Plate Solving to Label Starlight Live Images

[Bill S]

I have been having a go with some plate solving programmes to see if I could use one to identify and label objects. I've finally settled on All Sky Platesolver for now. (See http://www.astrogb.com/)  Here are some images from a few days ago.

 

 

I decided to look at some images from the past including this one of M33 from a while back.

So, I find I've managed to capture objects that I had not realised were showing up.

Note that I converted the png files to jpg before solving. (ASP does not work on png files and I found jpg files seemed to work better than fits.)

May be of interest to others.

 

 

[Merlin66]

+1 for ASPS

I use fits from my camera, maybe need to look at some jpeg's......