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Originally Posted by rogerg
My problems with what you're trying Ben has always been that my plate solves don't work frequently enough due to lack of stars. I have all but the biggest database installed and still due to the tiny FOV I have about 80% of "randomly" positioned plate solves like the type automapper does fail due to lack of stars. I singled this out as the problem by doing manual plate solves on the same locations and on other locations. Works fine if saggitarius is in the right spot 
I ended up leaving it, and TPoint alone and going back to single point sync'ing. Hopefully one day I'll have a larger chip which will give me more stars in the plate solves.
Not sure if you've ruled out the problem being that your plate solves are failing for such a reason, as distinct from automapper not working?
Roger. |
Thats a very good point. I started with a reducer and 1500 FL and it solved every time, then I took the reducer out for 2250 FL, and got a 30% failure rate. I improved it though, by going from 10 to 20 sec exposures (on an ST10), but yes, FOV makes a big difference.