Keeping the directory structure is key. You have indicated that astrometic aligns do work, so we're on the right path.
There are two options;
You can download the corrected version in full here -
ftp://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/pub/cats/I/255/
-or-
Pinpoint can make corrections on the fly to the original GSC1.1 if the GSC_ACT.DAT file is located in the same directory as Pinpoint.dll. What I am however uncertain of is how well this will work with Pinpoint LE. I use the full version of Pinpoint which actually comes with the correction .DAT file. The DAT file if you don't already have it can be downloaded here -
http://home.gwi.net/~pluto/gsc_act.zip
Let me know how you get on.