plate-solving using known objects

Posted by Laura Watson on Oct 30, 2017; 3:36pm
URL: http://astroimagej.170.s1.nabble.com/plate-solving-using-known-objects-tp884.html

Hi Karen,

Is there a way to plate-solve an image by giving it the designations/coordinates of a couple of known objects in the field?

The problem that I am trying to solve is this: I have an image of an asteroid that contains enough objects to plate solve, but the asteroid is overexposed. I want to apply this result to an image with a shorter exposure, in which the asteroid is not overexposed, but only two or three other objects are visible. Unfortunately there is telescope drift between the images, so I cannot simply keep apply the WCS from the longer exposure to the shorter exposure.

Best,
Laura