Hello,
here a different solver from Cédric with direct installation for Linux, Windows and Mac.
https://www.astrosurf.com/topic/185873- ... te-solver/
https://github.com/asterion-solver/asterion/releases
It is possible to simulate ASTAP ... also the capture software will think to communicate with ASTAP, but it will use Asterion.
Regards,
Jean-Francois
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Re: Asterion - Plate Solver ...
Hi,
plate solving tools seem to be coming thick and fast these days
It's nice that it simulates the Astap API (presumably the command line), as it will integrate into existing apps that way.
It's interesting that these two new solvers take a different approach compared to SharpSolve - one of my key goals with SharpSolve was a small database so that the default catalog can install with the application (it's only 54Mb to get down to about 0.4 degree FOV). The small catalog means that about 90% of the computation is building the compacted catalog into something that is actually searchable, but even with that you are likely to get sub-2s solve times (all sky) if you have a modern PC with 4-6 cores.
cheers,
Robin
plate solving tools seem to be coming thick and fast these days
It's nice that it simulates the Astap API (presumably the command line), as it will integrate into existing apps that way.It's interesting that these two new solvers take a different approach compared to SharpSolve - one of my key goals with SharpSolve was a small database so that the default catalog can install with the application (it's only 54Mb to get down to about 0.4 degree FOV). The small catalog means that about 90% of the computation is building the compacted catalog into something that is actually searchable, but even with that you are likely to get sub-2s solve times (all sky) if you have a modern PC with 4-6 cores.
cheers,
Robin