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--- information_for_astronomers:user_guide:obsinp [2013/08/27 12:40]
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+++ information_for_astronomers:user_guide:obsinp [2014/01/20 09:13]
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 **Figure 2:** The Control screen allows to send commands directly to the telescope control software (take care! you have to know what you do). At the bottom the active queue can be selected.
-The Startup widget is the first screen that appears when you call OBSINP and should be filled with the information that is requested: Operator, Observer, Project-Code, and the working directory. The observers directory will contain the folders for his own catalogues and scripts. The directories are called Catalogues and Scripts and will be created by the system if not already existing. \\  The new catalogue format is somewhat cryptic and therefore it is recommended to just convert your old VAX-catalogues using catalog.py. A new catalogue preparation tool is planed. The preparation of scripts is described later in the Pointing and Spectroscopy sections.
+The Startup widget is the first screen that appears when you call OBSINP and should be filled with the information that is requested: Operator, Observer, Project-Code, and the working directory. The observers directory will contain the folders for his own catalogues and scripts. The directories are called Catalogues and Scripts and will be created by the system if not already existing. \\
+The preparation of scripts is described later in the Pointing and Spectroscopy sections.
+==== Catalogs ====
+With the new Obsinp observing software, source catalog files are stored in the SDB (structured data base) format. This format is somewhat less easy
+to understand as the (old) VAX source catalogs. However, there exists a script ''catalog.py'', which can be used to convert files having the old VAX format to the new Obsinp format. Using
+<code>catalog.py sources.cat</code>
+on the **be4** computer will create a file ''sources.sdb''. If you place it into ''your_directory_on_be4/Catalogues'' it will be found automatically by Obsinp (if you choose the correct startup directory).
+For the preparation of your observations we recommend to prepare a catalog in the [[:vax_catalog|VAX format]] and convert it into the new format afterwards.
+Alternatively, you might use our catalog tool for creating and editing catalogs, see [[:information_for_astronomers:user_guide:pycatalog]].
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