NMW transient search results

This analysis is done by the script util/transients/transient_factory_test31.sh /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ

The list of candidates will appear below. Please manually reload the page every few minutes untill the 'Processing complete' message appears.

Processing fields Psc-04-Q1b1x1

Date (UTC) JD(UTC) mag. R.A. & Dec.(J2000) X & Y (pix) Image
Discovery image 1   2026 10 11.36991    2461324.86991    8.51    00:07:39.52 +08:43:37.3   3764 1476   /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits
Discovery image 2   2026 10 11.37054    2461324.87054    8.77    00:07:39.50 +08:43:37.6   3759 1470   /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits
Mean magnitude and position on the discovery images: 
                   2026 10 11.3702  2461324.8702   8.64  00:07:39.51 +08:43:37.4
104.93092 -52.60783 galactic  Psc  Second-epoch detections are separated by 0.4" and 7.6 pix   
The object was not found in VSX
The object was not found in ASASSN-V
The object was found in astcheck.  
192 Nausikaa                 1      0       1   8.7    -0   -0
Forced photometry on wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits at 00:07:39.51 +08:43:37.4:  15.74 +/- 99.00  upperlimit
Forced photometry on wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits at 00:07:39.51 +08:43:37.4:  15.77 +/- 99.00  upperlimit
Check this position in TNS.                         Manually check the ASAS-SN list of transients!
Search this object in SIMBAD.
Search this object in VizieR catalogs.  WISE atlas  Aladin Lite  SNAD ZTF viewer
Online MPChecker may fail to identify bright comets! Please manually check the Seiichi Yoshida's and Gideon van Buitenen's pages.

Full images (clouds? trees? ice on chip?)   Psc-04-Q1b1x1 field processing log
Platesolve and blink FITS with VaST+ds9 VaST command line Re-run transient search script Stub MPC report (for online MPChecker) Stub TOCP report Stub variable star reports

Date (UTC) JD(UTC) mag. R.A. & Dec.(J2000) X & Y (pix) Image
Discovery image 1   2026 10 11.36991    2461324.86991    13.30    00:09:28.79 +06:44:24.4   3414 2653   /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits
Discovery image 2   2026 10 11.37054    2461324.87054    13.69    00:09:28.72 +06:44:23.8   3409 2648   /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits
Mean magnitude and position on the discovery images: 
                   2026 10 11.3702  2461324.8702  13.49  00:09:28.75 +06:44:24.1
104.72605 -54.64178 galactic  Psc  Second-epoch detections are separated by 1.1" and 7.4 pix   
The object was not found in VSX
The object was not found in ASASSN-V
The object was found in astcheck.  
577 Rhea                    -0     -1       1  13.6    -0   -0
Forced photometry on wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits at 00:09:28.75 +06:44:24.1:  15.94 +/- 99.00  upperlimit
Forced photometry on wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits at 00:09:28.75 +06:44:24.1:  15.94 +/- 99.00  upperlimit
Check this position in TNS.                         Manually check the ASAS-SN list of transients!
Search this object in SIMBAD.
Search this object in VizieR catalogs.  WISE atlas  Aladin Lite  SNAD ZTF viewer
Online MPChecker may fail to identify bright comets! Please manually check the Seiichi Yoshida's and Gideon van Buitenen's pages.

Full images (clouds? trees? ice on chip?)   Psc-04-Q1b1x1 field processing log
Platesolve and blink FITS with VaST+ds9 VaST command line Re-run transient search script Stub MPC report (for online MPChecker) Stub TOCP report Stub variable star reports

Date (UTC) JD(UTC) mag. R.A. & Dec.(J2000) X & Y (pix) Image
Discovery image 1   2026 10 11.36991    2461324.86991    13.77    23:52:52.07 +08:39:50.7   5960 1650   /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits
Discovery image 2   2026 10 11.37054    2461324.87054    13.68    23:52:52.03 +08:39:50.0   5954 1645   /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits
Mean magnitude and position on the discovery images: 
                   2026 10 11.3702  2461324.8702  13.72  23:52:52.05 +08:39:50.3
 99.26555 -51.49626 galactic  Peg  Second-epoch detections are separated by 0.9" and 7.4 pix   
The object was not found in VSX
The object was not found in ASASSN-V
The object was found in astcheck.  
701 Oriola                   0      0       0  13.9     0    0
Forced photometry on wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits at 23:52:52.05 +08:39:50.3:  15.82 +/- 99.00  upperlimit
Forced photometry on wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits at 23:52:52.05 +08:39:50.3:  15.89 +/- 99.00  upperlimit
Check this position in TNS.                         Manually check the ASAS-SN list of transients!
Search this object in SIMBAD.
Search this object in VizieR catalogs.  WISE atlas  Aladin Lite  SNAD ZTF viewer
Online MPChecker may fail to identify bright comets! Please manually check the Seiichi Yoshida's and Gideon van Buitenen's pages.

Full images (clouds? trees? ice on chip?)   Psc-04-Q1b1x1 field processing log
Platesolve and blink FITS with VaST+ds9 VaST command line Re-run transient search script Stub MPC report (for online MPChecker) Stub TOCP report Stub variable star reports

Processing complete!

Total number of candidates identified: 3

FITS images used in this processing run:

Field Psc-04-Q1b1x1 reference image: Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits
Field Psc-04-Q1b1x1 reference image: Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits
Field Psc-04-Q1b1x1 second-epoch image: Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits
Field Psc-04-Q1b1x1 second-epoch image: Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits

Processing log:

Filtering log:

######## Processing parameters ########
AAVSO_COMMENT_STRING= NMW-TexasTech Camera-1 135mm f/2.2 telephoto lens + QHY600M CMOS
ASTCHECK_ASTEROID_SEARCH_RADIUS_ARCSEC= 
BAD_REGION_FILE= /var/www/nmw_calibration/TTUQ1b1x1/TTUQ1_bad_region.lst
CAMERA_SETTINGS= TTUQ1b1x1
CHECK_POINTING_ACCURACY= yes
DARK_FRAMES_DIR_OR_FILE= /var/www/nmw_calibration/TTUQ1b1x1/darks
EXCLUSION_LIST= ../exclusion_list_TTUQ1.txt
FILTER_BAD_IMG__MAX_APERTURE_STAR_SIZE_PIX= 12.5
FILTER_BAD_IMG__MAX_ELONGATION_AminusB_PIX= 0.55
FILTER_BAD_IMG__MIN_APERTURE_STAR_SIZE_PIX= 2.0
FILTER_BRIGHT_MAG_CUTOFF_TRANSIENT_SEARCH= -5
FILTER_FAINT_MAG_CUTOFF_TRANSIENT_SEARCH= 15.5
FLAT_FIELD_DIR_OR_FILE= /var/www/nmw_calibration/TTUQ1b1x1/flats
FRAME_EDGE_OFFSET_PIX= 100
GAIA_BAND_FOR_CATALOGED_SOURCE_CHECK= 
MAX_NEW_TO_REF_MEAN_IMG_VALUE_RATIO= 100
DISABLE_NEW_TO_REF_MEAN_IMG_RATIO_CHECK= yes
MAX_NEW_IMG_MEAN_VALUE= 25000
MAX_SD_RATIO_OF_SECOND_EPOCH_IMGS= 0.18
MAX_SD_RATIO_OF_SECOND_EPOCH_IMGS_SOFT_LIMIT= 0.12
MPC_CODE= V36
NMW_CALIBRATION= /var/www/nmw_calibration
NUMBER_OF_DETECTED_TRANSIENTS_BEFORE_FILTERING_HARD_LIMIT= 10000
NUMBER_OF_DETECTED_TRANSIENTS_BEFORE_FILTERING_SOFT_LIMIT= 8000
OMP_NUM_THREADS= 3
ONLINE_MPCHECKER_BUTTON_ASTEROID_SEARCH_RADIUS_ARCMIN= 
PHOTOMETRIC_CALIBRATION= 
REQUIRE_PIX_SHIFT_BETWEEN_IMAGES_FOR_TRANSIENT_CANDIDATES= yes
SEXTRACTOR_CONFIG_BRIGHTSTARPASS= default.sex.telephoto_lens_onlybrightstars_v1
SEXTRACTOR_CONFIG_FILES= default.sex.telephoto_lens_onlybrightstars_v1 default.sex.telephoto_lens_vSTL
SEXTRACTOR_CONFIG_FILES_HIGH_PRIORITY_EXTRA= default.sex.telephoto_lens_vTTU
HIGH_PRIORITY_FIELDS= Sco6 Oph-08-Q1b1x1 Oph-08-Q2b1x1 Sco-04-Q1b1x1 Sco-04-Q2b1x1 Sgr-04-Q1b1x1 Sgr-04-Q2b1x1 242
STARMATCH_RADIUS_PIX= 5
SYSREM_ITERATIONS= 0
TELESCOP= 
TELESCOP_NAME_KNOWN_TO_VaST_FOR_FOV_DETERMINATION= 
UCAC5_PLATESOLVE_ITERATIONS= 2
FPACK_FULLY_CALIBRATED_IMAGE= no
#######################################
HOSTNAME= tau
USER= 
HOME= 
#######################################
SExtractor catalog cache: enabled, directory /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/vast_sextractor_cache
Reference image directory is set to /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/reference_imgs
VIZIER_SITE=vizier.cds.unistra.fr
GAIA_DR2_CLIENT=vizquery (lib/vizquery -> VizieR vizier.cds.unistra.fr)
INFO: MAKE_PNG_PLOTS is set to yes
FITS_FILE_EXT=fits
CALIBRATION_STATUS_PREFIX=
Fields in the data directory: 
Psc-04-Q1b1x1
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########### Starting Psc-04-Q1b1x1 ###########
Processing Psc-04-Q1b1x1
server tau has sufficient free disk space available: 552259 MB at /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir
server tau has sufficient free disk space available: 552259 MB at .
Checking input images (2 new)
REFERENCE_EPOCH__FIRST_IMAGE= /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/reference_imgs/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits
REFERENCE_EPOCH__SECOND_IMAGE= /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/reference_imgs/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits
Small preview (one of the new images): 
Large previews of the second-epoch (new) images:
MAKE_PNG_PLOTS=yes
renamed 'Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.png' -> 'transient_report/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits_preview.png'
Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits

renamed 'Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.png' -> 'transient_report/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits_preview.png'
Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits


Read-check the input FITS images... read-check OK Blank image check the input FITS images... blank-image-check OK Read date check the input FITS images... read-date-check OK Mean value check the input FITS images... OK, at least two new images have mean values below the threshold. ---------------------------------------------- INFO: REFERENCE_EPOCH__FIRST_IMAGE_MEAN_VALUE= 529.7143 INFO: REFERENCE_EPOCH__FIRST_IMAGE_SD= 458.2824 INFO: SECOND_EPOCH__FIRST_IMAGE_MEAN_VALUE= 1631.6789 INFO: SECOND_EPOCH__FIRST_IMAGE_SD= 448.7859 INFO: SECOND_EPOCH__SECOND_IMAGE_MEAN_VALUE= 1646.2872 INFO: SECOND_EPOCH__SECOND_IMAGE_SD= 430.3015 ---------------------------------------------- INFO: ref_to_second_epoch_img_mean_ratio= 3.0803 INFO: SECOND_EPOCH__SD_ratio= 0.043 INFO: the new-to-reference mean image value ratio check is disabled (DISABLE_NEW_TO_REF_MEAN_IMG_RATIO_CHECK=yes) - expected with a background-subtracted reference image ---------------------------------------------- Calibration settings: DARK_FRAMES_DIR_OR_FILE=/var/www/nmw_calibration/TTUQ1b1x1/darks FLAT_FIELD_DIR_OR_FILE=/var/www/nmw_calibration/TTUQ1b1x1/flats EXPTIME = 20.0 / [s] Exposure duration SET-TEMP= 0.0 / [degC] CCD temperature setpoint CCD-TEMP= -0.0 / [degC] CCD temperature FOCTEMP = 21.2900009155273 / [degC] Focuser temperature AMBTEMP = 19.2 / [degC] Ambient air temperature Exploring image header: /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits CCD-TEMP= -0.000000 for /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits SET-TEMP= 0.000000 for /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits Header: 74 keys total, 33 keys left Record 0: "" status=0 Record 1: "SIMPLE = T / C# FITS" status=0 Record 2: "BITPIX = 16" status=0 Record 3: "NAXIS = 2 / Dimensionality" status=0 Record 4: "NAXIS1 = 9576" status=0 Record 5: "NAXIS2 = 6388" status=0 Record 6: "BZERO = 32768" 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Reading image /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits 9576 6388 16 bitpix SET-TEMP= 0.000000 for /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits SET-TEMP= 0.000000 for /var/www/nmw_calibration/TTUQ1b1x1/darks/mdark_TTUQ1b1x1_0C_20s_2026-08-12_multinight.fit CCD-TEMP= -0.000000 for /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits CCD-TEMP= -0.000000 for /var/www/nmw_calibration/TTUQ1b1x1/darks/mdark_TTUQ1b1x1_0C_20s_2026-08-12_multinight.fit Reading dark frame /var/www/nmw_calibration/TTUQ1b1x1/darks/mdark_TTUQ1b1x1_0C_20s_2026-08-12_multinight.fit 9576 6388 16 bitpix Dark frame is subtracted, output is written to /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/d_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits :) Spent 0.650574 seconds renamed 'mdark_TTUQ1b1x1_0C_20s_2026-08-12_multinight.png' -> 'transient_report/dark.png' try_to_calibrate_the_input_frame(): selected flat field /var/www/nmw_calibration/TTUQ1b1x1/flats/mff_TTUQ1b1x1_2026-08-12_multinight.fit from directory /var/www/nmw_calibration/TTUQ1b1x1/flats MegaDivider v7 Reading image /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/d_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits 9576 6388 16 bitpix Reading flat /var/www/nmw_calibration/TTUQ1b1x1/flats/mff_TTUQ1b1x1_2026-08-12_multinight.fit 9576 6388 16 bitpix Avarage count on flat field image: 36313.440328 Minimal real count (from overscan): 5 Output is written to /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits :) No overscan detected - all values seem high! (left_median=23343.0, right_median=27331.5) renamed 'mff_TTUQ1b1x1_2026-08-12_multinight.png' -> 'transient_report/flat.png' Using calibrated image CALIBRATED_SECOND_EPOCH__FIRST_IMAGE=/data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits EXPTIME = 20.0 / [s] Exposure duration SET-TEMP= 0.0 / [degC] CCD temperature setpoint CCD-TEMP= -0.0 / [degC] CCD temperature FOCTEMP = 20.2900009155273 / [degC] Focuser temperature AMBTEMP = 19.2 / [degC] Ambient air temperature Exploring image header: /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits CCD-TEMP= -0.000000 for /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits SET-TEMP= 0.000000 for /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits Header: 74 keys total, 33 keys left Record 0: "" status=0 Record 1: "SIMPLE = T / C# FITS" status=0 Record 2: "BITPIX = 16" status=0 Record 3: "NAXIS = 2 / Dimensionality" status=0 Record 4: "NAXIS1 = 9576" status=0 Record 5: "NAXIS2 = 6388" status=0 Record 6: "BZERO = 32768" status=0 Record 7: "EXTEND = T / Extensions are permitted" status=0 Record 8: "IMAGETYP= 'LIGHT' / Type of exposure" status=0 Record 9: "EXPOSURE= 20.0 / [s] Exposure duration" status=0 Record 10: "EXPTIME = 20.0 / [s] Exposure duration" status=0 Record 11: "DATE-LOC= '2026-10-11T03:53:24.3746239' / Time of observation (local)" status=0 Record 12: "DATE-OBS= '2026-10-11T08:53:24.3746239' / Time of observation (UTC)" status=0 Record 13: "MJD-OBS = 61324.3704209952 / Modified Julian Date of observation" status=0 Record 14: "DATE-AVG= 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status=0 Record 73: "QHY_LEM = T / isLongExposureMode" status=0 Record 74: "QHY_OFF0= 3767.777 / [us] RollingShutterEndOffset row 0" status=0 Allocating memory for image, dark and result arrays... Reading image /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits 9576 6388 16 bitpix SET-TEMP= 0.000000 for /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits SET-TEMP= 0.000000 for /var/www/nmw_calibration/TTUQ1b1x1/darks/mdark_TTUQ1b1x1_0C_20s_2026-08-12_multinight.fit CCD-TEMP= -0.000000 for /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits CCD-TEMP= -0.000000 for /var/www/nmw_calibration/TTUQ1b1x1/darks/mdark_TTUQ1b1x1_0C_20s_2026-08-12_multinight.fit Reading dark frame /var/www/nmw_calibration/TTUQ1b1x1/darks/mdark_TTUQ1b1x1_0C_20s_2026-08-12_multinight.fit 9576 6388 16 bitpix Dark frame is subtracted, output is written to /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/d_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits :) Spent 0.662268 seconds renamed 'mdark_TTUQ1b1x1_0C_20s_2026-08-12_multinight.png' -> 'transient_report/dark.png' try_to_calibrate_the_input_frame(): selected flat field /var/www/nmw_calibration/TTUQ1b1x1/flats/mff_TTUQ1b1x1_2026-08-12_multinight.fit from directory /var/www/nmw_calibration/TTUQ1b1x1/flats MegaDivider v7 Reading image /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/d_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits 9576 6388 16 bitpix Reading flat /var/www/nmw_calibration/TTUQ1b1x1/flats/mff_TTUQ1b1x1_2026-08-12_multinight.fit 9576 6388 16 bitpix Avarage count on flat field image: 36313.440328 Minimal real count (from overscan): 5 Output is written to /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits :) No overscan detected - all values seem high! (left_median=23343.0, right_median=27331.5) renamed 'mff_TTUQ1b1x1_2026-08-12_multinight.png' -> 'transient_report/flat.png' Using calibrated image CALIBRATED_SECOND_EPOCH__SECOND_IMAGE=/data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits Dark frame used to calibrate the second-epoch images:

