Table row to SED?

[Ivan Zolotukhin]

Hi Mark,

Couple of workarounds exactly for this case which I use myself:

 - any decent diagram plotting service on the web like Google Charts
(can show my example custom TOPCAT activation action command)
 - own tiny SAMP client in a language like Python with simple graphics
libraries (I use unreleased Octopus for this if you remember)

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With best regards,
 Ivan


On Thu, Sep 11, 2014 at 6:17 PM, Mark Taylor <m.b.taylor at bristol.ac.uk> wrote:
> Hi Apps,
>
> I have a request from a user who has tables with photometry columns
> in topcat, and wants to be able to click on a row and see an SED
> built from the photometry data contained in the row.
>
> The request as phrased was to add a "plot SED" button in topcat,
> but I'm not going to do that.  I'm wondering if there is anything
> out there that can accept SAMP messages (table.load.votable
> followed by one or more table.highlight.row) to achieve a similar
> effect.  The receiving application would need to be able to
> make sense of table and column metadata well enough to associate
> columns with spectral coordinates.
>
> I'm a bit out of touch with spectral applications, so I don't know
> if this is far-fetched or easy or somewhere in between, or whether
> there is some other approach that makes more sense to achieve
> the same general effect, anyway, any thoughts welcome.
>
> Mark
>
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> Mark Taylor   Astronomical Programmer   Physics, Bristol University, UK
> m.b.taylor at bris.ac.uk +44-117-9288776  http://www.star.bris.ac.uk/~mbt/