A set of pointandclick tools visual pinpoint for fast mass plate solving and surveylevel asteroid and supernova hunting are included. Basically can you run the program, give it a ccd image and it tell you what you were looking at, or does it need to be on line so it has a rough starting position from the mount to use to search and compare against its database. If the analysis is successful it is possible to calculate the right accession ra and declination dec of the image center which tells where exactly is pointing the telescope, image orientation, resolution and etc. Ive tried elbrus, ive installed and all the associated. Three queries if i may i am using some images to try plate solving via elbrus. In this astrophotography tutorial im going to show you how to setup platesolving in sequence generator pro sgp. Astap is a free stacking and astrometric solver program for deep sky images.
Im hoping that there is a bright spark out there who can get me on the right track with this. Russias homegrown elbrus processor and pc would be fantastic in 1999. The sgp video is a few years old and refers to software settings that have been moved. Not that i have got sgp and plate solving working on my system yet, but i have had that problem with at in the past. Specifies how large of a region should be used when attempting to plate solve. Elbrus set up tutorial plate solving main sequence. You have a lot of equipment and sometimes it is difficult to get it all working together. The images have fits headers inc radec confirmed in sgp. I tried it all out on the night sky last night and sgp worked perfectly for all functions except for plat. Fits binary table, containing a bintable of detected objects, with x and y pixel positions in d double or e float columns, with one object per row. Plate solving sharpcap lunar, planetary, solar and. Plate solving notes plate solving is a technique that measures precisely where the telescope is pointing by taking a ccd image and then using various pattern matching techniques, matches the stars in the image to a given star catalog.
Revolutionize your image capture with plate solving, auto focus, equipment profiles, customizable user interface with dockable panels, and hunderds of other unique and powerful features. I took some images of r car, and i am certian it is sitting directly in the middle of the field. Clu that was the first clu implementation in the u. Failed to plate solve image elbrus failed to plate solver. Extreme widefield setups will require the use of higher magnitude stars. Brings up a settings dialog that will allow you to choose. I have elbrus downloaded and installed via the sgp download module which sets up elbrus automatically but now i dont know what to do with it. The sequence generator pro trial is fully featured and expires in 45 days. On completion snap a piccy process it in elbrus and does elbrus issue the goto to centre the shot then you repeat snap, plate solve and issue corrections until youre dead centre. More sgp woes imaging discussion stargazers lounge. Plate solving setup with sequence generator pro and elbrus. Pinpoint connects automatically to for allsky plate solving, very useful for lost telescopes. Intel x86 a complete, systemlevel implementation with a software dynamic binary translation virtual machine, similar to transmeta crusoe.
Hi all,anyone has used this and actually has the installer file. After reading a lot about the elbrus on the sgpro mailing list, i wanted to try it. There was no problem in elbrus quickly solving for the position, no matter where i was in the. A must see for astrophotographers wanting to fully au. Astrom, white stars, as bilinear method but if there is an unbalance between the 4 red, 4 blue or 2 green pixels it uses luminance only. Astrometry tools and the aladin sky atlas by peter campbellburns. Pointcraft is set of apt features powered by the plate solving technology.
Astronomy software plate solving and telescope control. Ive been using sgp for a couple of years now, but ive never installed plate solving. Downloaded it, installed it as administrator, set elbrus as my plate solver in sgpro and entered resolution arcsec pixel and location. There is a yahoo site if you have any questions or you can pm me if you want. Astroc, colour for saturated stars, as bilinear method but for saturated stars the program tries reconstruct the star colour. I downloaded already all the other files catalog, but i still the main installation files. Elbrus is another interesting plate solving application which was brought to. All sky plate solver is a free software, designed to automatically detect the celestial coordinates of fits and jpeg files captured by your ccd camera reflex it uses the engine of the free local on cygwin for windows if you consider it useful, you can download, install, point a random part of the sky, get a frame and synchronize your mount. Astrotortilla is a helper application that brings plate solving to your astrophotography workflow. Russian elbrus 8s and upcoming elbrus 16s cpu showing 1149 of 149 messages. Hello, i have been using your trial version for a while and i like it a lot and there are many chances that i will buy the license but i have a problem when it comes to solving the fields. With the press of a single button, sharpcap can automatically correct your mounts position to ensure that your goto target is centered in the frame. I was going to put my post in the software section but thought it might.
