using Astrometry.net with Star Analyser images

[Robin Leadbeater]

I am pleased to report that the on line astrometry system
http://nova.astrometry.net
also works with Star Analyser images, identifying the zero order images correctly
(example of the field around s5 0716+71 attached)

Robin

[Andrew Smith]

Good news Robin, I found I could plate solve my SA fields using The Sky X when we were looking at the T Tuari campaign a while back. Looking at the results it seems the "source extractor" finds it easy to reject the non stellar spectra. I was never any good at deciding which star was which so I always plate solve to get on a star as a matter of course now. It certainly speeds things up for me.

I don't know if you can script calls to Astronomy.net but if you can if is a step towards automating your system if you so desire.

I found that with the very small field of the Shelayk fiber guide head I needed to get the Nomad database with its 1.1 billion stars to ensure it solved though this is not an issue with the larger SA field.

Regards Andrew.

[Robin Leadbeater]

Hi Andrew,

Stephane Neveau reports that he has been using astrometry.net for some time on SA images uploaded to astrobin.com.
He is also looking at automation using Astrotortilla
https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/sta ... sages/3651

Robin