Flat field used to calibrate the second-epoch images:

after the calibration attempt: SECOND_EPOCH__FIRST_IMAGE=/data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits SECOND_EPOCH__SECOND_IMAGE=/data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits Previews of the CALIBRATED second-epoch images:

fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits


fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits


Updating neverexclude_list.txt '/var/www/nmw_calibration/neverexclude_list.txt' -> './neverexclude_list.txt' Choosing bad regions list '/var/www/nmw_calibration/TTUQ1b1x1/TTUQ1_bad_region.lst' -> 'bad_region.lst' wait *------ default.sex.telephoto_lens_onlybrightstars_v1 ------* 'default.sex.telephoto_lens_onlybrightstars_v1' -> 'default.sex' Starting VaST with default.sex.telephoto_lens_onlybrightstars_v1 ./vast --noflagimage --starmatchraius 5 --matchstarnumber 500 --selectbestaperture --sysrem 0 --type 4 --maxsextractorflag 99 --UTC --nofind --nojdkeyword /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/reference_imgs/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/reference_imgs/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits SExtractor catalog cache: saved Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits.cat to cache SExtractor catalog cache: saved Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits.cat to cache VaST run complete with default.sex.telephoto_lens_onlybrightstars_v1 The four input images were /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/reference_imgs/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/reference_imgs/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits Checking WCS cache directory local_wcs_cache Checking WCS cache directory /mnt/usb/NMW_NG/solved_reference_images Checking WCS cache directory /home/NMW_web_upload/solved_reference_images Checking WCS cache directory /dataX/kirx/NMW_NG_rt3_autumn2019/solved_reference_images The reference JD(UT) for computing planet and comet positions: 2461324.86991334 Re-using ../asassn_transients_list.txt '../asassn_transients_list.txt' -> 'asassn_transients_list.txt' Re-using ../tocp_transients_list.txt '../tocp_transients_list.txt' -> 'tocp_transients_list.txt' Re-using ../tns_transients_list.txt '../tns_transients_list.txt' -> 'tns_transients_list.txt' Plate-solving the images wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits exists and is non-empty wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits exists and is non-empty wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits exists and is non-empty wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits exists and is non-empty ################################### # fov_of_wcs_calibrated_image.sh output for wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits (1st reference image) verification OK: wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits Image size: 937.3'x624.3' 15.6(deg)x10.4(deg) 9576x6388 pix Image scale: 5.87"/pix along the X axis and 5.86"/pix along the Y axis Image center: 23:59:58.228 +05:59:38.82 J2000 4789.000 3195.000 ################################### The image scale is 5.87"/pix, setting the soft and hard astrometric limits for filtering second-epoch detections: 5.9" and 8.8" ################################### # fov_of_wcs_calibrated_image.sh output for wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits (1st new image) verification OK: wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits Image size: 941.5'x626.8' 15.7(deg)x10.4(deg) 9576x6388 pix Image scale: 5.90"/pix along the X axis and 5.89"/pix along the Y axis Image center: 00:00:04.336 +05:59:13.98 J2000 4789.000 3195.000 ################################### ################################### # Check the image center offset between the reference and the first second-epoch image (pointing accuracy) Reference image center 23:59:58.228 +05:59:38.82 Second-epoch image center 00:00:04.336 +05:59:13.98 Angular distance between the image centers 0.0262 deg. Soft limit: 0.50 deg. Hard limit: 1.00 deg. ################################### ################################### # fov_of_wcs_calibrated_image.sh output for wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits (2nd new image) verification OK: wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits Image size: 941.5'x626.8' 15.7(deg)x10.4(deg) 9576x6388 pix Image scale: 5.90"/pix along the X axis and 5.89"/pix along the Y axis Image center: 00:00:01.926 +05:58:46.27 J2000 4789.000 3195.000 ################################### ################################### # Check the image center offset between the reference and the second second-epoch image (pointing accuracy) Reference image center 23:59:58.228 +05:59:38.82 Second-epoch image center 00:00:01.926 +05:58:46.27 Angular distance between the image centers 0.0212 deg. ################################### ################################### # Check the image center offset between the first and the second second-epoch image (shift should be applied between the second-epoch images) Second-epoch first image center 00:00:04.336 +05:59:13.98 Second-epoch second image center 00:00:01.926 +05:58:46.27 Angular distance between the image centers 0.01261 deg. ################################### Running solve_plate_with_UCAC5... Preparing for a parallel run Running util/solve_plate_with_UCAC5 --no_photometric_catalog --iterations 2 /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/reference_imgs/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits &> /tmp/tmp.bDaqMEZhZR Parallel run for /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/reference_imgs/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits Running util/solve_plate_with_UCAC5 --no_photometric_catalog --iterations 2 /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/reference_imgs/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits &> /tmp/tmp.SHUL7v8jR6 Parallel run for /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/reference_imgs/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits Running util/solve_plate_with_UCAC5 --no_photometric_catalog --iterations 2 /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits &> /tmp/tmp.KmupH6UN71 Parallel run for /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits Running util/solve_plate_with_UCAC5 --no_photometric_catalog --iterations 2 /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits &> /tmp/tmp.JUBXbpTsmJ Parallel run for /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits Calibrating the magnitude scale Found non-empty wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits ____ Start of magnitude calibration ____ PHOTOMETRIC_CALIBRATION=TYCHO2_V Calibrating the magnitude scale with Tycho-2 stars util/transients/transient_factory_test31.sh is checking for the presence of non-empty wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits and wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits.wcscat wait (drain background util/solve_plate_with_UCAC5 jobs before Tycho-2 calibration -- avoids wcs_.fits write race) Tycho-2 catalog is found at lib/catalogs/tycho2 Tycho-2 catalog and the derived bright star exclusion list are ready Checking for the presence of non-empty wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits and wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits.wcscat Found non-empty wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits and wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits.wcscat The reference image (wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits) and catalog (wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits.wcscat) found 'wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits.wcscat' -> 'wcsmag.cat' The field straddles RA=0: the RA boundaries wrap around (min > max) Read 6233 stars from the SExtractor catalog wcsmag.cat Detected star coordinate range: RA 352.0271 to 7.9045 deg, Dec +0.6902 to +11.2647 deg Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.00 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.01 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.02 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.03 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.04 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.05 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.06 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.07 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.08 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.09 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.10 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.11 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.12 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.13 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.14 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.15 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.16 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.17 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.18 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.19 Tycho-2 catalog search boundaries: RA 352.0271 to 7.9045 deg, Dec 0.6902 to 11.2647 deg Loaded 4566 Tycho-2 stars within the image boundaries (VT and BT non-zero). Relation between the catalog and instrumental magnitudes is written to calib.txt Stars used for magnitude calibration (good matches): 3722 out of 3826 total matches. Matched with Tycho-2 3826 out of 6233 detected stars. The calibration function type and coefficients are written to calib.txt_param util/calibrate_magnitude_scale 0.000000 1.000000 22.662650 a=0.000000 b=1.000000 c=22.662650 From vast_summary.log: estimated ref. image limiting mag.: -7.31 Updating vast_summary.log: Estimated ref. image limiting mag.: 15.35 Updated vast_limiting_magnitude.log with calibrated magnitudes Working... Please, PLEASE, be patient!!! All lightcurves processed! =) Estimated ref. image limiting mag.: 15.35
Lightcurve magnitude calibration plot:

Preparing per-reference-image forced-photometry calibration (method=tycho2 band=V) The field straddles RA=0: the RA boundaries wrap around (min > max) Read 6233 stars from the SExtractor catalog wcsmag.cat Detected star coordinate range: RA 352.0271 to 7.9045 deg, Dec +0.6902 to +11.2647 deg Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.00 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.01 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.02 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.03 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.04 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.05 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.06 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.07 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.08 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.09 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.10 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.11 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.12 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.13 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.14 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.15 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.16 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.17 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.18 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.19 Tycho-2 catalog search boundaries: RA 352.0271 to 7.9045 deg, Dec 0.6902 to 11.2647 deg Loaded 4566 Tycho-2 stars within the image boundaries (VT and BT non-zero). Relation between the catalog and instrumental magnitudes is written to calib.txt Stars used for magnitude calibration (good matches): 3722 out of 3826 total matches. Matched with Tycho-2 3826 out of 6233 detected stars. util/calibrate_single_image_with_tycho2.sh: calibrated wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits via Tycho-2
Single-image forced-photometry magnitude calibration plot for wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits:

Forced-photometry filter: reusing the VaST-run aperture from image00001.cat.aperture for wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits Forced-photometry filter: calibrated wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits -> calib.txt_param_ref_wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits (aperture=6.4) The field straddles RA=0: the RA boundaries wrap around (min > max) Read 6318 stars from the SExtractor catalog wcsmag.cat Detected star coordinate range: RA 351.8996 to 8.2591 deg, Dec +0.3478 to +11.6137 deg Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.00 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.01 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.02 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.03 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.04 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.05 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.06 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.07 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.08 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.09 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.10 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.11 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.12 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.13 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.14 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.15 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.16 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.17 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.18 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.19 Tycho-2 catalog search boundaries: RA 351.8996 to 8.2591 deg, Dec 0.3478 to 11.6137 deg Loaded 4984 Tycho-2 stars within the image boundaries (VT and BT non-zero). Relation between the catalog and instrumental magnitudes is written to calib.txt Stars used for magnitude calibration (good matches): 3763 out of 3845 total matches. Matched with Tycho-2 3845 out of 6318 detected stars. util/calibrate_single_image_with_tycho2.sh: calibrated wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits via Tycho-2
Single-image forced-photometry magnitude calibration plot for wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits:

