Astrotortilla - goto calib, plate solving, polar alignment

[troypiggo]

Anyone tried Astrotortilla (http://sourceforge.net/p/astrotortilla/home/Home/)? Stumbled across it tonight. From the website:

[peter_4059]

Sounds a bit like sequence generator.

[mswhin63]

The program is based on Astrometry.net plate solving. I use this site for some of my images but have had very little success. I so far have had very little success getting it to work on my PC as well but still trying.

[Vostok]

Greetings from the AstroTortilla team in Finland!

The new http://nova.astrometry.net/ service is indeed quite unreliable. Their old web user interface for solving does a much better job but isn't open to everyone anymore.

Running Astrometry.net under Windows requires Cygwin but is a real pain to compile and get in working order. We host a custom software repository that provides compiled binaries working in Cygwin with no hassle. The AstroTortilla installer is by far the easiest way to install Astrometry.net locally, even if you'd not use AstroTortilla. Just be sure to read the Getting Started PDF before installing to make sure it won't fail.

We'd be happy to hear if you get AstroTortilla working down under!

Lauri

PS. Now you can try out APT for camera control, too.

[mswhin63]

Thanks Lauri, I was wanting to get it working specifically for APT. I hope to get it sorted one day. I have the Indices I need for my scope/camera combination.