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Plate solving for location


Phillyo

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Hi all,

My mount has been sent away for repair, so in the mean time I'm thinking of using my Astrotrac and being a bit more portable, however I have a question regarding plate solving. With my motorised mount I can plate solve (Using PinPoint through SGPro) to slew accurately to my target. Obviously the Astrotrac can't do that, however I was wondering if there was a way to integrate Pinpoint or SGPro with Stellarium or CdC or another planetarium type software so that I could use it with my Astrotrac for finding targets?

For example.

1. Set up my kit and point my lens where I think my target is by a rough star hopping.

2. Take a picture in SGPro and plate solve.

3. Use CdC (or whichever) to display where my lens/camera is ACTUALLY pointing

4. Manually move the lens

5. Repeat steps 2 - 4 until i'm on target?

Thank you,

Phil.

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