Forced-photometry filter: reusing the VaST-run aperture from image00002.cat.aperture for wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits Forced-photometry filter: calibrated wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits -> calib.txt_param_ref_wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits (aperture=6.2) ____ End of magnitude calibration ____ Applying consolidated magnitude filters... Preparing the exclusion lists for this field Done with filtering Found 2 candidate transients before the final filtering. (Hard limit: 10000) Median FWHM seeing for isolated stars: 2.3 pix Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits 2.4 pix Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits 2.2 pix fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits 2.1 pix fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits Limiting magnitude estimates: 15.3 mag. Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits 15.4 mag. Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits 14.2 mag. fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits 14.0 mag. fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits All-image limiting magnitude estimate: 14.0 (SNR ) 10.9 (80% of stars) with default.sex.telephoto_lens_onlybrightstars_v1 The first estimate is the magnitude of a star detected with a signal-to-noise ratio of following Karpov (2025, Acta Polytechnica, 65, 50). This value should be representative of the faintest stars clearly visible in the image. The brighter of the limiting magnitude estimates for the two second-epoch images is reported here. The second estimate is the 80th percentile of the magnitude distribution of stars detected on all four images. This value is representative of the faintest object that may enter the candidate transients list. The hard cut-off for the candidate transients is 15.5 mag. Waiting for UCAC5 plate solver wait cp: cannot create regular file 'local_wcs_cache/': Not a directory ############ /tmp/tmp.bDaqMEZhZR (6) ############ Parsing command line arguments... WARNING from replace_file_with_symlink_if_filename_contains_white_spaces() the input file /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/reference_imgs/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits is already a symlink and we do not allow symlinks on symlinks The guess is based on the existing WCS header. Trying to blindly solve the plate (local solve-field or remote server)... /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir/vast_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/util/wcs_image_calibration.sh /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/reference_imgs/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits 570.0 Entering WCS image calibration mode. ORIGINAL_FITSFILE=/data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/reference_imgs/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits FITSFILE before on_the_fly=/data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/reference_imgs/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits WARNING from replace_file_with_symlink_if_filename_contains_white_spaces() the input file /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/reference_imgs/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits is already a symlink and we do not allow symlinks on symlinks FITSFILE after on_the_fly=/data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/reference_imgs/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits verification OK: /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/reference_imgs/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits It's a known telescope with plate solutions that are supposed to be good. The input image /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/reference_imgs/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits has a WCS header - will blindly trust it is good... '/data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/reference_imgs/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits' -> 'wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits' This WCS solution (astrometrynet) will be kept as is, not refit by util/solve_plate_with_UCAC5 FITSFILE after on_the_fly=/data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/reference_imgs/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits WCS_IMAGE_NAME=wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits WCS-calibrated image found: wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits Checking if the catalog wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits.wcscat corresponding to the image wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits alredy exist and is non-empty... Catalog wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits.wcscat corresponding to the image wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits found. The catalog is in the new format, as expected. The plate-solved (WCS-calibrated) image is saved to wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits util/solve_plate_with_UCAC5 is preparing to read a catalog corresponding to the image /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/reference_imgs/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits WCS catalog name: wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits.wcscat Excluding image region: 190.0 1039.0 192.0 1041.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 226.0 1548.0 228.0 1550.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 351.0 1875.0 353.0 1877.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 501.0 5912.0 503.0 5914.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 638.0 5545.0 640.0 5547.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 724.0 2731.0 726.0 2733.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 883.0 1376.0 885.0 1378.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 901.0 3972.0 903.0 3974.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 1151.0 918.0 1153.0 920.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 1157.0 135.0 1159.0 137.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding more image regions!.. (will not print them all) Excluded a total of 50 image regions (defined in bad_region.lst). SExtractor catalog parsing summary: zero_flux=0, no_flux_err=0, no_mag=0, no_mag_err=0, low_SNR=0, blended=357, bad_region=0, passed=6233 Got 6233 stars (including 5867 good ones) from the SExtractor catalog wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits.wcscat util/solve_plate_with_UCAC5 got 6233 stars from the SExtractor catalog Updated FoV from the plate-solved image: 937.3' Seting catalog search parameters based on the expected field of view 937.3 arcmin UCAC5 catalog search parameters: catalog_search_parameters->search_radius_deg= 0.013018 (46.9 arcsec) catalog_search_parameters->brightest_mag= 1.00 catalog_search_parameters->faintest_mag= 13.50 catalog_search_parameters->search_radius_second_step_deg 0.010414 (37.5 arcsec) ITERATION 01 -- talking to VizieR, this might be slow! UCAC5 search strategy: trying local copy first Found a local copy of UCAC5 RA wraps around 0/360 boundary: field RA 352.0271 through 0 to 7.9045, gap 7.9045 to 352.0271 UCAC5 local query limit 5000: matching up to 5000 detected stars, deepening the UCAC5 window to mag 15.50 Reading UCAC5 zone files... Searching UCAC5 zones 453 to 508 (Dec 0.7 to 11.3) Done reading UCAC5 zone files... Matched 4906 stars with the local copy of UCAC5. The local UCAC5 search seems to be a success Correcting the measured astrometric positions... Accuracy estimation diagnostic: 4897 matched stars entering correct_measured_positions(), 4897 with non-zero local correction accuracy Estimated accuracy of the plate solution: 0.32" Removing outliers... Correcting the measured astrometric positions... Accuracy estimation diagnostic: 4897 matched stars entering correct_measured_positions(), 6233 with non-zero local correction accuracy Estimated accuracy of the plate solution: 0.32" ITERATION 02 -- talking to VizieR, this might be slow! UCAC5 search strategy: trying local copy first Found a local copy of UCAC5 RA wraps around 0/360 boundary: field RA 352.0274 through 0 to 7.9045, gap 7.9045 to 352.0274 UCAC5 local query limit 5000: matching up to 5000 detected stars, deepening the UCAC5 window to mag 15.50 Reading UCAC5 zone files... Searching UCAC5 zones 453 to 508 (Dec 0.7 to 11.3) Done reading UCAC5 zone files... Matched 4906 stars with the local copy of UCAC5. The local UCAC5 search seems to be a success Accuracy estimation diagnostic: 4897 matched stars entering correct_measured_positions(), 6233 with non-zero local correction accuracy Estimated accuracy of the plate solution: 0.33" Accuracy estimation diagnostic: 4897 matched stars entering correct_measured_positions(), 6233 with non-zero local correction accuracy Estimated accuracy of the plate solution: 0.34" Excluding outliers - 4897 stars left (next iteration limit 5386) Stop iterations. The field is successfully solved and matched with the astrometric catalog! :) SIP_REFIT: util/identify.sh trusts the WCS of wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits (astrometrynet) - keeping it, no refit (set VAST_FORCE_SIP_REFIT=1 to refit anyway) WCS_QUALITY_DIAG: file=Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits N_match=4897 sigma_overall_arcsec=0.375 sigma_q1_arcsec=0.294 sigma_q2_arcsec=0.420 sigma_q3_arcsec=0.409 sigma_q4_arcsec=0.391 n_q1=1279 n_q2=1239 n_q3=1222 n_q4=1157 worst_quadrant_to_overall_ratio=1.120 The image catalog is written to wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits.wcscat.ucac5 The DS9 region file with the matched stars is written to wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits.wcscat.ds9.reg You may view it with the command: ds9 /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/reference_imgs/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits -region wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits.wcscat.ds9.reg The astrometric residuals vector field is written to wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits.wcscat.astrometric_residuals Option '-n' not using photometric catalogs, just stick with astrometry opt '-i': 2 is the maximum number of iterations FORCED_PHOTOMETRY_CALIBRATION_METHOD=tycho2 - not using remote photometric catalogs, just stick with astrometry ############ /tmp/tmp.SHUL7v8jR6 (6) ############ Parsing command line arguments... The guess is based on the existing WCS header. Trying to blindly solve the plate (local solve-field or remote server)... /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir/vast_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/util/wcs_image_calibration.sh /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/reference_imgs/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits 573.0 Entering WCS image calibration mode. ORIGINAL_FITSFILE=/data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/reference_imgs/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits FITSFILE before on_the_fly=/data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/reference_imgs/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits FITSFILE after on_the_fly=/data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/reference_imgs/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits verification OK: /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/reference_imgs/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits It's a known telescope with plate solutions that are supposed to be good. The input image /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/reference_imgs/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits has a WCS header - will blindly trust it is good... '/data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/reference_imgs/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits' -> 'wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits' This WCS solution (astrometrynet) will be kept as is, not refit by util/solve_plate_with_UCAC5 FITSFILE after on_the_fly=/data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/reference_imgs/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits WCS_IMAGE_NAME=wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits WCS-calibrated image found: wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits Checking if the catalog wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits.wcscat corresponding to the image wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits alredy exist and is non-empty... Catalog wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits.wcscat corresponding to the image wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits found. The catalog is in the new format, as expected. The plate-solved (WCS-calibrated) image is saved to wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits util/solve_plate_with_UCAC5 is preparing to read a catalog corresponding to the image /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/reference_imgs/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits WCS catalog name: wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits.wcscat Excluding image region: 190.0 1039.0 192.0 1041.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 226.0 1548.0 228.0 1550.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 351.0 1875.0 353.0 1877.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 501.0 5912.0 503.0 5914.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 638.0 5545.0 640.0 5547.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 724.0 2731.0 726.0 2733.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 883.0 1376.0 885.0 1378.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 901.0 3972.0 903.0 3974.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 1151.0 918.0 1153.0 920.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 1157.0 135.0 1159.0 137.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding more image regions!.. (will not print them all) Excluded a total of 50 image regions (defined in bad_region.lst). SExtractor catalog parsing summary: zero_flux=0, no_flux_err=0, no_mag=0, no_mag_err=0, low_SNR=0, blended=328, bad_region=0, passed=6318 Got 6318 stars (including 5982 good ones) from the SExtractor catalog wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits.wcscat util/solve_plate_with_UCAC5 got 6318 stars from the SExtractor catalog Updated FoV from the plate-solved image: 941.2' Seting catalog search parameters based on the expected field of view 941.2 arcmin UCAC5 catalog search parameters: catalog_search_parameters->search_radius_deg= 0.013072 (47.1 arcsec) catalog_search_parameters->brightest_mag= 1.00 catalog_search_parameters->faintest_mag= 13.50 catalog_search_parameters->search_radius_second_step_deg 0.010458 (37.6 arcsec) ITERATION 01 -- talking to VizieR, this might be slow! UCAC5 search strategy: trying local copy first Found a local copy of UCAC5 RA wraps around 0/360 boundary: field RA 351.8996 through 0 to 8.2591, gap 8.2591 to 351.8996 UCAC5 local query limit 5000: matching up to 5000 detected stars, deepening the UCAC5 window to mag 15.50 Reading UCAC5 zone files... Searching UCAC5 zones 451 to 510 (Dec 0.3 to 11.6) Done reading UCAC5 zone files... Matched 4903 stars with the local copy of UCAC5. The local UCAC5 search seems to be a success Correcting the measured astrometric positions... Accuracy estimation diagnostic: 4892 matched stars entering correct_measured_positions(), 4892 with non-zero local correction accuracy Estimated accuracy of the plate solution: 0.26" Removing outliers... Correcting the measured astrometric positions... Accuracy estimation diagnostic: 4892 matched stars entering correct_measured_positions(), 6318 with non-zero local correction accuracy Estimated accuracy of the plate solution: 0.26" ITERATION 02 -- talking to VizieR, this might be slow! UCAC5 search strategy: trying local copy first Found a local copy of UCAC5 RA wraps around 0/360 boundary: field RA 351.8998 through 0 to 8.2592, gap 8.2592 to 351.8998 UCAC5 local query limit 5000: matching up to 5000 detected stars, deepening the UCAC5 window to mag 15.50 Reading UCAC5 zone files... Searching UCAC5 zones 451 to 510 (Dec 0.3 to 11.6) Done reading UCAC5 zone files... Matched 4903 stars with the local copy of UCAC5. The local UCAC5 search seems to be a success Accuracy estimation diagnostic: 4892 matched stars entering correct_measured_positions(), 6318 with non-zero local correction accuracy Estimated accuracy of the plate solution: 0.28" Accuracy estimation diagnostic: 4892 matched stars entering correct_measured_positions(), 6318 with non-zero local correction accuracy Estimated accuracy of the plate solution: 0.28" Excluding outliers - 4892 stars left (next iteration limit 5381) Stop iterations. The field is successfully solved and matched with the astrometric catalog! :) SIP_REFIT: util/identify.sh trusts the WCS of wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits (astrometrynet) - keeping it, no refit (set VAST_FORCE_SIP_REFIT=1 to refit anyway) WCS_QUALITY_DIAG: file=Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits N_match=4892 sigma_overall_arcsec=0.303 sigma_q1_arcsec=0.271 sigma_q2_arcsec=0.326 sigma_q3_arcsec=0.300 sigma_q4_arcsec=0.304 n_q1=1292 n_q2=1193 n_q3=1278 n_q4=1129 worst_quadrant_to_overall_ratio=1.077 The image catalog is written to wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits.wcscat.ucac5 The DS9 region file with the matched stars is written to wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits.wcscat.ds9.reg You may view it with the command: ds9 /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/reference_imgs/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits -region wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits.wcscat.ds9.reg The astrometric residuals vector field is written to wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits.wcscat.astrometric_residuals Option '-n' not using photometric catalogs, just stick with astrometry opt '-i': 2 is the maximum number of iterations FORCED_PHOTOMETRY_CALIBRATION_METHOD=tycho2 - not using remote photometric catalogs, just stick with astrometry ############ /tmp/tmp.KmupH6UN71 (6) ############ Parsing command line arguments... The minor axis of the CCD chip should be 24.0 mm based on the derived pixel size of 3.8 um Internal estimated FoV 605.3' The guess is based on the FOCALLEN keyword. Trying to blindly solve the plate (local solve-field or remote server)... /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir/vast_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/util/wcs_image_calibration.sh /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits 605.0 Entering WCS image calibration mode. ORIGINAL_FITSFILE=/data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits FITSFILE before on_the_fly=/data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits FITSFILE after on_the_fly=/data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits verification OK: /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits It's not one of the telescopes that are know to produce images with good WCS solutions - will try to re-solve! FITSFILE after on_the_fly=/data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits WCS_IMAGE_NAME=wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits WCS-calibrated image found: wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits Checking if the catalog wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits.wcscat corresponding to the image wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits alredy exist and is non-empty... Catalog wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits.wcscat corresponding to the image wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits found. The catalog is in the new format, as expected. The plate-solved (WCS-calibrated) image is saved to wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits util/solve_plate_with_UCAC5 is preparing to read a catalog corresponding to the image /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits WCS catalog name: wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits.wcscat Excluding image region: 190.0 1039.0 192.0 1041.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 226.0 1548.0 228.0 1550.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 351.0 1875.0 353.0 1877.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 501.0 5912.0 503.0 5914.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 638.0 5545.0 640.0 5547.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 724.0 2731.0 726.0 2733.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 883.0 1376.0 885.0 1378.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 901.0 3972.0 903.0 3974.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 1151.0 918.0 1153.0 920.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 1157.0 135.0 1159.0 137.