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Originally Posted by troypiggo
Jase/Fred - How do those little Fit PCs go with plate solving? Would be running Sequence Generator Pro with local Astronomy.net, AstroTorilla type stuff.
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Without issue Troy. That has at least been my experience. I can't specifically talk to Sequence Generator Pro but I use ACP that comes with Pinpoint. I've always used Pinpoint. Its the most efficient and fastest plate solving engine available in my opinion. I've used pinpoint with GSC, USNO-A2.0 and USNO UCAC4 catalogs with the FITPC and its worked flawlessly. Each image downloaded is platesolved before data acquisition continues. Takes approximately 8-10 seconds to solve. If your pointing is way off and the plate solve algorithm needs to search a larger area, it can take some time (as with any PC) but then I would probably suggest you fix your pointing in the first place!
I've used All Sky Plate solving a couple of times as Pinpoint 6 now has this built in. It is based on John Winfield's SkySolve (
http://winfij.com/development/SkySolve/index.html) and uses Astrometry.net. The original version of SkySolve required a local reference database which requires significant grunt to compute. Using Astrometry.net results in not needing the reference database.
Based on the software you've listed, I feel certain FITPC will handle demand of this software with ease.
