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Old 02-07-2017, 11:05 AM
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Darrell, as Rob mentioned, the next breakthrough step is to get plate solving working. As you are already using Sequence Generator, this is not difficult. Platesolve2 is already included - you just need to download the APM and/or UCAC3PS database files.

With plate solving you don't need any alignment stars and you can automatically position your FOV within pixels to the same place night after night. In addition to Platesolve2, SGP also works with Astrometry.net blind solving. You can set up an offline version of this to use where you don't have internet connectivity (eg Astrofest). Here's the link to the installer:

http://adgsoftware.com/ansvr/


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