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Originally Posted by RickS
Is Aladin going to be of any use, Dave? You can drop a plate solved image into it and then overlay with any of a bazillion catalogs including NOMAD. I find it useful for identifying very faint little galaxies.
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Rick, you're a genius!
This is *exactly* what I was after - I didn't expect that there would be a free tool available that would work so well. All the faint dots and smudges in my long exposures are now clickable with magnitude data. Itch, scratched
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Originally Posted by mithrandir
That's only step 1. If you follow all the instructions in the CdC page you need about 200GB temp space and the final catalog is 48GB. If you use Window's folder/file compression the final catalog only needs about 28GB.
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Yep, not a worry. Luckily, disk space is probably the cheapest piece of astrophotography gear
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Originally Posted by mithrandir
You'll probably find if you try to go to mag beyond 18 you won't be able to use a FOV beyond a degree or maybe two. CdC seems to have a limit on how many stars it can label at once. When Patrick gets the 64bit Windows compile working again (the compiler has a bug) it might be able to show more.
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Shouldn't be a problem... my camera only has a FOV of 40' x 30'. Anyhow, I'll probably only use CdC + NOMAD while away from a fast/cheap internet connection. Thanks!