Updated Proper Motion Tutorial

At the risk of turning this into a blog on nice TAP tricks (which it's not supposed to be): Our classic short tutorial on adding proper motions to almost arbitrary object lists has just gotten a facelift today.

And there's new content, too – I now show what to do when you don't even have positions but just object names. In order to keep this sufficiently geeky, here's the query as a spoiler:

SELECT col1, ra, dec
FROM TAP_UPLOAD.t1
LEFT OUTER JOIN ident
ON (id=normId(col1))
LEFT OUTER JOIN basic
ON (oidref=oid)

But to close on a non-TAP topic: Registry! There's an experimental facility to have this kind of thing in the Registry; the PM tutorial is in, for instance, with the ivoid ivo://edu.gavo.org/hd/gavo_addpms). One thing you can do with this is generate a list of registred documents that essentially updates itself from the registry.

Another is figure out where the source code of the document is (if the authors choose to share it, which is of course a very smart thing to do); in our example it's in Volute, the IVOA's semi-official version control system. So, if you find a bug (defined as “superset of typo”) in the linked document, you're most welcome to supply patches as diffs or just directly fix things if you have commit privileges in Volute.