Running catchartrn

Once you have prepared a suitable graphics translation file you run catchartrn to customise a target list by simply typing:

catchartrn

The amount of textual information written to the new target list is controlled using the command line mechanism described in Section . You should then answer the following prompts.

GTFILE

Enter the name of the graphics translation file.

CATIN

Enter the name of the original target list.

CATOUT

Enter the name of the output target list, customised for plotting.

Example graphics translation files are available for most of the catalogues in the default list of remote on-line catalogues supplied with CURSA. The files available are listed in Table . The SuperCOSMOS graphics translation files both plot all the objects in the finding chart as ellipses. In scosmosbw.grt all the objects are plotted using the default colour (usually black objects on a white background or vice versa). In scosmoscol.grt the colour used for each object varies with the value of the CLASS classification column in the target list, according to the following scheme: stars are shown in blue, galaxies in red, unclassifiable objects in green and objects considered to be noise in yellow. Most of the other files plot the objects as symbols which scale with magnitude or flux.

Table: Graphics translation files for remote catalogues

Catalogue	File
Bonner Durchmusterung	/star/share/cursa/bd.grt
HST Guide Star Catalog	/star/share/cursa/gsc.grt
IRAS Point Source Catalogue	/star/share/cursa/iras_psc.grt
Positions and Proper Motions (PPM)	/star/share/cursa/ppm.grt
Third Ref. Catalogue of Bright Galaxies	/star/share/cursa/rc3.grt
SAO Catalog	/star/share/cursa/sao.grt
SIMBAD	/star/share/cursa/simbad.grt
SuperCOSMOS surveys (black and white plot)	/star/share/cursa/scosmosbw.grt
SuperCOSMOS surveys (colour plot)	/star/share/cursa/scosmoscol.grt
USNO PMM	/star/share/cursa/usno.grt