Re: Feature request: Add ASTAP plate solve option
Posted by
karenacollins on
Mar 03, 2021; 7:08am
URL: http://astroimagej.170.s1.nabble.com/Feature-request-Add-ASTAP-plate-solve-option-tp1508p1510.html
I see additional information now that suggests there is a
programmatic interface. We will investigate this further as a medium
term priority.
Karen
On 3/3/2021 2:02 AM, karenacollins [via
AstroImageJ] wrote:
We have recorded this feature request. From a quick glance, I
didn't spot a programmatic interface that would allow AIJ to
communicate directly with ASTAP. We will dig further later. In the
meantime, it would seem that ASTAP could be used independently of
AIJ to solve images, and then the plate solved images could be
loaded into AIJ for further analysis. Does that approach currently
work?
Karen
On 3/2/2021 12:08 PM, basilr [via
AstroImageJ] wrote:
I
have found the ASTAP plate solve routine is MUCH faster than
using Astrometry.net (using a local install of ANSVER). Windows
10 OS. ASTAP frequently solves in less than 5 sec, while the
same image can take 30 - 60s with Astrometry.net (even with fine
tuning the constrain parameters). The ASTAP program can be found
here:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/astap-program/ Thanks for
your consideration.