RA or Dec in FITS Header With "60.000" As The Seconds Value

I experienced an error loading SGP captured image files into Pixinsight WBPP:

*** Error [000]: C:/Program Files/PixInsight/src/scripts/AdP/WCSmetadata.jsh, line 1991: Error: Invalid coordinates (seconds)

Pixinsight forum consensus is this error usually indicates that the capture software has written an invalid position with 60 arcsec rather than correctly incrementing to the next arcmin value with 0 arcsecs.

I examined the FITS headers for many images captured that night and eventually spotted an image with the OBJCTDEC value showing ‘+61 11 60.000’. I believe Pixinsight WBPP considers “60.000” an invalid value in the seconds place and this is what caused my attempt to load images as a selected group to fail. I will test this theory more fully in the next few days.

So far I was able to load each image individually into WBPP but it always failed if I included this image in a group selection such as with “+ Lights”. Sometimes the load attempt locked up Pixinsight altogether. It was another couple days until I had time to figure out which image it was.

Maybe Pixinsight should be more forgiving? Or maybe SGP could evaluate seconds as “0.000” when the residual decimal places are insignificant?

SGPro has made several adjustments to FITS header data in the 4.5 beta. What version of SGPro created the images you refer to?

Hi Ken,

Program says I’m on the latest version with no update available: SGPro 4.4.1.1441

I once had a program interpret a file name in a batch file as the stop command and just stopped processing the batch file!

You may want to try the latest Beta release which is the 4.5 beta Ken was referring to.
You are running the latest production release.

Under Tools -> Options there a checkbox to “Show Beta release when checking for updates.”

Thanks Eric. I’ll try the beta tonight!