Plate Solving

[ozzzy]

Do I need to install AstroTortilla or can I use the already installed local astrometry.net plate solver.

[admin]

Download the latest pre-release and use native ASTAP plate solving and centering instead. AstroTortilla  is old and no longer supported.

 

[ssa2294]

In order to get Astrotortilla working with my scope & camera (ED80 & d5600) I had some help adding additional commandline parameters. Do we need to do the same? Is there an ASTAP config file we need to edit? Reason I ask is that I have yet to successfully get this to work. I can pull the target from CdC and slew, but centering has never had any effect or done anything. It does take a photo that is sure, and while my ASCOM mount is connected it never once has actually moved the mount. I still have Astrotortilla installed and have still been successfully in getting that to center properly targets. ASTAP does seem to solve faster for what thats worth (or at least I believe it is. I seem to remember when running ASTAP from command line having to specify certain parameters, but I do not know how these could be included in with BYN

[admin]

Did you download and installed the ASTAP catalogues?

[admin]

The parameters used are very conservative.  

It needs the RA/DEC for the connected telescope... and the following ASTAP paramters are used...

-s 500 // Max number of stars
-r 180 // search radius

Regards,

[ssa2294]

I have a curious question. I took some images, opened up ASTAP program to solve. After repeated tries it failed selecting Star Alignment & Astrometric Alignment, but eventually I was having success selecting Manual One Star. Would the settings within ASTAP effect BYN, which I assume is using CLI to run.