Quote:
Originally Posted by glend
You can do a lot of fine imaging without any plate solving. Learning to get your camera onto the same spot in the sky night after night is a useful skill and does not take much time to frame up at all. Plate solving is over-rated in my opinion. It's one of those apps that people get convinced that they have to have.
|
IMO, plate solving is the best thing since sliced bread and I can't imagine why anybody wouldn't want to use it.
It enables automated image capture, offers a new way to do accurate polar alignment, measures your exact focal length and FOV (probably not the same as the specs), allows you to identify objects in your images, gives you the ability to do photometric colour calibration, determines the coordinates of cool objects in random images, and more...