PA and plate-solve with narrow FOV
Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2018 9:55 am
I've rushed ahead and purchased a pro license without carefully considering the FOV requirements.
I think I'm doing things the hard way but for reference, the setup I was hoping to get working was PA/plate-solving with a 102mm F7 refractor and an off-axis cam. FOV is 0.4° x 0.3°so it's far too narrow for what SharpCap is supposed to work with but would there be a way (or consider it a feature request) to run the PA algorithm using downloaded astrometry.net star indices e.g., from AstroTortilla, if they were found to be present?
I could bite the bullet and buy a guide/finder scope but it would mean my off-axis gear would be useless unless I bought a second cam for OAG or pulled the cam off the guidescope and attempted to attach and focus it to the OAG. Neither of those options are especially attractive.
I think I'm doing things the hard way but for reference, the setup I was hoping to get working was PA/plate-solving with a 102mm F7 refractor and an off-axis cam. FOV is 0.4° x 0.3°so it's far too narrow for what SharpCap is supposed to work with but would there be a way (or consider it a feature request) to run the PA algorithm using downloaded astrometry.net star indices e.g., from AstroTortilla, if they were found to be present?
I could bite the bullet and buy a guide/finder scope but it would mean my off-axis gear would be useless unless I bought a second cam for OAG or pulled the cam off the guidescope and attempted to attach and focus it to the OAG. Neither of those options are especially attractive.