![]() And to be fair of all the things that go wrong during an imaging session I don't think I have ever had a problem with plate solving. Once it works properly you will never look back! It also means that consecutive nights imaging are all framed the same way and you need to crop very little of the stacked image.ĭepends - I can barely see the main stars of Orion such is the light pollution in my garden so yes, to frame most DSO's plate solving is pretty much essential. I set it to 0.5 arcmin once and it took too long to get to the right spot so went back to 1 arcmin precision. I have it set to a pointing precision of one arcmin and it usually takes two solves/moves (1 minute max) to get on target. No prior star alignment is necessary at all other than PA. Just start from the mounts parked position. Once it takes that first plate solve image and calculates how far off target it is, it will then command the mount to move to the right spot and solve again, and again, as many times as necessary to get onto target (as described in the framing tab), before starting the sequence. You definitely need NINA to drive the mount for the plate solving to work properly. Some more learning to do, but thanks for all the advice here - much appreciated! Seems like I should look into using NINA for driving the mount too. Integrated telescope and camera control - tracking a laser pointer on the wall with a webcam.I was not using NINA to drive the mount, just to try to verify my targeting. Integrated telescope and camera control - tracking a star in M27 with digital camera. Integrated telescope and camera control overview - M31 - Adromeda galaxy Star/Object details screen - NASA skyview/DSS image and References tabĪstronomical distances measurement tool - Alioth to Phecda in Ursa Major Star/Object details screen - Spectrum Tab Ursa Major detection with grid and constellation lines M81/M82 - Bode's galaxy and Cigar galaxy plate-solving Ursa Minor detection with grid and constellation artwork UniMap - main screen - integrated telescope/camera control That will go to host this project on it's own site (capable to handle a large world wide collaboration database) and also to develop a wide spectrum of additional features.įor further details on how you can help please contact me. ASTRONOMICAL PLATE SOLVING SOFTWARE MATLAB FREEI am looking for sponsorship to support this free software. Anyone interested in helping me to test and optimize it please contact me.Īlso, I am working to add translation in twenty different languages to start with, so if you are willing to help on this please let me know. The project is to be released as a pre-alpha (concept proof) state and in order to test the the main functionality. Current pre-alpha release is only for windows, to follow with a Linux and MacOSx release as soon as I pass the beta test. ASTRONOMICAL PLATE SOLVING SOFTWARE MATLAB PORTABLEOpenGL, OpenCV, Boost and other portable libraries so that it can be compiled/released on other platforms such as Linux/MacOSX/etc. ![]() The application is written in C++/ wxWidgets (cross platform GUI library), Passing through, integrated telescope and digital/video camera control, online database/interface to work as a collaboration tool for plate solutions. Additionally, I implemented a wide range of features like plotting the asteroids path, artificial Earth satellites UniMap is a free/opensource astronomy software which I mainly developed to do the plate-solving (automated detection and sky catalog matching) for astrophotography. ![]()
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