Over the years we have been frustrated by a distinct lack of key features that make life easier under stars. Engine, frontend installer, license, external access. Unimap is a freeopensource astronomy software which i mainly developed to do the plate solving automated detection and sky catalog matching for astrophotography. When i right click and select solve, it doesnt see the radec and asks me fo. Your image that you were trying to solve is very out of focus and im sure that will be the problem in the solver. I thought sgp could use a downloaded database like ucac4.
Page 1 of 2 sgp plate solving without internet connection. I found the pdf manual to be very helpful in getting all of the basic settings. I have been able to upload images with the wizard and quick load but cannot get the images to plate solve. Youll need to download the apm and ucac3 catalogs and.
Before the detailed information lets give some usage scenarios in order to show what it is possible to do. How to setup platesolving and an automatic meridian flip sgp. Select the range which matches with the value of brightest stars. Using a local server for plate solving is great as it doesnt require me to have an active internet connection important for star parties. The only plate solvers listed in sgp are plate solve2, pinpoint, elbrus, and. This enables you to automatically and quickly do things like. Specified the magnitude of the stars to use for plate solving.
Plate solving is the engine of many scientific studies for. Your efforts and now success has reinspired me to have another look at sgp and plate solving. Learn about plate solving and how to use it to improve the pointing accuracy of your telescope mount. Stacking program, astrometric plate solver, fits file viewer. It analyzes a sky image with a few stars, and calculates the coordinates of the image centre. Russias homegrown elbrus processor and pc would be. Built in integration to plate solving applications is a powerful new feature in sharpcap 3. Plate solving is a image analysis that detects the stars and then tries to identify them using catalogs of know stars. Planewave interface 3 pwi 3 control software for irf90 hedrick focuser and deltat accessories on cdk12.
The following translators were developed in a few years, by a small team of less than 10 young software engineers. The base of the shape recognizing algorithm of elbrus is the element named distance. I was going to put my post in the software section but thought it might get missed there. Is a freeware but downloadable only in the yahoogroups mailing list, and it seems the owner of the list does not reply for days. Magnitude 20 starts is the default and is sufficient for most applications. Elbrus, a mysterious russian startup, claimed to have taken the same approach. It is available to download as java program which can be run as. There is a 45 day free trial so you can use it with your system and make sure it all works. I am trying to get sequence generator pro working and have installed elbrus as the plate solver.
Elbrus for plate solving astrophotography diaries of a rookie. Used not only within acp expert and acp observatory control but also many other astronomical programs for both telescope pointing and scientific position measurements astrometry. Elbrus plate solving imaging discussion stargazers. It is the segment of big circle on the celestial sphere that joins two stars a and b. The plate solving is via elbrus which is free and doesnt need an internet connection.
Anyway, i do most of my imaging from remote sites so i am trying to figure out how to plate solve. Problems with plate solve elbrus elbrus installer main. With plate solving, astrotortilla can on its own figure out where your telescope is pointed. Upon expiration, the pro version will automatically convert to the lite version. Can someone please point me to a thread or a tutorial that i can use to work through. It uses plate solving to tell exactly where the telescope is pointed in the night sky by analyzing stars from an image and calculating the exact coordinates. Elbrus settings and fits headers plate solving main. This program can view and stack astronomical fits images using an astrometric solution or star alignment. The first night i used this i had the scope pointed toward m109 and. Steve bisque explains using the skyx extended data base to plate solve, sync and complete calibration runs. Plate solving is an advanced technique where the telescope will slew to exactly where it previously was to line up with the stars in a shot perfectly, so as to continue a shot or start again a new night, or multiple nights etci have at my disposal skywatcher heq5 synscan pro mount maximdl sky.
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