Is there any software that analyses your image capature capabilites over all of sky?

g__day (Matthew) · #1 Yesterday, 09:45 PM

Just wondering - has anyone heard or used any image processing software that can analyse all your imaging data and give you a map of where your equipment shoots better or worse over the whole night sky?

I presume pointing and tracking errors in my rig are mostly random - and more or less unavoidable - until I wondered but are they? Is there any software folk know of that can inspect all your images and where in the night sky you were pointing - score them and then present you a map of is your system consistent or does it have much better and worse zones of the sky to shoot at (indicating I would suspect a gear problem)?

Just trying to tune and eck out everything I can from my gear - and wondering is there anything that can take my thousands of images and look to see if some part of the night sky give me much better or worse areas to image in?

Many thanks,

Matthew

g__day (Matthew) · #2 Today, 08:39 AM

Slight divergence from this - as I am expecting the answer will be mostly no - though you could export select PixInsight data to a text file then run that through a specific ChatGPT script to get the answers.

I stumbled across this video - which has really excellent insights on how to best image galaxies!

Galaxy Studio: Producing World Class Galaxy Images

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1XBon7x6kio

Dennis · #3 Today, 10:29 AM

T-Point and ProTrack in The Sky X Pro slews your mount/scope to many points in the celestial sphere (number of points is user defined, from say 20 to 200+), takes a say, 10 sec exposure, plate solves that image and then compares the results to where the mount “thinks” it is pointing versus actual pointing.

When you apply those corrections to the mount, pointing accuracy and tracking accuracy are much improved over the uncalibrated mount.

Wit my C11 at 2800mm, I have been able to image at 60 secs unguided with no evidence of star training and a couple of experimental 180 sec exposures looked just as good.

This is for the SB MX+ Mount.

Dennis.