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Originally Posted by gregbradley
As far as 6 points for PA I would think that is highly inadequate. Even just fitting the data and getting rid of outliers you see the suggestions for the PA adjustment change.
I found I had to take an image in CCDsoft then insert WCS research and it plate solves and gives the north angle. I then added that into the automapper default settings. Then it plate solved. It would fail without that north angle. Its done that twice now where it would not get the north angle when you press the get button next to north angle. So if you are not doing that try getting it through CCDSoft. I take it you have CCDsoft server settings turned on per the manual.
Greg.
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The manual seems to indicate that 6 points is enough for getting PA. Several other people have indicated that too. With just the basic terms I have got it quite close. And; the final PA results are very similar to the 6 points results. Still 89 seconds away from the poll though in the alt and 7 seconds in azimuth.
I hardly ever get a plate solve in CCDsoft under insert WSC. Sometimes I might jag it and it gets the north angle, but most times it just will not play. I suspect this is part of the problem really. I set all the parameters correct, although on my version of the sky and CCDsoft some of the things that need checking are not present. It all seems to talk to each other though, which is weird. Everything is running in administrator mode. I will try this for now and see what happens. Maybe it is worth getting skyX and the new Tpoint version. I have heard this plate solves better anyway.