ELBRUS: COMMUNICATION WITH OTHER PROGRAMS.
( obs ) OBSOLETE FILE FORMATS
The files formats in this page are now obsolete. See the previous pages for actual formats.
Nevertheless these 'obsolete' formats are and will remain understood by Elbrus.
The only difference is that they are more complicated to use and have less capabilities than the new format.
Sending to Elbrus the path of an image file to analyze:
Sending to Elbrus the path of a parameters file to be used further on:
Receiving from Elbrus the coordinates of the image centre:
Sending to Elbrus the path of an image file to analyze:
You have to put a text file named elbrus.txt into the "Images" folder (menu 'Others / Edit parameters / Folders / Images').
This elbrus.txt file must have 20 text lines with the following format
(please don't modify the comments in odd lines ):

The first line of the file must contain the text "1.- image file path:".
The path of the image to be analysed (in this example c:\elbrus\imacris\m4i.fit) must be in the second line.
Then you can tell where are the searching coordinates.
A 1 means from the fits header.
A 0 means the searching coordinates are the RA and DEC bellow.
Sending to Elbrus the path of a parameters file to be used further on:
You have to put a text file named elbrus.txt into the "Images" folder.
This elbrus.txt file must have 20 text lines with the following format:
(please don't modify the comments in odd lines )

The first line of the file must contain the text "1.- parameters file path:".
The path of the new parameters file (in this example c:\elbrus\imacris\paramCris.txt) must be in the second line.
Receiving from Elbrus the coordinates of the image centre:
Every time elbrus analyses an image, it writes a text file named elbrus.pos in the "Images" folder.

This elbrus.pos file has several text lines. The first two lines contain the image center coordinates. They are given for J2000 and actual equinox.
The first number in these lines is the number of sides in the polygon-solution. This number is the criterion you must use for accepting the goodness of the result.
The thirth line is the image angle (image orientation) as computed from the solved image.
The last two lines are for auto-image-recentering after captures. (See ToDo)
An example of an 8 sided poor solution. Remember: only more than 14 sides gives you a total security.

An example of 'No solution found':

NOTE: The file elbrus.pos is written in every working mode. Not only in the 'Wait for message' mode.
You can return to the previous page:
(4) Executing Elbrus from VB script files.
You can return to the first page:
(1) Sending a command file to Elbrus.
(Updated November 23, 2008 Alfonso Pulido)