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 etc
I have at my disposal
• Skywatcher HEQ5 synscan Pro mount
• MaximDL
• Sky 6 professional software bisque
• Software bisque Tpoint
This is how I set my equipment for astrophotography.
1) Power on the mount; set skywatcher Synscan hand controller to “PC direct mode”
2) Start Sky 6 connect to the telescope with EQMOD ASCOM
3) Insert Tpoint in Sky 6 and map 6 bright stars near my target
4) Perform goto to the target
5) Use joystick to center my target
6) Start autoguiding and capturing with MaximDL
Imagine this; I take a fit image of M45 on the first night let’s call it “image1.fit”. Then I park the scope and don’t dismantle anything. The second night I want to slew the telescope exactly to M45 as it was previous night. Plate solving technique will help me do this. I capture “image2.fit”.
“Image1.fit” and “image2.fit” should be perfectly aligned to each other.
How I can do plate solving without get rid of my current software? I have heard about CCDautopilot but I am not sure… Also I have heard about Sequence Generator Pro… also not sure… All I am asking is to make plate solving in a easy way, like push here dummy
, and make use of my current software.
Any advice is welcomed!
Thank you very much
Konstantinos
www.albireo.gr