Plate solving the moon?

[furrysocks2]

Is there such a thing??

[Zakalwe]

How do you mean? To identify the craters?

If there is, then I've never heard of it.

Just download this and you can easily identify features. There's lots of additional, higher-resolution add-ons that will increase the resolution.

http://www.ap-i.net/avl/en/download

 

[furrysocks2]

Thanks for the link - I hadn't seen that.

 

Yeah, I took some random webcam shots last month through my dob and manually put this together:

The moon's not that expansive and I'll learn my way around in time, just wondered if there was anything out there to localise an image and annotate.

[Jonk]

Maybe not a plate solver, but MoonPanoramaMaker certainly automates a lot of it once you've given it a start point and FOV etc.

[furrysocks2]

1 hour ago, Jonk said:

Maybe not a plate solver, but MoonPanoramaMaker certainly automates a lot of it once you've given it a start point and FOV etc.

Thanks, I'll take a look.

[iapa]

In interesting idea, maybe, is an app that would lock on a feature of the moon, and let you build a mosaic around that feature.

Main thing to overcome would be seeing I expect? After that, I expect it's effectively plate solving using a datable of images.

Simple when you phrase it like that

[Jonk]

That is what MoonPanoramaMaker effectively does.

[furrysocks2]

Focus of this article I think is spacecraft descent and collision avoidance, but this sort of thing...

http://www.intechopen.com/books/matlab-a-fundamental-tool-for-scientific-computing-and-engineering-applications-volume-1/detection-of-craters-and-its-orientation-on-lunar

 

I'd love to have something like this produce an annotated live field of view on screen, or send coordinates to a moon map app in the same way as you can push plate solved coords to Stellarium, etc. My Dob will hopefully end up on an eq platform but otherwise undriven.

[furrysocks2]