Re: Star Selection for Plate Solving

Posted by karenacollins on Feb 14, 2023; 7:25am
URL: http://astroimagej.170.s1.nabble.com/Star-Selection-for-Plate-Solving-tp2150p2151.html

Sean, the controls in the Astrometry Settings panel are the ones that might need to be tweaked. If you want more stars selected, you'd either need to reduce the "Noise Tol"  setting, maybe as low 0.10 or 0.05, depending on how faint the stars are in the images. Also, you'd of course need "Max stars" set to at least the number of stars you want considered for the plate-solve. If tweaking the above numbers fails, and you will have many of these type images in the future to solve, you can send a link to an example and I'll give it a try. If it is a one-off case, then I'd recommend just using the ones from astrometry.net.

Karen