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding more image regions!.. (will not print them all) Excluded a total of 50 image regions (defined in bad_region.lst). SExtractor catalog parsing summary: zero_flux=0, no_flux_err=0, no_mag=0, no_mag_err=0, low_SNR=0, blended=150, bad_region=0, passed=2618 Got 2618 stars (including 2465 good ones) from the SExtractor catalog wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits.wcscat util/solve_plate_with_UCAC5 got 2618 stars from the SExtractor catalog Updated FoV from the plate-solved image: 941.5' Seting catalog search parameters based on the expected field of view 941.5 arcmin UCAC5 catalog search parameters: catalog_search_parameters->search_radius_deg= 0.013076 (47.1 arcsec) catalog_search_parameters->brightest_mag= 1.00 catalog_search_parameters->faintest_mag= 13.50 catalog_search_parameters->search_radius_second_step_deg 0.010461 (37.7 arcsec) ITERATION 01 -- talking to VizieR, this might be slow! UCAC5 search strategy: trying local copy first Found a local copy of UCAC5 RA wraps around 0/360 boundary: field RA 351.9208 through 0 to 8.2226, gap 8.2226 to 351.9208 UCAC5 local query limit 5000: matching up to 5000 detected stars, deepening the UCAC5 window to mag 15.50 Reading UCAC5 zone files... Searching UCAC5 zones 451 to 509 (Dec 0.3 to 11.5) Done reading UCAC5 zone files... Matched 2415 stars with the local copy of UCAC5. The local UCAC5 search seems to be a success Correcting the measured astrometric positions... Accuracy estimation diagnostic: 2411 matched stars entering correct_measured_positions(), 2411 with non-zero local correction accuracy Estimated accuracy of the plate solution: 0.28" Removing outliers... Correcting the measured astrometric positions... Accuracy estimation diagnostic: 2411 matched stars entering correct_measured_positions(), 2618 with non-zero local correction accuracy Estimated accuracy of the plate solution: 0.28" ITERATION 02 -- talking to VizieR, this might be slow! UCAC5 search strategy: trying local copy first Found a local copy of UCAC5 RA wraps around 0/360 boundary: field RA 351.9206 through 0 to 8.2230, gap 8.2230 to 351.9206 UCAC5 local query limit 5000: matching up to 5000 detected stars, deepening the UCAC5 window to mag 15.50 Reading UCAC5 zone files... Searching UCAC5 zones 451 to 509 (Dec 0.3 to 11.5) Done reading UCAC5 zone files... Matched 2416 stars with the local copy of UCAC5. The local UCAC5 search seems to be a success Accuracy estimation diagnostic: 2412 matched stars entering correct_measured_positions(), 2618 with non-zero local correction accuracy Estimated accuracy of the plate solution: 0.27" Accuracy estimation diagnostic: 2412 matched stars entering correct_measured_positions(), 2618 with non-zero local correction accuracy Estimated accuracy of the plate solution: 0.27" Excluding outliers - 2412 stars left (next iteration limit 2652) Stop iterations. The field is successfully solved and matched with the astrometric catalog! :) SIP_REFIT: SIP order 2 trial: matched=2412 robust_rms=12.986 arcsec worst_region_rms=25.312 arcsec outer_annulus_rms=25.312 arcsec SIP_REFIT: SIP order 3 trial: matched=2412 robust_rms=0.481 arcsec worst_region_rms=0.630 arcsec outer_annulus_rms=0.630 arcsec SIP_REFIT: SIP order 5 trial: matched=2412 robust_rms=0.290 arcsec worst_region_rms=0.350 arcsec outer_annulus_rms=0.299 arcsec SIP_REFIT: selected SIP order 5 SIP_REFIT: order=5 matched=2412 robust_rms_before=0.960 arcsec robust_rms_before_corrected=0.294 arcsec robust_rms_after=0.290 arcsec worst_region_rms_before=0.351 worst_region_rms_after=0.350 outer_annulus_rms_before=0.999 outer_annulus_rms_after=0.299 SIP_REFIT: refit does not sufficiently improve on the solution it would replace (best worst-region baseline 0.351 arcsec) - keeping the original SIP_REFIT_REJECTED: file=fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits worst_region_rms_kept=0.351 arcsec robust_rms_kept=0.294 arcsec matched=2412 WCS_QUALITY_DIAG: file=fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits N_match=2412 sigma_overall_arcsec=0.304 sigma_q1_arcsec=0.319 sigma_q2_arcsec=0.351 sigma_q3_arcsec=0.287 sigma_q4_arcsec=0.270 n_q1=679 n_q2=583 n_q3=559 n_q4=591 worst_quadrant_to_overall_ratio=1.154 The image catalog is written to wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits.wcscat.ucac5 The DS9 region file with the matched stars is written to wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits.wcscat.ds9.reg You may view it with the command: ds9 /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits -region wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits.wcscat.ds9.reg The astrometric residuals vector field is written to wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits.wcscat.astrometric_residuals Option '-n' not using photometric catalogs, just stick with astrometry opt '-i': 2 is the maximum number of iterations FORCED_PHOTOMETRY_CALIBRATION_METHOD=tycho2 - not using remote photometric catalogs, just stick with astrometry ############ /tmp/tmp.JUBXbpTsmJ (6) ############ Parsing command line arguments... The minor axis of the CCD chip should be 24.0 mm based on the derived pixel size of 3.8 um Internal estimated FoV 605.3' The guess is based on the FOCALLEN keyword. Trying to blindly solve the plate (local solve-field or remote server)... /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir/vast_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/util/wcs_image_calibration.sh /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits 605.0 Entering WCS image calibration mode. ORIGINAL_FITSFILE=/data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits FITSFILE before on_the_fly=/data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits FITSFILE after on_the_fly=/data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits verification OK: /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits It's not one of the telescopes that are know to produce images with good WCS solutions - will try to re-solve! FITSFILE after on_the_fly=/data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits WCS_IMAGE_NAME=wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits WCS-calibrated image found: wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits Checking if the catalog wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits.wcscat corresponding to the image wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits alredy exist and is non-empty... Catalog wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits.wcscat corresponding to the image wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits found. The catalog is in the new format, as expected. The plate-solved (WCS-calibrated) image is saved to wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits util/solve_plate_with_UCAC5 is preparing to read a catalog corresponding to the image /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits WCS catalog name: wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits.wcscat Excluding image region: 190.0 1039.0 192.0 1041.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 226.0 1548.0 228.0 1550.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 351.0 1875.0 353.0 1877.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 501.0 5912.0 503.0 5914.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 638.0 5545.0 640.0 5547.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 724.0 2731.0 726.0 2733.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 883.0 1376.0 885.0 1378.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 901.0 3972.0 903.0 3974.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 1151.0 918.0 1153.0 920.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 1157.0 135.0 1159.0 137.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding more image regions!.. (will not print them all) Excluded a total of 50 image regions (defined in bad_region.lst). SExtractor catalog parsing summary: zero_flux=0, no_flux_err=0, no_mag=0, no_mag_err=0, low_SNR=0, blended=140, bad_region=0, passed=2423 Got 2423 stars (including 2280 good ones) from the SExtractor catalog wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits.wcscat util/solve_plate_with_UCAC5 got 2423 stars from the SExtractor catalog Updated FoV from the plate-solved image: 941.5' Seting catalog search parameters based on the expected field of view 941.5 arcmin UCAC5 catalog search parameters: catalog_search_parameters->search_radius_deg= 0.013076 (47.1 arcsec) catalog_search_parameters->brightest_mag= 1.00 catalog_search_parameters->faintest_mag= 13.50 catalog_search_parameters->search_radius_second_step_deg 0.010461 (37.7 arcsec) ITERATION 01 -- talking to VizieR, this might be slow! UCAC5 search strategy: trying local copy first Found a local copy of UCAC5 RA wraps around 0/360 boundary: field RA 351.9321 through 0 to 8.2226, gap 8.2226 to 351.9321 UCAC5 local query limit 5000: matching up to 5000 detected stars, deepening the UCAC5 window to mag 15.50 Reading UCAC5 zone files... Searching UCAC5 zones 451 to 509 (Dec 0.3 to 11.5) Done reading UCAC5 zone files... Matched 2231 stars with the local copy of UCAC5. The local UCAC5 search seems to be a success Correcting the measured astrometric positions... Accuracy estimation diagnostic: 2227 matched stars entering correct_measured_positions(), 2227 with non-zero local correction accuracy Estimated accuracy of the plate solution: 0.29" Removing outliers... Correcting the measured astrometric positions... Accuracy estimation diagnostic: 2227 matched stars entering correct_measured_positions(), 2420 with non-zero local correction accuracy Estimated accuracy of the plate solution: 0.29" ITERATION 02 -- talking to VizieR, this might be slow! UCAC5 search strategy: trying local copy first Found a local copy of UCAC5 RA wraps around 0/360 boundary: field RA 351.9323 through 0 to 8.2230, gap 8.2230 to 351.9323 UCAC5 local query limit 5000: matching up to 5000 detected stars, deepening the UCAC5 window to mag 15.50 Reading UCAC5 zone files... Searching UCAC5 zones 451 to 509 (Dec 0.3 to 11.5) Done reading UCAC5 zone files... Matched 2232 stars with the local copy of UCAC5. The local UCAC5 search seems to be a success Accuracy estimation diagnostic: 2228 matched stars entering correct_measured_positions(), 2420 with non-zero local correction accuracy Estimated accuracy of the plate solution: 0.28" Accuracy estimation diagnostic: 2228 matched stars entering correct_measured_positions(), 2420 with non-zero local correction accuracy Estimated accuracy of the plate solution: 0.28" Excluding outliers - 2228 stars left (next iteration limit 2449) Stop iterations. The field is successfully solved and matched with the astrometric catalog! :) SIP_REFIT: SIP order 2 trial: matched=2228 robust_rms=12.957 arcsec worst_region_rms=24.788 arcsec outer_annulus_rms=24.788 arcsec SIP_REFIT: SIP order 3 trial: matched=2228 robust_rms=0.479 arcsec worst_region_rms=0.714 arcsec outer_annulus_rms=0.714 arcsec SIP_REFIT: SIP order 5 trial: matched=2228 robust_rms=0.298 arcsec worst_region_rms=0.354 arcsec outer_annulus_rms=0.312 arcsec SIP_REFIT: selected SIP order 5 SIP_REFIT: order=5 matched=2228 robust_rms_before=0.976 arcsec robust_rms_before_corrected=0.296 arcsec robust_rms_after=0.298 arcsec worst_region_rms_before=0.356 worst_region_rms_after=0.354 outer_annulus_rms_before=1.042 outer_annulus_rms_after=0.312 SIP_REFIT: refit does not sufficiently improve on the solution it would replace (best worst-region baseline 0.356 arcsec) - keeping the original SIP_REFIT_REJECTED: file=fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits worst_region_rms_kept=0.356 arcsec robust_rms_kept=0.296 arcsec matched=2228 WCS_QUALITY_DIAG: file=fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits N_match=2228 sigma_overall_arcsec=0.314 sigma_q1_arcsec=0.313 sigma_q2_arcsec=0.351 sigma_q3_arcsec=0.301 sigma_q4_arcsec=0.283 n_q1=636 n_q2=525 n_q3=536 n_q4=531 worst_quadrant_to_overall_ratio=1.119 The image catalog is written to wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits.wcscat.ucac5 The DS9 region file with the matched stars is written to wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits.wcscat.ds9.reg You may view it with the command: ds9 /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits -region wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits.wcscat.ds9.reg The astrometric residuals vector field is written to wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits.wcscat.astrometric_residuals Option '-n' not using photometric catalogs, just stick with astrometry opt '-i': 2 is the maximum number of iterations FORCED_PHOTOMETRY_CALIBRATION_METHOD=tycho2 - not using remote photometric catalogs, just stick with astrometry Saving the final (post-refit) wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits to local_wcs_cache/ 'wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits' -> 'local_wcs_cache/wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits' Saving the final (post-refit) wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits to local_wcs_cache/ 'wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits' -> 'local_wcs_cache/wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits' Saving the final (post-refit) wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits to local_wcs_cache/ 'wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits' -> 'local_wcs_cache/wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits' Saving the final (post-refit) wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits to local_wcs_cache/ 'wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits' -> 'local_wcs_cache/wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits' ################################### # Pre-local-correction WCS quality summary (see WCS_QUALITY_DIAG lines above) ref1=Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits sigma_overall=0.375 worst_q_ratio=1.120 ref2=Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits sigma_overall=0.303 worst_q_ratio=1.077 new1=fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits sigma_overall=0.304 worst_q_ratio=1.154 new2=fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits sigma_overall=0.314 worst_q_ratio=1.119 reference average sigma_overall=0.339 worst_q_ratio=1.0985 warn-on-ratio threshold: 2.0x reference ###################################
Astrometric residual vector field (catalog-matched stars):
plot_astrometric_residuals_xy.py: wrote wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966_astrometric_residuals.png (4897 matched stars from wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits.wcscat.astrometric_residuals, image 9576x6388, median residual 0.32 arcsec)
plot_astrometric_residuals_xy.py: wrote wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382_astrometric_residuals.png (4892 matched stars from wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits.wcscat.astrometric_residuals, image 9576x6388, median residual 0.27 arcsec)
plot_astrometric_residuals_xy.py: wrote wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273_astrometric_residuals.png (2412 matched stars from wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits.wcscat.astrometric_residuals, image 9576x6388, median residual 0.27 arcsec)
plot_astrometric_residuals_xy.py: wrote wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274_astrometric_residuals.png (2228 matched stars from wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits.wcscat.astrometric_residuals, image 9576x6388, median residual 0.28 arcsec)
Copying WCS-calibrated images back to input directory Saving fully-calibrated image wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits INFO: FPACK_FULLY_CALIBRATED_IMAGE=no (not compressing the image) 'wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits' -> '/data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits' Saving fully-calibrated image wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits INFO: FPACK_FULLY_CALIBRATED_IMAGE=no (not compressing the image) 'wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits' -> '/data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits' Preparing the HTML report for the field Psc-04-Q1b1x1 with default.sex.telephoto_lens_onlybrightstars_v1 Forced photometry on wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits at 00:07:39.51 +08:43:37.4: 15.74 +/- 99.00 upperlimit Forced photometry on wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits at 00:07:39.51 +08:43:37.4: 15.77 +/- 99.00 upperlimit Adding exclusion_list_local.txt__out20592.dat to exclusion_list_local.txt make_report_in_HTML.sh Phase 1 (network queries): 7s Pre-generating preview images in parallel... Done pre-generating preview images. Pre-generating finding charts in parallel... Done pre-generating finding charts. make_report_in_HTML.sh Pre-generation: 1s xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Considering the candidate 20592_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274 Preparing report for the candidate 20592_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Considering the candidate 20594_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274 The candidate 20594_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274 did not pass the final checks Discovery image 2   2026 10 11.37054    2461324.87054    10.88    23:36:10.35 +09:48:55.8   8492 1071   /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits **** FOUND 23:36:10.37 +09:48:56.5 in the exclusion list exclusion_list.txt **** make_report_in_HTML.sh Phase 2 (HTML assembly): 0s make_report_in_HTML.sh TOTAL: 8s Prepared the HTML report for the field Psc-04-Q1b1x1 with default.sex.telephoto_lens_onlybrightstars_v1 *------ done with default.sex.telephoto_lens_onlybrightstars_v1 ------* #### The local exclusion list is exclusion_list_local.txt #### 00:07:39.51 +08:43:37.4 wait *------ default.sex.telephoto_lens_vSTL ------* 'default.sex.telephoto_lens_vSTL' -> 'default.sex' Starting VaST with default.sex.telephoto_lens_vSTL ./vast --noflagimage --starmatchraius 5 --matchstarnumber 500 --selectbestaperture --sysrem 0 --type 4 --maxsextractorflag 99 --UTC --nofind --nojdkeyword /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/reference_imgs/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/reference_imgs/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits SExtractor catalog cache: saved Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits.cat to cache SExtractor catalog cache: saved Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits.cat to cache VaST run complete with default.sex.telephoto_lens_vSTL The four input images were /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/reference_imgs/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/reference_imgs/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits Checking WCS cache directory local_wcs_cache Found WCS cache directory local_wcs_cache Creating symlink local_wcs_cache/wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits Creating symlink local_wcs_cache/wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits Creating symlink local_wcs_cache/wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits Creating symlink local_wcs_cache/wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits Checking WCS cache directory /mnt/usb/NMW_NG/solved_reference_images Checking WCS cache directory /home/NMW_web_upload/solved_reference_images Checking WCS cache directory /dataX/kirx/NMW_NG_rt3_autumn2019/solved_reference_images Plate-solving the images wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits exists and is non-empty wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits exists and is non-empty wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits exists and is non-empty wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits exists and is non-empty ################################### # fov_of_wcs_calibrated_image.sh output for wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits (1st reference image) verification OK: wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits Image size: 937.3'x624.3' 15.6(deg)x10.4(deg) 9576x6388 pix Image scale: 5.87"/pix along the X axis and 5.86"/pix along the Y axis Image center: 23:59:58.228 +05:59:38.82 J2000 4789.000 3195.000 ################################### The image scale is 5.87"/pix, setting the soft and hard astrometric limits for filtering second-epoch detections: 5.9" and 8.8" ################################### # fov_of_wcs_calibrated_image.sh output for wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits (1st new image) verification OK: wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits Image size: 941.5'x626.8' 15.7(deg)x10.4(deg) 9576x6388 pix Image scale: 5.90"/pix along the X axis and 5.89"/pix along the Y axis Image center: 00:00:04.336 +05:59:13.98 J2000 4789.000 3195.000 ################################### ################################### # Check the image center offset between the reference and the first second-epoch image (pointing accuracy) Reference image center 23:59:58.228 +05:59:38.82 Second-epoch image center 00:00:04.336 +05:59:13.98 Angular distance between the image centers 0.0262 deg. Soft limit: 0.50 deg. Hard limit: 1.00 deg. ################################### ################################### # fov_of_wcs_calibrated_image.sh output for wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits (2nd new image) verification OK: wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits Image size: 941.5'x626.8' 15.7(deg)x10.4(deg) 9576x6388 pix Image scale: 5.90"/pix along the X axis and 5.89"/pix along the Y axis Image center: 00:00:01.926 +05:58:46.27 J2000 4789.000 3195.000 ################################### ################################### # Check the image center offset between the reference and the second second-epoch image (pointing accuracy) Reference image center 23:59:58.228 +05:59:38.82 Second-epoch image center 00:00:01.926 +05:58:46.27 Angular distance between the image centers 0.0212 deg. ################################### ################################### # Check the image center offset between the first and the second second-epoch image (shift should be applied between the second-epoch images) Second-epoch first image center 00:00:04.336 +05:59:13.98 Second-epoch second image center 00:00:01.926 +05:58:46.27 Angular distance between the image centers 0.01261 deg. ################################### Running solve_plate_with_UCAC5... Preparing for a parallel run Running util/solve_plate_with_UCAC5 --no_photometric_catalog --iterations 2 /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/reference_imgs/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits &> /tmp/tmp.0TSaYLa6gi Parallel run for /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/reference_imgs/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits Running util/solve_plate_with_UCAC5 --no_photometric_catalog --iterations 2 /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/reference_imgs/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits &> /tmp/tmp.YdGkSpPA6D Parallel run for /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/reference_imgs/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits Running util/solve_plate_with_UCAC5 --no_photometric_catalog --iterations 2 /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits &> /tmp/tmp.3NFR2glBsU Parallel run for /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits Running util/solve_plate_with_UCAC5 --no_photometric_catalog --iterations 2 /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits &> /tmp/tmp.Cdh6d6rBAK Parallel run for /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits Calibrating the magnitude scale Found non-empty wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits ____ Start of magnitude calibration ____ PHOTOMETRIC_CALIBRATION=TYCHO2_V Calibrating the magnitude scale with Tycho-2 stars util/transients/transient_factory_test31.sh is checking for the presence of non-empty wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits and wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits.wcscat wait (drain background util/solve_plate_with_UCAC5 jobs before Tycho-2 calibration -- avoids wcs_.fits write race) Tycho-2 catalog is found at lib/catalogs/tycho2 Tycho-2 catalog and the derived bright star exclusion list are ready Checking for the presence of non-empty wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits and wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits.wcscat Found non-empty wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits and wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits.wcscat The reference image (wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits) and catalog (wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits.wcscat) found 'wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits.wcscat' -> 'wcsmag.cat' The field straddles RA=0: the RA boundaries wrap around (min > max) Read 33634 stars from the SExtractor catalog wcsmag.cat Detected star coordinate range: RA 351.9992 to 7.9160 deg, Dec +0.6902 to +11.2656 deg Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.00 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.01 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.02 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.03 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.04 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.05 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.06 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.07 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.08 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.09 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.10 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.11 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.12 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.13 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.14 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.15 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.16 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.17 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.18 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.19 Tycho-2 catalog search boundaries: RA 351.9992 to 7.9160 deg, Dec 0.6902 to 11.2656 deg Loaded 4573 Tycho-2 stars within the image boundaries (VT and BT non-zero). Relation between the catalog and instrumental magnitudes is written to calib.txt Stars used for magnitude calibration (good matches): 3677 out of 3960 total matches. Matched with Tycho-2 3960 out of 33634 detected stars. The calibration function type and coefficients are written to calib.txt_param util/calibrate_magnitude_scale 0.000000 1.000000 22.546200 a=0.000000 b=1.000000 c=22.546200 From vast_summary.log: estimated ref. image limiting mag.: -7.05 Updating vast_summary.log: Estimated ref. image limiting mag.: 15.50 Updated vast_limiting_magnitude.log with calibrated magnitudes Working... Please, PLEASE, be patient!!! All lightcurves processed! =) Estimated ref. image limiting mag.: 15.50
Lightcurve magnitude calibration plot:

