default.sex not found

[skycattmll]

Hi,

I tried to use sextractor and I installed it from conda.

It works fine but I have to copy default.sex, default.param, default.conv into the working directory otherwise it won't work and shows the following:

> WARNING: default.sex not found, using internal defaults

----- SExtractor 2.28.0 started on 2023-10-29 at 15:09:21 with 1 thread

> Setting catalog parameters
> *ERROR*: can't read default.param

How can I setup the path for sextractor to automatically find these files in its own installation location?

[kirxkirx]

I'd argue one shouldn't do that as default.sex (and default.param, default.conv to somewhat lesser extent) are instrument-specific: they include settings that should be optimized for a given telescope+camera combination (also may need to be tweaked depending on how bright your current target is). It make sense to have different sets of these files for different projects...

[rmathar]

One might use the -c option of the sex to specify the full path of the configuration
file default.sex, and within that configuration file edit the lines with FILTER_NAME to set
the full path name of default.conf, and edit PARAMETERS_NAME to the full path name of default.param .
[I did not test this, but this is what the source code proposes...]