Corpze Posted July 13, 2015 Report Share Posted July 13, 2015 Hi, quick question; Is it possible to setup a local copy of astrometry.net instead of pinpoint like it is in Sequence generator pro? Regards /Daniel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lukepower Posted July 16, 2015 Report Share Posted July 16, 2015 Daniel, you can set up astrometry.net in local, but Sequencer won't use it right now. By the way, it is - in my experience - usually slower than Pinpoint as long as the FOV is halfway there. If your pointing is completely off, Astrometry works better.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corpze Posted July 17, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 17, 2015 Daniel, you can set up astrometry.net in local, but Sequencer won't use it right now. By the way, it is - in my experience - usually slower than Pinpoint as long as the FOV is halfway there. If your pointing is completely off, Astrometry works better.... You say "right now" - is there something on its way? Well, i havent used Ponpoint so i cant compare the speed, but is it worth the money? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lukepower Posted July 17, 2015 Report Share Posted July 17, 2015 Well, I dunno if Philipp Keller will ever implement Astrometry.net instead of Pinpoint. I actually treid both, here is what I would say about them: Pinpoint: Very fast if the pointing is halfway correct (say, not off by more then twice the FOV) Doesn't need a lot of resources (basically only the catalogue) Can use it for astrometry in all forms, supported by most software packages Astrometry.net: Relatively slow - well, slower than Pinpoint when the coordinates are not off by alot. If the pointing is completely off, Astrometry.net will give you a good result after some time, whereas Pinpoint will fail Needs quite some data: You have to download their database, which - depending on your FOV and resolution might be quite some GBs of data Is computationally intensive Is free I actually used Astrometry.net for first pointings when my system was far off from where it should have been, otherwise I am just happy with PinPoint. If you are going to do some research in astrometry (comets, asteroids and so on), then IMHO it is well worth the money. Astrometry.net might be a good alternative, as would a similar package from Planewave be. It all depends on the support coming from Sequence.exe to use those tools... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lukepower Posted July 22, 2015 Report Share Posted July 22, 2015 Edit: I just found out that there would be another free sky solving app around called "Elbrus" (http://www.astrosurf.com/pulgar/elbrus/elbrusin.htm). I am gonna give it a try, it seems it is an option in Sequence Generator Pro so it might be a good and free alternative to PinPoint Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corpze Posted July 22, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 22, 2015 Yep, how ever, this isn't a alternative to pinpoint in Autoslew? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lukepower Posted July 22, 2015 Report Share Posted July 22, 2015 Not right now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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