Localized window resized for easy editing of platesolver settings. Plate solving is the action of resolving what you see in the sky to match where your computer controlled mount thinks it is in the sky. I could at times get astrotortilla to take an image, then it would display solving, but almost immediatel it came back with no a solution after about 1. This is one of the best programs in my astrophotography arsenal for the moment. Setting up and using astrotortilla for plate solving. It is however a program that once you start using, you will not regret having spent the time to install it and set it up. Plate solving sharpcap lunar, planetary, solar and. Pointcraft and platesolving astro photography tool. From what i recall sharpcap ignors the astrotortilla settings and passes the info to it for solving. Did not think that this software was suppoted, so downloaded nebulosity 4. This enables you to automatically and quickly do things like.
Plate solving sharpcap lunar, planetary, solar and deep sky. Unfortunately i fail do to that with sgp and ansvr and i dont understand why. I had it up and running in about 20 minutes after i downloaded the 4100 set of plate solves. I recently started using sharpcap pro and am trying to configure my equipment to do plate solving. Ansvr uses the same plate solve indexes as astrotortilla which are the local version of. All sky plate solver is a free software, designed to automatically detect the celestial coordinates of fits and jpeg files captured by your ccd camera reflex. What other plate solving software tools do you use.
Episode 22 live astro tortilla plate solving demonstration. I pointed at the owl nebula, told it to do its thing. Howto setup byebyn and astrotortilla for plate solving. A few days ago i came across a utility called astrotortilla henceforth abbreviated to at. Years ago i started out using astrotortilla to plate solve my images. Contribute to sevengramastrotortilla development by creating an account on. Backyardnikon is built using the same platform as our flagship product backyardeos. The beta version of our web service is operating at nova. Images can be calibrated through a userfriendly web service, on the flickr photosharing site, or by a downloadable software package for the computersavvy web. This software is delivered asis, with no expressed or implied guarantees of being fit for any purpose.
If you use sharpcap pro, you can set up plate solving and it will use a local astrometry server to correct. Do not select a more detailed camera in astrotortilla camera setup dialog unless you encounter problems with autodetect after an. Plate solving using astrotortilla and sharpcap the. Backyardnikon will control your nikon dslr camera and deep sky. Plate solving is a image analysis that detects the stars and then tries to identify them using catalogs of know stars. However no matter what i try i cannot get it to solve using any pictures i have taken. In this astrophotography tutorial im going to show you how to setup plate solving in sequence generator pro sgp.
Setting up platesolving with sharpcap astronomy forums. If the analysis is successful it is possible to calculate the right accession ra and declination dec of the image center which tells where exactly is pointing the telescope, image orientation, resolution and etc. Get this right the first time, as its a pain in the butt to correct afterward. Astrotortilla is an incredibly useful tool, with a confusing setup. Selecting the right parity will make the solving process run faster, but if in doubt just try both. A wide range of features makes sharpcap suitable for many types of astroimaging including planetary, lunar, solar, deep sky and eaa electronically assisted astronomy. The actual solving is made by external programs then their results are used by apt. Plate solving discussions software stargazers lounge. It is software tailor made to control your nikon dslr camera. The second option to help speed up plate solving is rather to ensure that if it is going to fail, that it fails quicker rather than keeping you waiting.
You can use astrotortilla to move you mount after plate solving to the correct ra and dec. Sharpcap is an easytouse and powerful astronomy camera capture tool. Best of all, astrotortilla is completely free and works wonders for plate solving. This command instructs astrotortilla to sort the stars in order of brightest first, therefore allowing astrotortilla to optimise the plate solving process as it starts with the brightest stars in your image. The images obtained from a camera are evaluated by a plate solving application, and initially a wrapper for is implemented. I do run ascom, and my capture software is astroart. Eos maxim dl astro photography tool any other software via image files. If you point a digital camera at the sky and submit the jpeg, it probably has negative parity. Help migrating from astrotortilla to plate solving with. So i downloaded and installed the software making sure i followed the tutorial advice on the lightvortex web site. I quick introduction into using astro tortilla for plate solving. Setting up and using astrotortilla for plate solving light vortex. I would prefer something offline, like astrotortilla, but if an internet connection is required.
I wouldnt run an imaging session without plate solving when using my c14 as the fov is so small that normal gotos often just miss the target. Net index files between asps and astrotortilla check this topic in the apt. Plate solving is the engine of many scientific studies for. Live views of objects in space, from planets to nebulae. Currently i use eqmod with stellarium to control my mount and phd to guide. Advanced goto by altaz offset to use the astrotortilla polar alignment routine.
All sky plate solver must have for beginners posted in beginning and intermediate imaging. Plate solving with the use of narrowband filters will most definitely require changing advanced settings depending on the area of sky youre imaging. Installing astrotortilla for plate solving sharpcap forums. Astronomy shed uk astronomy forum view topic astrotortilla. If you find this too involved then try all sky plate solver it uses the same back end as astrotortilla.
What worries me more is why i cant successfully plate solve via the site. I use astrotortilla which can use bye to take a picture and then plate. Getting a product like the cdk into the hands of serious imagers and amateur astronomers has been a shared vision of hedrick and haberman for many years. Usually i need to blind solve first then ps2 takes over for fine tuning target centring. How to setup platesolving and an automatic meridian flip. Beside the drop down menu you can also click the plate solve sync icon in the sharpcap mount control. All sky plate solver is a free software, designed to automatically detect the celestial coordinates of fits and jpeg files captured by your ccd camera reflex it uses the engine of the free local on cygwin for windows if you consider it useful, you can download, install, point a random part of the sky, get a frame and synchronize your mount. It would plate solve with no problem using local however i. Once i am done with sgp which i only use for plate solving now i. With at it is at that calls bye or other software to acquire an image to plate solve. Blind plate solving with all sky plate solver made by giovanni benintende in both dslr and ccd modes. Plate solving is not something that appeared today, it rather exists for many years in professional and semiprofessional astronomy software, but my personal feeling is that it has just entered a phase where the overall process, setup and the combination of needed software has become easy enough to be widely used. Anymore, and it will take a long time to plate solve.
