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Old 13-07-2015, 05:47 PM
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Pretty sure it just means that it sends it off to astrometry.net and it gets run through their servers.
No, it solves them locally and in not much more time than a regular image link. It does not require much in the way of resources either. Just the use of a special datafile that is a few gigabytes in size. It works extremely well.

By the way, TheSkyX image link apparently doesn't handle fields of view over 10 degrees wide, but the all-sky image link can be made to automatically crop images so that this isn't a problem. They do need to be FITS format images though.

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