Preparing per-reference-image forced-photometry calibration (method=tycho2 band=V) The field straddles RA=0: the RA boundaries wrap around (min > max) Read 33634 stars from the SExtractor catalog wcsmag.cat Detected star coordinate range: RA 351.9992 to 7.9160 deg, Dec +0.6902 to +11.2656 deg Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.00 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.01 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.02 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.03 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.04 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.05 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.06 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.07 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.08 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.09 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.10 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.11 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.12 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.13 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.14 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.15 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.16 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.17 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.18 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.19 Tycho-2 catalog search boundaries: RA 351.9992 to 7.9160 deg, Dec 0.6902 to 11.2656 deg Loaded 4573 Tycho-2 stars within the image boundaries (VT and BT non-zero). Relation between the catalog and instrumental magnitudes is written to calib.txt Stars used for magnitude calibration (good matches): 3677 out of 3960 total matches. Matched with Tycho-2 3960 out of 33634 detected stars. util/calibrate_single_image_with_tycho2.sh: calibrated wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits via Tycho-2
Single-image forced-photometry magnitude calibration plot for wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits:

Forced-photometry filter: reusing the VaST-run aperture from image00001.cat.aperture for wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits Forced-photometry filter: calibrated wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits -> calib.txt_param_ref_wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits (aperture=5.0) The field straddles RA=0: the RA boundaries wrap around (min > max) Read 33762 stars from the SExtractor catalog wcsmag.cat Detected star coordinate range: RA 351.8996 to 8.2739 deg, Dec +0.3067 to +11.6461 deg Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.00 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.01 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.02 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.03 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.04 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.05 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.06 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.07 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.08 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.09 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.10 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.11 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.12 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.13 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.14 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.15 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.16 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.17 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.18 Reading Tycho2 catalog file lib/catalogs/tycho2/tyc2.dat.19 Tycho-2 catalog search boundaries: RA 351.8996 to 8.2739 deg, Dec 0.3067 to 11.6461 deg Loaded 5018 Tycho-2 stars within the image boundaries (VT and BT non-zero). Relation between the catalog and instrumental magnitudes is written to calib.txt Stars used for magnitude calibration (good matches): 3715 out of 3975 total matches. Matched with Tycho-2 3975 out of 33762 detected stars. util/calibrate_single_image_with_tycho2.sh: calibrated wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits via Tycho-2
Single-image forced-photometry magnitude calibration plot for wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits:

