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Title: UCAC4 catalog
Post by: richardsutor on March 03, 2018, 05:26:30 PM
Any idea where can I download the UCAC4 catalog? I've looked at the sites and pressed a lot of links but can't find the actual catalog.
Thanks,
-Richard
Title: Re: UCAC4 catalog
Post by: Sander Berents on March 04, 2018, 04:47:38 AM
Hi Richard,

The UCAC4 catalog can be found at http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/Cat?I/322A (http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/Cat?I/322A). Use the FTP link (its 5th "tab"). Although Safari has some support for FTP, it will not work in this case because it is unable to resolve the UCAC4 link on this FTP server. Please see the Preferences section in the documentation (Catalogs subsection) for the detailed instructions using the free Cyberduck ftp client.
Title: Re: UCAC4 catalog
Post by: richardsutor on March 07, 2018, 08:41:12 AM
Hi Sander, thanks to your help I downloaded the UCAC4 catalog using Cyberduck. Now I'm having a problem downloading the USNO-A2.0 Catalog (using Cyberduck), I get a FTP 421 error, download incomplete. Any ideas on this one?
Thanks,
-Richard
Title: Re: UCAC4 catalog
Post by: Sander Berents on March 07, 2018, 09:31:50 PM
It seems that the ftp server of the United States Naval Observatory Flagstaff Station is down. I've just notified them about this through email. I'll let you know when I receive any news about this.
Title: Re: UCAC4 catalog
Post by: richardsutor on March 08, 2018, 08:49:34 AM
Thank you, it's good to know it wasn't just me.  8)
Title: Re: UCAC4 catalog
Post by: richardsutor on March 25, 2018, 12:22:25 PM
The server still seems to be down.
Title: Re: UCAC4 catalog
Post by: Sander Berents on March 25, 2018, 09:23:01 PM
You're right. And I never got a response from them. I'll put a copy of both catalogs on the website. Currently my upload speed is very slow, so it may take a while until that finishes.
Title: Re: UCAC4 catalog
Post by: richardsutor on March 26, 2018, 01:02:22 PM
Thank you, I'll look for them.
Title: Re: UCAC4 catalog
Post by: Sander Berents on March 26, 2018, 09:57:50 PM
Hi Richard,

You can find it at

https://codeobsession.com/files/USNO-A2.0.zip

It's more than 4GB. Unzip after download.
Title: Re: UCAC4 catalog
Post by: richardsutor on March 27, 2018, 01:26:57 PM
Thank you, I'm downloading it now.
Title: Re: UCAC4 catalog
Post by: Sander Berents on March 29, 2018, 06:49:59 AM
It's always better to get things from the source, but in case the UCAC4 ftp server goes down like the one for USNO-A2.0, a copy of the UCAC4 catalog is now also available for download at

https://codeobsession.com/files/CDS-322A.zip (https://codeobsession.com/files/CDS-322A.zip)

It's nearly 6GB. Unzip after download.
Title: Re: UCAC4 catalog
Post by: AtTheEyepiece on May 07, 2018, 05:41:31 PM
That's great!   Thank you all for providing these files.

John