Planewave instruments was founded in 2006 by richard hedrick and joseph haberman, two former telescope engineers at celestron. Plate solving with platesolve2 made by planewave instruments in both dslr and ccd modes. I have yet to choose my capture software, backyard eos, apt or nebulosity astrotortilla has the ability to not only plate solve locally to verify where i think im pointing by using a very short sub exposure, but also control my mount via ascom. Built in integration to plate solving applications is a powerful new feature in sharpcap 3. At least one of these tools must be installed and detected by sharpcap for plate solving to be available. Let me know in comments or email if these work for you so i can learn andor adjust the post to fit more people. Its intuitive user interface caters to the amateur and seasoned astronomers alike. My choice now for planetarium software is the excellent and free. Before imaging thru astrotortilla, take at least one exposure with your imaging software and ensure the field is in reasonable focus. Im trying to understand how to configure plate solving.
Astrotortilla is a wrapper around common astrophotography tools intended to automate basic tasks such as polar alignment and. I just getting my hand back in for the winter season, and i thought i should give astrotortilla at a go. You had to watch videos, go to tutorial sites and have a bit of luck to make it work from one night to the next. At is a windows wrapper utility that combines cygwin, the plate solver, ascom mount control and external cameraimaging software into a onestop utility that wraps together software. The astrotortilla setup uses these numbers to download the corresponding databases used in solving your image. Plate solving with astrotortilla in both dslr and ccd modes. With plate solving, astrotortilla can on its own figure out where your telescope is pointed. What astrotortilla does when measuring polar alignment just from my observation of it working is it takes a picture of the sky where your telescope is aimed, identifies where that point is, the slews the scope a prescribed amount on one axis and then takes a second picture of the sky and identifies precisely where that is in the sky. Click capture and solve to start the plate solving process.
Thats why i gathered some information, and stuffed it. It was a cool program but took too long to setup and get working right. Click next through the screens and allow it to download the necessary files. On the downside, the gui cannot be described as highly intuitive, so rookies may need to invest extra time and effort into decoding the programs features. All sky plate solver must have for beginners beginning. You dont need the internet for the platesolve itself. Currently sharpcap supports three plate solving tools. Astrotortilla is a wrapper around common astrophotography tools intended to automate basic tasks such as polar alignment and goto correction. I am not sure if sharpcap has autodetected astrotortilla does anyone know what. Increasing the sigma, reduces the number of objects identified.
It is purposely built with astrophotography in mind. Howto setup byebyn and astrotortilla for plate solving howtos. This software is delivered asis, with no expressed or implied guarantees of being fit for. Plate solving and goto with astrotortilla discussions. My mount is an explore scientific exosii pmc8 that is ascom compatible.
Plate solving using astrotortilla and sharpcap plate solving is the action of resolving what you see in the sky to match where your computer controlled mount thinks it is in the sky. It can be used with dedicated astronomy cameras, webcams and usb frame grabbers. I have used astrotortilla for a few years and find that pretty straight forward, so i thought using ansvr might be the simpliest way to go, but the help section on sgp seems to want me to use either pinpoint, elbrus or platesolve 2 with astrometry. Download astrotortilla automate several astrophotography tasks, such as equatorial mount, polar alignment and target centering in order to solve certain image problems caused by misalignment of. Setting up and using astrotortilla for plate solving the equipment i am using is an atlas pro mount, orion 6 astrograph reflector, and canon t6 dslr the software i am running is eqmod, stellarium w stellariumscope, backyardeos, and astrotortilla. For those transitioning from using a handset to computer controlled, see this step as being roughly the same topic as a 1star align. After my last video, there was some confusion about plate solving. Platesolving is a image analysis that detects the stars and then tries to identify. With the press of a single button, sharpcap can automatically correct your mounts position to ensure that your goto target is centered in the frame. Plate solving using astrotortilla and sharpcap scroll down to see more content plate solving is the action of resolving what you see in the sky to match where your computer controlled mount thinks it is in the sky. Howto setup byebyn and astrotortilla for plate solving be as specific as possible when reporting issues and always include the full version number of the application you are using and your exact camera model. Astrotortilla supports setting binning and filters for capturing.
I heard about this program on various astrophotography list servers, so i decided to try it out. Astrotortilla is one of those programs that may seem overly complicated to set up and start using, hence this short tutorial for those interested. Planewave interface 3 pwi 3 control software for irf90 hedrick focuser and deltat accessories on cdk12. Astrofotografie plate solving overview blog dietrich strato. All in all, astrotortilla comes with a smart suite of settings for helping you solve several problems which are related to misalignment of goto telescopes. For those unaware, plate solving is a process by which software checks your. Finally after months of waiting for a clear night i get one only to have sgpro failing to plate solve then to top it all off the wife locked me out i so frustrated ive had sgpro working fine with my meade 10 inch scope with f6. Sharpcap polar alignment, plate solve, crab nebula and. Sharpcap will look in the default installation locations for these programs and use the first one it finds. Astrotortilla is a helper application that brings plate solving to your astrophotography workflow. With plate solving, astrotortilla can on its own figure out where your. Using 2x binning is recommended over platesolver downscaling for quicker solving. If you have a fits image, it probably has positive parity. Plate solving with astrotortilla discussions software.
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