Forced-photometry filter: reusing the VaST-run aperture from image00002.cat.aperture for wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits Forced-photometry filter: calibrated wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits -> calib.txt_param_ref_wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits (aperture=5.1) ____ End of magnitude calibration ____ Applying consolidated magnitude filters... Preparing the exclusion lists for this field Done with filtering Found 10 candidate transients before the final filtering. (Hard limit: 10000) Median FWHM seeing for isolated stars: 2.1 pix Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits 2.4 pix Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits 2.0 pix fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits 1.9 pix fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits Limiting magnitude estimates: 15.5 mag. Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits 15.5 mag. Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits 14.4 mag. fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits 14.3 mag. fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits All-image limiting magnitude estimate: 14.3 (SNR ) 13.6 (80% of stars) with default.sex.telephoto_lens_vSTL The first estimate is the magnitude of a star detected with a signal-to-noise ratio of following Karpov (2025, Acta Polytechnica, 65, 50). This value should be representative of the faintest stars clearly visible in the image. The brighter of the limiting magnitude estimates for the two second-epoch images is reported here. The second estimate is the 80th percentile of the magnitude distribution of stars detected on all four images. This value is representative of the faintest object that may enter the candidate transients list. The hard cut-off for the candidate transients is 15.5 mag. Waiting for UCAC5 plate solver wait ############ /tmp/tmp.0TSaYLa6gi (6) ############ Parsing command line arguments... WARNING from replace_file_with_symlink_if_filename_contains_white_spaces() the input file /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/reference_imgs/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits is already a symlink and we do not allow symlinks on symlinks The guess is based on the existing WCS header. Trying to blindly solve the plate (local solve-field or remote server)... /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir/vast_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/util/wcs_image_calibration.sh /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/reference_imgs/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits 570.0 Entering WCS image calibration mode. ORIGINAL_FITSFILE=/data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/reference_imgs/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits FITSFILE before on_the_fly=/data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/reference_imgs/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits WARNING from replace_file_with_symlink_if_filename_contains_white_spaces() the input file /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/reference_imgs/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits is already a symlink and we do not allow symlinks on symlinks FITSFILE after on_the_fly=/data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/reference_imgs/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits verification OK: /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/reference_imgs/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits It's a known telescope with plate solutions that are supposed to be good. The input image /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/reference_imgs/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits has a WCS header - will blindly trust it is good... '/data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/reference_imgs/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits' -> 'wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits' This WCS solution (astrometrynet) will be kept as is, not refit by util/solve_plate_with_UCAC5 FITSFILE after on_the_fly=/data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/reference_imgs/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits WCS_IMAGE_NAME=wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits WCS-calibrated image found: wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits Checking if the catalog wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits.wcscat corresponding to the image wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits alredy exist and is non-empty... Catalog wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits.wcscat corresponding to the image wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits found. The catalog is in the new format, as expected. The plate-solved (WCS-calibrated) image is saved to wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits util/solve_plate_with_UCAC5 is preparing to read a catalog corresponding to the image /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/reference_imgs/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits WCS catalog name: wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits.wcscat Excluding image region: 190.0 1039.0 192.0 1041.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 226.0 1548.0 228.0 1550.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 351.0 1875.0 353.0 1877.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 501.0 5912.0 503.0 5914.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 638.0 5545.0 640.0 5547.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 724.0 2731.0 726.0 2733.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 883.0 1376.0 885.0 1378.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 901.0 3972.0 903.0 3974.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 1151.0 918.0 1153.0 920.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 1157.0 135.0 1159.0 137.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding more image regions!.. (will not print them all) Excluded a total of 50 image regions (defined in bad_region.lst). SExtractor catalog parsing summary: zero_flux=0, no_flux_err=0, no_mag=0, no_mag_err=0, low_SNR=22, blended=1340, bad_region=0, passed=33612 Got 33612 stars (including 32227 good ones) from the SExtractor catalog wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits.wcscat util/solve_plate_with_UCAC5 got 33612 stars from the SExtractor catalog Updated FoV from the plate-solved image: 937.3' Seting catalog search parameters based on the expected field of view 937.3 arcmin UCAC5 catalog search parameters: catalog_search_parameters->search_radius_deg= 0.013018 (46.9 arcsec) catalog_search_parameters->brightest_mag= 1.00 catalog_search_parameters->faintest_mag= 13.50 catalog_search_parameters->search_radius_second_step_deg 0.010414 (37.5 arcsec) ITERATION 01 -- talking to VizieR, this might be slow! UCAC5 search strategy: trying local copy first Found a local copy of UCAC5 RA wraps around 0/360 boundary: field RA 351.9992 through 0 to 7.9160, gap 7.9160 to 351.9992 UCAC5 local query limit 5000: matching up to 5000 detected stars, deepening the UCAC5 window to mag 15.50 Reading UCAC5 zone files... Searching UCAC5 zones 453 to 508 (Dec 0.7 to 11.3) Done reading UCAC5 zone files... Matched 4899 stars with the local copy of UCAC5. The local UCAC5 search seems to be a success Correcting the measured astrometric positions... Accuracy estimation diagnostic: 4893 matched stars entering correct_measured_positions(), 4893 with non-zero local correction accuracy Estimated accuracy of the plate solution: 0.32" Removing outliers... Correcting the measured astrometric positions... Accuracy estimation diagnostic: 4893 matched stars entering correct_measured_positions(), 33612 with non-zero local correction accuracy Estimated accuracy of the plate solution: 0.31" ITERATION 02 -- talking to VizieR, this might be slow! UCAC5 search strategy: trying local copy first Found a local copy of UCAC5 RA wraps around 0/360 boundary: field RA 351.9998 through 0 to 7.9160, gap 7.9160 to 351.9998 UCAC5 local query limit 5000: matching up to 5000 detected stars, deepening the UCAC5 window to mag 15.50 Reading UCAC5 zone files... Searching UCAC5 zones 453 to 508 (Dec 0.7 to 11.3) Done reading UCAC5 zone files... Matched 4899 stars with the local copy of UCAC5. The local UCAC5 search seems to be a success Accuracy estimation diagnostic: 4893 matched stars entering correct_measured_positions(), 33612 with non-zero local correction accuracy Estimated accuracy of the plate solution: 0.31" Accuracy estimation diagnostic: 4893 matched stars entering correct_measured_positions(), 33612 with non-zero local correction accuracy Estimated accuracy of the plate solution: 0.33" Excluding outliers - 4893 stars left (next iteration limit 5382) Stop iterations. The field is successfully solved and matched with the astrometric catalog! :) SIP_REFIT: wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits is a symbolic link - will not rewrite the WCS of whatever it points to, but will still refit the output catalog positions SIP_REFIT: util/identify.sh trusts the WCS of wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits (astrometrynet) - keeping it, no refit (set VAST_FORCE_SIP_REFIT=1 to refit anyway) WCS_QUALITY_DIAG: file=Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits N_match=4893 sigma_overall_arcsec=0.364 sigma_q1_arcsec=0.285 sigma_q2_arcsec=0.406 sigma_q3_arcsec=0.403 sigma_q4_arcsec=0.369 n_q1=1276 n_q2=1249 n_q3=1197 n_q4=1171 worst_quadrant_to_overall_ratio=1.116 The image catalog is written to wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits.wcscat.ucac5 The DS9 region file with the matched stars is written to wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits.wcscat.ds9.reg You may view it with the command: ds9 /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/reference_imgs/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits -region wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits.wcscat.ds9.reg The astrometric residuals vector field is written to wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits.wcscat.astrometric_residuals Option '-n' not using photometric catalogs, just stick with astrometry opt '-i': 2 is the maximum number of iterations FORCED_PHOTOMETRY_CALIBRATION_METHOD=tycho2 - not using remote photometric catalogs, just stick with astrometry ############ /tmp/tmp.YdGkSpPA6D (6) ############ Parsing command line arguments... The guess is based on the existing WCS header. Trying to blindly solve the plate (local solve-field or remote server)... /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir/vast_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/util/wcs_image_calibration.sh /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/reference_imgs/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits 573.0 Entering WCS image calibration mode. ORIGINAL_FITSFILE=/data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/reference_imgs/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits FITSFILE before on_the_fly=/data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/reference_imgs/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits FITSFILE after on_the_fly=/data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/reference_imgs/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits verification OK: /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/reference_imgs/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits It's a known telescope with plate solutions that are supposed to be good. The input image /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/reference_imgs/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits has a WCS header - will blindly trust it is good... '/data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/reference_imgs/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits' -> 'wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits' This WCS solution (astrometrynet) will be kept as is, not refit by util/solve_plate_with_UCAC5 FITSFILE after on_the_fly=/data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/reference_imgs/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits WCS_IMAGE_NAME=wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits WCS-calibrated image found: wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits Checking if the catalog wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits.wcscat corresponding to the image wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits alredy exist and is non-empty... Catalog wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits.wcscat corresponding to the image wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits found. The catalog is in the new format, as expected. The plate-solved (WCS-calibrated) image is saved to wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits util/solve_plate_with_UCAC5 is preparing to read a catalog corresponding to the image /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/reference_imgs/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits WCS catalog name: wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits.wcscat Excluding image region: 190.0 1039.0 192.0 1041.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 226.0 1548.0 228.0 1550.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 351.0 1875.0 353.0 1877.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 501.0 5912.0 503.0 5914.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 638.0 5545.0 640.0 5547.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 724.0 2731.0 726.0 2733.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 883.0 1376.0 885.0 1378.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 901.0 3972.0 903.0 3974.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 1151.0 918.0 1153.0 920.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 1157.0 135.0 1159.0 137.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding more image regions!.. (will not print them all) Excluded a total of 50 image regions (defined in bad_region.lst). SExtractor catalog parsing summary: zero_flux=0, no_flux_err=0, no_mag=0, no_mag_err=0, low_SNR=16, blended=1193, bad_region=21, passed=33746 Got 33746 stars (including 32487 good ones) from the SExtractor catalog wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits.wcscat util/solve_plate_with_UCAC5 got 33746 stars from the SExtractor catalog Updated FoV from the plate-solved image: 941.2' Seting catalog search parameters based on the expected field of view 941.2 arcmin UCAC5 catalog search parameters: catalog_search_parameters->search_radius_deg= 0.013072 (47.1 arcsec) catalog_search_parameters->brightest_mag= 1.00 catalog_search_parameters->faintest_mag= 13.50 catalog_search_parameters->search_radius_second_step_deg 0.010458 (37.6 arcsec) ITERATION 01 -- talking to VizieR, this might be slow! UCAC5 search strategy: trying local copy first Found a local copy of UCAC5 RA wraps around 0/360 boundary: field RA 351.8996 through 0 to 8.2739, gap 8.2739 to 351.8996 UCAC5 local query limit 5000: matching up to 5000 detected stars, deepening the UCAC5 window to mag 15.50 Reading UCAC5 zone files... Searching UCAC5 zones 451 to 510 (Dec 0.3 to 11.6) Done reading UCAC5 zone files... Matched 4895 stars with the local copy of UCAC5. The local UCAC5 search seems to be a success Correcting the measured astrometric positions... Accuracy estimation diagnostic: 4885 matched stars entering correct_measured_positions(), 4885 with non-zero local correction accuracy Estimated accuracy of the plate solution: 0.26" Removing outliers... Correcting the measured astrometric positions... Accuracy estimation diagnostic: 4885 matched stars entering correct_measured_positions(), 33746 with non-zero local correction accuracy Estimated accuracy of the plate solution: 0.26" ITERATION 02 -- talking to VizieR, this might be slow! UCAC5 search strategy: trying local copy first Found a local copy of UCAC5 RA wraps around 0/360 boundary: field RA 351.8999 through 0 to 8.2739, gap 8.2739 to 351.8999 UCAC5 local query limit 5000: matching up to 5000 detected stars, deepening the UCAC5 window to mag 15.50 Reading UCAC5 zone files... Searching UCAC5 zones 451 to 510 (Dec 0.3 to 11.6) Done reading UCAC5 zone files... Matched 4895 stars with the local copy of UCAC5. The local UCAC5 search seems to be a success Accuracy estimation diagnostic: 4885 matched stars entering correct_measured_positions(), 33746 with non-zero local correction accuracy Estimated accuracy of the plate solution: 0.26" Accuracy estimation diagnostic: 4885 matched stars entering correct_measured_positions(), 33746 with non-zero local correction accuracy Estimated accuracy of the plate solution: 0.28" Excluding outliers - 4885 stars left (next iteration limit 5373) Stop iterations. The field is successfully solved and matched with the astrometric catalog! :) SIP_REFIT: wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits is a symbolic link - will not rewrite the WCS of whatever it points to, but will still refit the output catalog positions SIP_REFIT: util/identify.sh trusts the WCS of wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits (astrometrynet) - keeping it, no refit (set VAST_FORCE_SIP_REFIT=1 to refit anyway) WCS_QUALITY_DIAG: file=Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits N_match=4885 sigma_overall_arcsec=0.294 sigma_q1_arcsec=0.267 sigma_q2_arcsec=0.311 sigma_q3_arcsec=0.294 sigma_q4_arcsec=0.298 n_q1=1273 n_q2=1211 n_q3=1272 n_q4=1129 worst_quadrant_to_overall_ratio=1.059 The image catalog is written to wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits.wcscat.ucac5 The DS9 region file with the matched stars is written to wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits.wcscat.ds9.reg You may view it with the command: ds9 /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/reference_imgs/Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits -region wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits.wcscat.ds9.reg The astrometric residuals vector field is written to wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits.wcscat.astrometric_residuals Option '-n' not using photometric catalogs, just stick with astrometry opt '-i': 2 is the maximum number of iterations FORCED_PHOTOMETRY_CALIBRATION_METHOD=tycho2 - not using remote photometric catalogs, just stick with astrometry ############ /tmp/tmp.3NFR2glBsU (6) ############ Parsing command line arguments... The minor axis of the CCD chip should be 24.0 mm based on the derived pixel size of 3.8 um Internal estimated FoV 605.3' The guess is based on the FOCALLEN keyword. Trying to blindly solve the plate (local solve-field or remote server)... /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir/vast_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/util/wcs_image_calibration.sh /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits 605.0 Entering WCS image calibration mode. ORIGINAL_FITSFILE=/data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits FITSFILE before on_the_fly=/data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits FITSFILE after on_the_fly=/data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits verification OK: /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits It's not one of the telescopes that are know to produce images with good WCS solutions - will try to re-solve! FITSFILE after on_the_fly=/data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits WCS_IMAGE_NAME=wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits WCS-calibrated image found: wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits Checking if the catalog wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits.wcscat corresponding to the image wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits alredy exist and is non-empty... Catalog wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits.wcscat corresponding to the image wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits found. The catalog is in the new format, as expected. The plate-solved (WCS-calibrated) image is saved to wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits util/solve_plate_with_UCAC5 is preparing to read a catalog corresponding to the image /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits WCS catalog name: wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits.wcscat Excluding image region: 190.0 1039.0 192.0 1041.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 226.0 1548.0 228.0 1550.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 351.0 1875.0 353.0 1877.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 501.0 5912.0 503.0 5914.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 638.0 5545.0 640.0 5547.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 724.0 2731.0 726.0 2733.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 883.0 1376.0 885.0 1378.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 901.0 3972.0 903.0 3974.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 1151.0 918.0 1153.0 920.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 1157.0 135.0 1159.0 137.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding more image regions!.. (will not print them all) Excluded a total of 50 image regions (defined in bad_region.lst). SExtractor catalog parsing summary: zero_flux=0, no_flux_err=0, no_mag=0, no_mag_err=0, low_SNR=9, blended=407, bad_region=40, passed=18481 Got 18481 stars (including 18009 good ones) from the SExtractor catalog wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits.wcscat util/solve_plate_with_UCAC5 got 18481 stars from the SExtractor catalog Updated FoV from the plate-solved image: 941.5' Seting catalog search parameters based on the expected field of view 941.5 arcmin UCAC5 catalog search parameters: catalog_search_parameters->search_radius_deg= 0.013076 (47.1 arcsec) catalog_search_parameters->brightest_mag= 1.00 catalog_search_parameters->faintest_mag= 13.50 catalog_search_parameters->search_radius_second_step_deg 0.010461 (37.7 arcsec) ITERATION 01 -- talking to VizieR, this might be slow! UCAC5 search strategy: trying local copy first Found a local copy of UCAC5 RA wraps around 0/360 boundary: field RA 351.9006 through 0 to 8.2585, gap 8.2585 to 351.9006 UCAC5 local query limit 5000: matching up to 5000 detected stars, deepening the UCAC5 window to mag 15.50 Reading UCAC5 zone files... Searching UCAC5 zones 451 to 510 (Dec 0.3 to 11.6) Done reading UCAC5 zone files... Matched 4861 stars with the local copy of UCAC5. The local UCAC5 search seems to be a success Correcting the measured astrometric positions... Accuracy estimation diagnostic: 4852 matched stars entering correct_measured_positions(), 4852 with non-zero local correction accuracy Estimated accuracy of the plate solution: 0.31" Removing outliers... Correcting the measured astrometric positions... Accuracy estimation diagnostic: 4852 matched stars entering correct_measured_positions(), 18481 with non-zero local correction accuracy Estimated accuracy of the plate solution: 0.31" ITERATION 02 -- talking to VizieR, this might be slow! UCAC5 search strategy: trying local copy first Found a local copy of UCAC5 RA wraps around 0/360 boundary: field RA 351.9002 through 0 to 8.2590, gap 8.2590 to 351.9002 UCAC5 local query limit 5000: matching up to 5000 detected stars, deepening the UCAC5 window to mag 15.50 Reading UCAC5 zone files... Searching UCAC5 zones 451 to 510 (Dec 0.3 to 11.6) Done reading UCAC5 zone files... Matched 4862 stars with the local copy of UCAC5. The local UCAC5 search seems to be a success Accuracy estimation diagnostic: 4852 matched stars entering correct_measured_positions(), 18481 with non-zero local correction accuracy Estimated accuracy of the plate solution: 0.32" Accuracy estimation diagnostic: 4852 matched stars entering correct_measured_positions(), 18481 with non-zero local correction accuracy Estimated accuracy of the plate solution: 0.33" Excluding outliers - 4852 stars left (next iteration limit 5337) Stop iterations. The field is successfully solved and matched with the astrometric catalog! :) SIP_REFIT: wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits is a symbolic link - will not rewrite the WCS of whatever it points to, but will still refit the output catalog positions SIP_REFIT: SIP order 2 trial: matched=4852 robust_rms=12.728 arcsec worst_region_rms=27.774 arcsec outer_annulus_rms=27.774 arcsec SIP_REFIT: SIP order 3 trial: matched=4852 robust_rms=0.539 arcsec worst_region_rms=0.734 arcsec outer_annulus_rms=0.734 arcsec SIP_REFIT: SIP order 5 trial: matched=4852 robust_rms=0.342 arcsec worst_region_rms=0.375 arcsec outer_annulus_rms=0.359 arcsec SIP_REFIT: selected SIP order 5 SIP_REFIT: order=5 matched=4852 robust_rms_before=0.977 arcsec robust_rms_before_corrected=0.340 arcsec robust_rms_after=0.342 arcsec worst_region_rms_before=0.374 worst_region_rms_after=0.375 outer_annulus_rms_before=1.059 outer_annulus_rms_after=0.359 SIP_REFIT: refit does not sufficiently improve on the solution it would replace (best worst-region baseline 0.374 arcsec) - keeping the original SIP_REFIT_REJECTED: file=fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits worst_region_rms_kept=0.374 arcsec robust_rms_kept=0.340 arcsec matched=4852 WCS_QUALITY_DIAG: file=fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits N_match=4852 sigma_overall_arcsec=0.344 sigma_q1_arcsec=0.350 sigma_q2_arcsec=0.370 sigma_q3_arcsec=0.334 sigma_q4_arcsec=0.311 n_q1=1425 n_q2=1191 n_q3=1113 n_q4=1123 worst_quadrant_to_overall_ratio=1.077 The image catalog is written to wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits.wcscat.ucac5 The DS9 region file with the matched stars is written to wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits.wcscat.ds9.reg You may view it with the command: ds9 /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits -region wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits.wcscat.ds9.reg The astrometric residuals vector field is written to wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits.wcscat.astrometric_residuals Option '-n' not using photometric catalogs, just stick with astrometry opt '-i': 2 is the maximum number of iterations FORCED_PHOTOMETRY_CALIBRATION_METHOD=tycho2 - not using remote photometric catalogs, just stick with astrometry ############ /tmp/tmp.Cdh6d6rBAK (6) ############ Parsing command line arguments... The minor axis of the CCD chip should be 24.0 mm based on the derived pixel size of 3.8 um Internal estimated FoV 605.3' The guess is based on the FOCALLEN keyword. Trying to blindly solve the plate (local solve-field or remote server)... /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir/vast_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/util/wcs_image_calibration.sh /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits 605.0 Entering WCS image calibration mode. ORIGINAL_FITSFILE=/data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits FITSFILE before on_the_fly=/data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits FITSFILE after on_the_fly=/data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits verification OK: /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits It's not one of the telescopes that are know to produce images with good WCS solutions - will try to re-solve! FITSFILE after on_the_fly=/data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits WCS_IMAGE_NAME=wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits WCS-calibrated image found: wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits Checking if the catalog wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits.wcscat corresponding to the image wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits alredy exist and is non-empty... Catalog wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits.wcscat corresponding to the image wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits found. The catalog is in the new format, as expected. The plate-solved (WCS-calibrated) image is saved to wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits util/solve_plate_with_UCAC5 is preparing to read a catalog corresponding to the image /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits WCS catalog name: wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits.wcscat Excluding image region: 190.0 1039.0 192.0 1041.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 226.0 1548.0 228.0 1550.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 351.0 1875.0 353.0 1877.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 501.0 5912.0 503.0 5914.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 638.0 5545.0 640.0 5547.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 724.0 2731.0 726.0 2733.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 883.0 1376.0 885.0 1378.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 901.0 3972.0 903.0 3974.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 1151.0 918.0 1153.0 920.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding image region: 1157.0 135.0 1159.0 137.0 (defined in bad_region.lst) Excluding more image regions!.. (will not print them all) Excluded a total of 50 image regions (defined in bad_region.lst). SExtractor catalog parsing summary: zero_flux=0, no_flux_err=0, no_mag=0, no_mag_err=0, low_SNR=8, blended=385, bad_region=41, passed=17563 Got 17563 stars (including 17106 good ones) from the SExtractor catalog wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits.wcscat util/solve_plate_with_UCAC5 got 17563 stars from the SExtractor catalog Updated FoV from the plate-solved image: 941.5' Seting catalog search parameters based on the expected field of view 941.5 arcmin UCAC5 catalog search parameters: catalog_search_parameters->search_radius_deg= 0.013076 (47.1 arcsec) catalog_search_parameters->brightest_mag= 1.00 catalog_search_parameters->faintest_mag= 13.50 catalog_search_parameters->search_radius_second_step_deg 0.010461 (37.7 arcsec) ITERATION 01 -- talking to VizieR, this might be slow! UCAC5 search strategy: trying local copy first Found a local copy of UCAC5 RA wraps around 0/360 boundary: field RA 351.9079 through 0 to 8.2729, gap 8.2729 to 351.9079 UCAC5 local query limit 5000: matching up to 5000 detected stars, deepening the UCAC5 window to mag 15.50 Reading UCAC5 zone files... Searching UCAC5 zones 451 to 510 (Dec 0.3 to 11.6) Done reading UCAC5 zone files... Matched 4852 stars with the local copy of UCAC5. The local UCAC5 search seems to be a success Correcting the measured astrometric positions... Accuracy estimation diagnostic: 4840 matched stars entering correct_measured_positions(), 4840 with non-zero local correction accuracy Estimated accuracy of the plate solution: 0.33" Removing outliers... Correcting the measured astrometric positions... Accuracy estimation diagnostic: 4840 matched stars entering correct_measured_positions(), 17563 with non-zero local correction accuracy Estimated accuracy of the plate solution: 0.33" ITERATION 02 -- talking to VizieR, this might be slow! UCAC5 search strategy: trying local copy first Found a local copy of UCAC5 RA wraps around 0/360 boundary: field RA 351.9079 through 0 to 8.2734, gap 8.2734 to 351.9079 UCAC5 local query limit 5000: matching up to 5000 detected stars, deepening the UCAC5 window to mag 15.50 Reading UCAC5 zone files... Searching UCAC5 zones 451 to 510 (Dec 0.3 to 11.6) Done reading UCAC5 zone files... Matched 4852 stars with the local copy of UCAC5. The local UCAC5 search seems to be a success Accuracy estimation diagnostic: 4840 matched stars entering correct_measured_positions(), 17563 with non-zero local correction accuracy Estimated accuracy of the plate solution: 0.33" Accuracy estimation diagnostic: 4840 matched stars entering correct_measured_positions(), 17563 with non-zero local correction accuracy Estimated accuracy of the plate solution: 0.34" Excluding outliers - 4840 stars left (next iteration limit 5324) Stop iterations. The field is successfully solved and matched with the astrometric catalog! :) SIP_REFIT: wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits is a symbolic link - will not rewrite the WCS of whatever it points to, but will still refit the output catalog positions SIP_REFIT: SIP order 2 trial: matched=4840 robust_rms=12.447 arcsec worst_region_rms=26.609 arcsec outer_annulus_rms=26.609 arcsec SIP_REFIT: SIP order 3 trial: matched=4840 robust_rms=0.508 arcsec worst_region_rms=0.885 arcsec outer_annulus_rms=0.885 arcsec SIP_REFIT: SIP order 5 trial: matched=4840 robust_rms=0.355 arcsec worst_region_rms=0.391 arcsec outer_annulus_rms=0.381 arcsec SIP_REFIT: selected SIP order 5 SIP_REFIT: order=5 matched=4840 robust_rms_before=0.994 arcsec robust_rms_before_corrected=0.362 arcsec robust_rms_after=0.355 arcsec worst_region_rms_before=0.401 worst_region_rms_after=0.391 outer_annulus_rms_before=1.086 outer_annulus_rms_after=0.381 SIP_REFIT: refit does not sufficiently improve on the solution it would replace (best worst-region baseline 0.401 arcsec) - keeping the original SIP_REFIT_REJECTED: file=fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits worst_region_rms_kept=0.401 arcsec robust_rms_kept=0.362 arcsec matched=4840 WCS_QUALITY_DIAG: file=fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits N_match=4840 sigma_overall_arcsec=0.364 sigma_q1_arcsec=0.364 sigma_q2_arcsec=0.410 sigma_q3_arcsec=0.355 sigma_q4_arcsec=0.321 n_q1=1443 n_q2=1200 n_q3=1127 n_q4=1070 worst_quadrant_to_overall_ratio=1.128 The image catalog is written to wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits.wcscat.ucac5 The DS9 region file with the matched stars is written to wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits.wcscat.ds9.reg You may view it with the command: ds9 /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits -region wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits.wcscat.ds9.reg The astrometric residuals vector field is written to wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits.wcscat.astrometric_residuals Option '-n' not using photometric catalogs, just stick with astrometry opt '-i': 2 is the maximum number of iterations FORCED_PHOTOMETRY_CALIBRATION_METHOD=tycho2 - not using remote photometric catalogs, just stick with astrometry Skipping WCS quality comparison: not the first SExtractor pass (default.sex.telephoto_lens_vSTL) Copying WCS-calibrated images back to input directory Saving fully-calibrated image wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits INFO: FPACK_FULLY_CALIBRATED_IMAGE=no (not compressing the image) The destination file is already there - not rewriting /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits Saving fully-calibrated image wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits INFO: FPACK_FULLY_CALIBRATED_IMAGE=no (not compressing the image) The destination file is already there - not rewriting /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/wcs_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits Preparing the HTML report for the field Psc-04-Q1b1x1 with default.sex.telephoto_lens_vSTL Forced photometry on wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits at 00:02:24.35 +08:23:08.8: 13.11 +/- 0.03 detection Forced photometry on wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits at 00:11:36.84 +04:46:43.6: 13.37 +/- 0.04 detection Forced photometry on wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits at 00:09:28.75 +06:44:24.1: 15.94 +/- 99.00 upperlimit Forced photometry on wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits at 23:51:50.55 +07:26:42.3: 13.50 +/- 0.05 detection Forced photometry on wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits at 23:52:52.05 +08:39:50.3: 15.82 +/- 99.00 upperlimit Forced photometry on wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-21_04-38-28_20.00sec_4.90C_LIGHT_0966.fits at 23:51:51.96 +07:28:02.0: 13.34 +/- 0.04 detection Forced photometry on wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits at 23:51:50.55 +07:26:42.3: 13.44 +/- 0.04 detection Forced photometry on wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits at 00:02:24.35 +08:23:08.8: 13.15 +/- 0.03 detection Forced photometry reference-image weighted average: 13.47 +/- 0.03 Forced photometry on wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits at 23:52:52.05 +08:39:50.3: 15.89 +/- 99.00 upperlimit Forced photometry filter REJECTED candidate at 23:51:50.55 +07:26:42.3: ref_mag=13.47 +/- 0.03 new_mean_mag=13.2244 delta=0.24 (need > 0.90) Forced photometry on wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits at 00:11:36.84 +04:46:43.6: 13.37 +/- 0.04 detection Forced photometry reference-image weighted average: 13.13 +/- 0.02 Forced photometry on wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits at 23:51:51.96 +07:28:02.0: 13.29 +/- 0.03 detection Forced photometry filter REJECTED candidate at 00:02:24.35 +08:23:08.8: ref_mag=13.13 +/- 0.02 new_mean_mag=13.0235 delta=0.10 (need > 0.90) Forced photometry reference-image weighted average: 13.37 +/- 0.03 Forced photometry reference-image weighted average: 13.31 +/- 0.03 Forced photometry on wcs_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-07-22_04-54-46_20.00sec_0.00C_LIGHTs_0382.fits at 00:09:28.75 +06:44:24.1: 15.94 +/- 99.00 upperlimit Forced photometry filter REJECTED candidate at 00:11:36.84 +04:46:43.6: ref_mag=13.37 +/- 0.03 new_mean_mag=13.4765 delta=-0.10 (need > 0.90) Forced photometry filter REJECTED candidate at 23:51:51.96 +07:28:02.0: ref_mag=13.31 +/- 0.03 new_mean_mag=13.1404 delta=0.17 (need > 0.90) Adding exclusion_list_local.txt__out53848.dat to exclusion_list_local.txt Adding exclusion_list_local.txt__out53962.dat to exclusion_list_local.txt make_report_in_HTML.sh Phase 1 (network queries): 7s Pre-generating preview images in parallel... Done pre-generating preview images. Pre-generating finding charts in parallel... Done pre-generating finding charts. make_report_in_HTML.sh Pre-generation: 1s xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Considering the candidate 53693_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274 The candidate 53693_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274 did not pass the final checks Discovery image 2   2026 10 11.37054    2461324.87054    8.76    00:07:39.45 +08:43:38.6   3759 1470   /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits **** FOUND 00:07:39.47 +08:43:38.2 in the exclusion list exclusion_list_local.txt **** xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Considering the candidate 53798_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274 The candidate 53798_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274 did not pass the final checks Discovery image 1   2026 10 11.36991    2461324.86991    12.94    00:02:24.37 +08:23:09.6   4532 1732   /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits Discovery image 2   2026 10 11.37054    2461324.87054    13.22    00:02:24.33 +08:23:08.0   4526 1727   /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Considering the candidate 53848_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274 Preparing report for the candidate 53848_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Considering the candidate 53858_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274 The candidate 53858_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274 did not pass the final checks Discovery image 1   2026 10 11.36991    2461324.86991    13.22    23:51:51.96 +07:28:01.7   6067 2378   /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits Discovery image 2   2026 10 11.37054    2461324.87054    13.06    23:51:51.96 +07:28:02.3   6061 2373   /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Considering the candidate 53866_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274 The candidate 53866_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274 did not pass the final checks Discovery image 1   2026 10 11.36991    2461324.86991    13.21    23:51:50.42 +07:26:42.3   6070 2392   /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits Discovery image 2   2026 10 11.37054    2461324.87054    13.23    23:51:50.68 +07:26:42.3   6063 2387   /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Considering the candidate 53877_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274 The candidate 53877_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274 did not pass the final checks Discovery image 1   2026 10 11.36991    2461324.86991    13.47    00:11:36.84 +04:46:42.7   3016 3811   /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-52-30_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0273.fits Discovery image 2   2026 10 11.37054    2461324.87054    13.49    00:11:36.84 +04:46:44.6   3010 3805   /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Considering the candidate 53962_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274 Preparing report for the candidate 53962_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Considering the candidate 32290_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274 The candidate 32290_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274 did not pass the final checks Discovery image 3   2026 10 11.37054    2461324.87054    12.72    23:49:03.94 +07:53:43.5   6494 2139   /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits Rejecting candidate due to large distance (43.8") between the two second-epoch detections xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Considering the candidate 29882_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274 The candidate 29882_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274 did not pass the final checks Discovery image 3   2026 10 11.37054    2461324.87054    10.89    23:59:36.63 +08:47:57.3   4957 1504   /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits Rejecting candidate due to large distance (45.0") between the two second-epoch detections xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Considering the candidate 26495_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274 The candidate 26495_fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274 did not pass the final checks Discovery image 3   2026 10 11.37054    2461324.87054    10.84    23:36:10.37 +09:48:56.0   8491 1071   /data_ssd/NMW-TexasTech/workdir//img_2026-10-11_CI_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_035422_TTUQ1b1x1_3306741_pXbrSvVJ/fd_Psc-04-Q1b1x1_2026-10-11_03-53-24_20.00sec_-0.00C_LIGHTs_0274.fits **** FOUND 23:36:10.39 +09:48:56.1 in the exclusion list exclusion_list.txt **** make_report_in_HTML.sh Phase 2 (HTML assembly): 0s make_report_in_HTML.sh TOTAL: 8s Prepared the HTML report for the field Psc-04-Q1b1x1 with default.sex.telephoto_lens_vSTL *------ done with default.sex.telephoto_lens_vSTL ------* #### The local exclusion list is exclusion_list_local.txt #### 00:07:39.51 +08:43:37.4 00:09:28.75 +06:44:24.1 23:52:52.05 +08:39:50.3 ########### Completed Psc-04-Q1b1x1 ########### The analysis was running at tau We are allowed to update the exclusion list at tau host Found ../exclusion_list_TTUQ1.txt #### The exclusion list before filtering-out asteroids, bad pixels and adding Gaia sources #### 00:07:39.51 +08:43:37.4 00:09:28.75 +06:44:24.1 23:52:52.05 +08:39:50.3 ################################################################################### 00:07:39.51 +08:43:37.4 -- asteroid (will NOT add it to exclusion list) 00:09:28.75 +06:44:24.1 -- asteroid (will NOT add it to exclusion list) 23:52:52.05 +08:39:50.3 -- asteroid (will NOT add it to exclusion list) renamed 'exclusion_list_index_html.txt_noasteroids' -> 'exclusion_list_index_html.txt' renamed 'exclusion_list_index_html.txt_nohotpixels' -> 'exclusion_list_index_html.txt' # Count candidates with no identification (that also don't look like hot pix) Found 0 unidentified candidates (excluding asteroids, hot pixels and known variable stars). ################################################################################### 0 candidates found (excluding asteroids and hot pixels) This does not look like a test run ################################################################################### exclusion_list_gaiadr2.txt NOT FOUND exclusion_list_apass.txt NOT FOUND IS_THIS_TEST_RUN=NO ALLOW_EXCLUSION_LIST_UPDATE= YES #### Nothing to add to the exclusion list #### The observatory MPC code is V36 ############################################################ Positions of planets computed with util/planet_finder/main.py for JD(UT)2461324.86991334 -observatory V36 14:37:18.32 -18:19:28.7 Mercury (0.0mag) 14:07:22.81 -20:56:16.3 Venus (-4.5mag) 08:39:52.43 +19:37:00.8 Mars (1.0mag) 09:34:20.91 +15:05:25.1 Jupiter (-1.9mag) 00:42:27.04 +01:36:57.2 Saturn (0.4mag) 04:12:04.99 +20:57:58.2 Uranus (5.6mag) 00:10:20.84 -00:25:36.1 Neptune (7.7mag) 20:24:10.85 -23:43:30.3 Pluto (14.5mag) 13:31:59.93 -14:25:54.4 Moon (-8.4mag) -rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 361 Oct 11 03:56 planets.txt ############################################################ Positions of selected moons from JPL HORIZONS for JD(UT)2461324.86991334: 09:34:15.73 +15:05:54.2 Io (6.1mag) 09:34:30.48 +15:04:32.6 Europa (6.2mag) 09:34:35.43 +15:04:05.7 Ganymede (5.6mag) 09:33:56.76 +15:07:36.4 Callisto (6.9mag) 09:34:05.38 +15:25:55.6 Himalia (15.6mag) 09:34:18.15 +15:05:39.9 Thebe (16.4mag) 09:32:55.58 +15:27:04.0 Elara (17.5mag) 09:36:47.24 +14:28:15.0 Pasiphae (17.8mag) 09:32:57.21 +15:32:29.3 Carme (18.8mag) 00:42:13.91 +01:37:09.6 Titan (8.2mag) 00:42:30.38 +01:36:51.5 Rhea (9.6mag) 00:41:56.30 +01:34:10.3 Iapetus (11.0mag) 00:42:11.31 +01:36:48.7 Hyperion (14.1mag) 00:40:46.49 +01:24:38.0 Phoebe (16.4mag) -rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 568 Oct 11 03:56 moons.txt ############################################################ Positions of selected spacecraft from JPL HORIZONS for JD(UT)2461324.86991334: 02:48:39.37 +21:21:45.6 JWST 17:10:09.16 +39:33:35.3 Chandra 12:53:56.79 -62:12:08.8 XMM-Newton -rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 96 Oct 11 03:56 spacecraft.txt ############################################################ Positions of bright comets computed with util/comet_finder/main.py for JD(UT)2461324.86991334 -observatory V36 03:46:08.73 +20:11:55.5 17.1mag P/1996 R2 (Lagerkvist) 18:24:41.96 -33:29:50.6 14.7mag P/2010 H2 (Vales) 07:39:48.45 -72:24:03.5 17.2mag C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein) 06:15:52.03 +34:39:00.2 17.7mag C/2017 K2 (PANSTARRS) 07:30:10.73 +25:27:30.5 16.9mag C/2022 N2 (PANSTARRS) 09:01:56.10 +35:39:58.1 16.2mag C/2024 E1 (Wierzchos) 18:26:45.58 +41:31:35.5 17.4mag C/2024 J3 (ATLAS) 05:46:11.86 -13:35:23.2 16.6mag C/2024 T5 (ATLAS) 12:17:03.56 +15:59:45.8 16.2mag C/2025 V2 (Rankin) 13:50:57.92 -02:43:08.0 16.5mag C/2025 Y1 (ATLAS) 18:42:32.26 +65:13:35.9 15.8mag C/2026 A2 (Bok) 02:36:08.89 +43:17:29.5 17.8mag C/2026 B2 (Sun-Gao) 12:45:38.48 +14:15:32.5 17.7mag A/2026 E1 16:29:18.28 -20:42:54.7 12.9mag P/2026 R2 (Leonard) 00:27:03.98 +19:00:01.5 17.6mag 2P/Encke 22:58:15.23 -31:42:05.0 14.5mag 10P/Tempel 02:10:45.80 +38:44:31.8 16.8mag 11P/Tempel-Swift-LINEAR 12:11:13.31 -08:09:40.8 16.3mag 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 00:22:26.09 -08:52:14.1 15.6mag 65P/Gunn 07:35:45.79 +16:00:47.8 13.9mag 78P/Gehrels 03:00:05.02 +14:20:32.0 17.6mag 88P/Howell 07:38:53.21 +40:14:36.1 17.1mag 112P/Urata-Niijima 09:02:36.40 +14:09:14.0 17.8mag 114P/Wiseman-Skiff 11:40:58.91 +13:15:55.1 14.8mag 123P/West-Hartley 14:06:39.76 -32:12:37.8 17.8mag 124P/Mrkos 06:50:49.44 +19:18:34.4 15.6mag 128P/Shoemaker-Holt 21:39:39.93 +03:25:19.9 9.5mag 161P/Hartley-IRAS 10:18:26.68 +01:39:23.6 14.3mag 169P/NEAT 03:29:20.62 +04:36:03.9 14.8mag 220P/McNaught 06:03:27.23 +45:12:55.2 15.4mag 260P/McNaught 07:27:35.97 +25:37:06.4 17.9mag 266P/Christensen 09:56:13.31 +31:37:40.8 18.0mag 493P/LONEOS -rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 1.6K Oct 11 03:56 comets.txt ############################################################ List of recent ASAS-SN transients from https://www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu/asassn/transients.html : 05:39:14.97 +51:06:11.70 ASASSN-26fk 2026-10-5.53 -3.9 02:49:03.98 -49:55:57.00 SN 2026adfy 2026-10-4.88 16.61 22:03:46.31 -11:07:57.70 AT2026adgn 2026-10-4.28 -2.56 15:03:12.98 +49:51:05.40 ASASSN-26fj 2026-10-2.06 15.91 08:07:27.96 -65:51:03.90 ASASSN-26fi 2026-10-1.36 15.82 21:02:34.66 +23:57:26.20 ASASSN-26fh 2026-10-1.27 15.94 20:00:16.62 +03:26:29.90 AT2026adfv 2026-10-1.3 16.42 00:08:42.74 -32:33:16.50 SN2026abhc 2026-09-29.15 15.57 21:02:30.26 -19:27:41.80 SN2026acxa 2026-09-29.13 14.65 04:39:17.45 -28:06:12.40 ASASSN-26fg 2026-09-23.25 15.73 05:25:07.80 +04:38:32.40 SN2026aajs 2026-09-21.32 17.04 19:56:12.67 +08:25:27.70 AT2026acgs 2026-09-18.14 15.84 00:02:34.07 +52:55:19.10 ASASSN-26ff 2026-09-16.43 15.37 23:44:33.18 +17:46:12.20 SN2026yjv 2026-09-15.38 18.32 16:21:12.24 +57:37:51.30 SN 2026aafh 2026-09-14.11 15.02 23:36:00.27 -19:28:18.00 SN 2026aaks 2026-09-14.44 16.89 16:35:24.86 -05:32:38.20 SN2026aasi 2026-09-12.99 16.58 16:46:08.71 +37:25:21.80 SN2026aafk 2026-09-13.25 17.4 23:48:37.86 +50:25:24.60 SN2026aafs 2026-09-13.47 17 21:20:27.02 +02:10:42.50 SN2026aagh ------- 08:02:26.85 -24:37:44.10 ASASSN-26fe 2026-09-13.34 13.67 02:29:34.91 +23:06:56.30 SN2026aars 2026-09-12.27 16.93 02:47:25.52 -32:58:34.50 SN 2026znh 2026-09-9.92 16.26 04:59:14.53 -83:27:58.80 ASASSN-26fd 2026-09-9.11 17.27 17:52:06.79 -23:43:20.70 ASASSN-26fc 2026-09-8.79 12.14 03:52:53.26 -14:19:28.70 SN 2026zfw 2026-09-8 17.78 01:53:26.46 +10:07:25.10 SN2026aacj 2026-09-7.17 16.27 20:04:34.47 +62:38:38.10 SN2026zji 2026-09-7.14 15.87 22:37:05.59 +34:24:35.70 SN2026aaiv 2026-09-7.22 13.48 22:24:21.29 -10:25:31.60 ASASSN-26fb 2026-09-5.3 13.93 00:44:54.28 +41:33:10.50 AT2026aabo 2026-09-3.29 15.02 00:52:12.40 -58:22:08.60 SN 2026zhl 2026-08-31.92 16.51 19:53:57.87 +61:00:19.70 ASASSN-26fa 2026-08-31.18 14.63 00:21:50.96 -09:29:16.30 AT2026zwp 2026-08-31.41 15.59 19:45:06.20 +18:22:48.80 V488 2026-08-30.13 9.37 18:25:12.79 -22:25:29.10 V8055 2026-08-30 10.76 17:17:45.96 +64:31:40.10 ASASSN-26ez 2026-08-25.13 10.87 19:02:47.09 +58:08:21.00 AT2026zwo 2026-08-24.16 15.78 04:20:07.58 -42:26:59.90 AT2026zjy 2026-08-23.03 15.91 03:08:18.02 +11:54:46.50 SN2026ymb 2026-08-23.4 16.44 20:22:32.48 -50:45:14.30 SN2026yid 2026-08-22.82 15.13 04:24:28.39 -56:20:21.60 ASASSN-26ey 2026-08-20.02 15.55 16:46:37.81 -63:14:59.80 ASASSN-26ex 2026-08-18.78 3.63 21:28:47.85 +20:31:03.60 SN 2026sfn 2026-08-16.3 17.09 23:01:28.67 -61:00:39.00 SN 2026yib 2026-08-14.85 17.36 00:22:23.20 -32:16:02.70 SN 2026whu 2026-08-14.96 16.5 19:56:21.71 -37:24:19.90 ASASSN-26ew 2026-08-13.82 14.73 13:53:14.21 +00:26:52.00 SN 2026wkv 2026-08-10.12 15.83 05:21:07.61 +23:38:20.10 TCP J05210763+2338194 2026-08-10.59 9.34 01:28:20.49 +40:13:27.10 SN2026wpd 2026-08-9.34 16.37 23:47:50.87 +49:28:49.80 SN2026wjs 2026-08-9.35 17.12 16:03:20.92 +17:43:23.70 AT2026xau 2026-08-9.3 17.71 01:10:22.05 -09:34:08.50 SN2026weo 2026-08-7.46 15.76 00:56:54.35 -35:55:29.40 AT2026wdy 2026-08-5.05 16.08 22:08:07.63 -53:03:58.90 AT2026wek 2026-08-3.82 17.17 14:51:51.34 +66:13:24.60 ASASSN-26ev 2026-08-2.15 14.02 12:06:50.79 -36:16:06.20 SN2026wgm 2026-08-1.73 15.61 16:56:36.90 -59:29:26.00 ASASSN-26er 2026-07-25.82 15.09 01:21:27.83 -10:37:05.00 SN2026vbh 2026-07-25.61 15.97 21:17:31.59 +22:25:50.90 ASASSN-26eq 2026-07-24.37 15.13 18:53:36.89 +16:56:43.60 ASASSN-26ep 2026-07-23.47 -4.06 12:18:47.98 -30:48:47.50 ASASSN-26et 2026-07-22.76 13.98 13:00:47.82 +15:42:17.60 SN2026uwk 2026-07-21.75 16.38 18:52:31.11 -32:28:00.90 ASASSN-26en 2026-07-21.77 14.63 14:42:58.01 -62:32:59.10 ASASSN-26es 2026-07-20.79 15.36 20:12:45.57 -32:53:13.00 ASASSN-26em 2026-07-20.94 16.83 18:54:24.33 -46:11:51.70 ASASSN-26eu 2026-07-20.93 14.86 03:18:56.99 -80:55:10.40 AT2026ugi 2026-07-20.03 17.12 18:43:58.40 +24:22:41.80 ASASSN-26eo 2026-07-19.36 16.16 04:50:01.03 -02:22:33.80 ASASSN-26ej 2026-07-16.17 17.02 18:34:55.28 -31:41:00.90 ASASSN-26ek 2026-07-16.24 15.73 17:07:43.61 -44:21:53.50 ASASSN-26el 2026-07-15.86 16.01 14:45:08.35 +24:13:12.30 ASASSN-26ei 2026-07-16.17 16.46 10:00:46.44 -32:36:31.10 AT 2023mhb 2026-07-14.73 16.67 14:39:37.45 -11:22:36.20 AT 2026unl 2026-07-15.27 17.11 10:49:42.57 -11:25:55.80 ASASSN-26eh 2026-07-14.72 16.58 19:33:53.06 -07:15:00.80 ASASSN-22le 2026-07-14.15 15.5 02:45:40.52 -27:55:30.30 ASASSN-26ef 2026-07-12.35 15.86 23:26:43.80 +04:42:39.70 SN 2026qtn 2026-07-12.22 16.47 02:19:17.26 +28:57:15.40 ASASSN-26ec 2026-07-11.53 2.78 18:31:15.56 -05:34:31.50 AT2026stb 2026-07-11.28 -1.29 13:36:08.24 +23:29:05.00 AT2026pjf 2026-07-10.18 -0.72 17:33:39.82 +04:22:36.70 SN2026pir 2026-07-9.86 -0.66 11:21:41.26 -50:33:36.30 ASASSN-26ed 2026-07-8.8 -1.3 23:41:42.11 +26:29:49.10 AT2026qil 2026-07-9.3 16.15 20:21:30.50 -32:03:40.10 ASASSN-26ee 2026-07-7.22 15.53 19:37:44.09 -05:35:42.80 AT2026ryu 2026-07-7.17 14.88 11:06:55.46 -04:07:04.50 AT2026qqg 2026-07-5.01 16.82 19:07:23.69 -74:13:37.30 AT2026qly 2026-07-5.02 17.31 17:57:43.80 +27:18:40.10 ASASSN-26ea 2026-07-5.07 16.67 19:59:01.43 -32:07:34.30 ASASSN-26eb 2026-07-4.97 15.52 18:46:50.35 -57:44:13.20 SN 2026qqp 2026-07-5.03 -0.92 19:17:31.69 -39:55:29.90 ASASSN-26dz 2026-07-5.14 15.91 19:14:31.37 +12:03:52.90 AT 2026rdg 2026-07-3.43 11.81 04:05:50.09 -70:24:34.40 AT 2026qpr 2026-06-30.4 15.96 13:45:37.49 -05:59:35.80 SN 2026pub 2026-06-30.09 16.01 16:41:15.63 +39:17:14.70 SN 2026pel 2026-06-26.38 16.07 10:14:40.19 -35:38:21.30 ASASSN-26dy 2026-06-25.99 15.63 14:47:21.56 -40:15:51.30 ASASSN-26dv 2026-06-23.03 14.62 13:38:49.79 -77:21:06.70 ASASSN-26dw 2026-06-23.04 16.09 -rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 5.7K Oct 11 03:56 asassn_transients_list.txt ############################################################ Truncated list of TOCP transients from http://www.cbat.eps.harvard.edu/unconf/tocp.html : 22:57:17.96 +47:07:41.8 TCP J22571796+4707418 2026-08-09.3289 14.3mag 09:13:38.17 +76:28:18.1 PSN J09133817+7628181 2026-08-09.8037 15.4mag 00:43:17.29 +41:26:48.6 PNV J00431729+4126486 2026-08-14.0920 16.8mag 00:42:52.82 +41:10:58.6 PNV J00425282+4110586 2026-08-17.7723 19.9mag 00:42:52.83 +41:10:59.6 PNV J00425283+4110596 2026-08-18.6119 19.3mag 18:25:12.76 -22:25:29.3 TCP J18251276-2225293 2026-08-19.1062 9.4mag 18:03:09.04 +12:18:14.0 TCP J18030904+1218140 2026-08-19.5199 14.9mag 19:45:06.48 +18:22:42.2 PNV J19450648+1822422 2026-08-25.1278 9.0mag 00:42:54.65 +41:22:59.3 PNV J00425465+4122593 2026-08-25.4712 18.9mag 00:42:50.38 +41:18:58.76 PNV J00425038+4118587 2026-09-04.1512 18.2mag 00:42:12.76 +41:16:28.4 PNV J00421276+4116284 2026-09-10.9176 18.67Cmag 17:52:06.80 -23:43:20.7 TCP J17520680-2343207 2026-09-08.7896 12.6mag 00:42:40.94 +41:15:37.1 PNV J00424094+4115371 2026-09-17.8925 18.3mag 08:49:20.13 -09:19:15.8 TCP J08492013-0919158 2026-09-18.4698 13.3mag 00:42:13.93 +41:16:35.6 PNV J00421393+4116356 2026-09-22.6597 19.66Cmag 18:14:01.58 +15:13:55.5 TCP J18140158+1513555 2026-09-24.4645 14.1mag 00:42:36.61 +41:13:50.5 TCP J00423661+4113505 2026-09-29.7462 17.4mag 22:03:46.29 -11:07:57.8 TCP J22034629-1107578 2026-09-29.7438 14.51Cmag 22:05:02.06 +20:49:01.2 TCP J22050206+2049012 2026-10-03.5715 17.13Cmag 00:38:15.01 +41:14:47.2 TCP J00381501+4114472 2026-10-08.5978 17.72Cmag -rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 191K Oct 11 03:56 tocp_transients_list.txt ############################################################ Truncated list of recent TNS transients from https://www.wis-tns.org/ : 18:28:46.287 +43:53:39.30 AT 2026acxz 2026-09-22.18 19.7418 18:50:25.837 +51:48:48.31 AT 2026acxy 2026-09-26.14 19.507 17:29:04.550 +70:58:39.69 AT 2026acxx 2026-09-18.17 19.9857 18:36:38.362 +53:14:52.16 AT 2026acxw 2026-09-22.17 19.6863 03:16:13.837 +33:07:04.16 AT 2026acxv 2026-09-24.50 20.55 05:52:14.054 +15:53:08.19 AT 2026acxu 2026-09-22.43 20.8781 08:02:21.458 +24:05:52.06 AT 2026acxt 2026-09-24.51 19.9945 08:26:53.421 +00:01:31.92 AT 2026acxs 2026-09-24.52 18.9046 08:04:09.422 +26:03:07.21 AT 2026acxr 2026-09-16.52 20.3455 09:49:29.452 +22:28:47.85 AT 2026acxq 2026-09-24.52 18.9887 10:39:38.343 +25:39:08.54 AT 2026acxp 2026-09-24.53 18.7327 10:46:46.678 +35:46:40.03 AT 2026acxo 2026-09-24.53 18.7833 07:54:42.514 -01:42:07.85 AT 2026acxn 2026-09-24.52 20.2449 08:05:13.593 +06:17:43.23 AT 2026acxm 2026-09-24.52 19.4626 08:21:28.246 +03:46:33.77 AT 2026acxl 2026-09-24.52 19.7999 04:46:32.556 +00:05:47.64 AT 2026acxk 2026-09-22.48 20.2187 03:43:52.593 +21:51:56.00 AT 2026acxj 2026-07-06.48 19.0551 07:17:54.475 +23:18:27.43 AT 2026acxi 2026-09-25.47 19.7261 05:06:29.004 +73:49:45.19 AT 2026acxh 2026-09-16.43 20.0492 02:06:05.697 -18:58:51.46 AT 2026acxg 2026-09-24.55 20.61 -rw-r--r-- 1 apache apache 89K Oct 11 03:56 tns_transients_list.txt

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