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Platesolving images and annotating star magnitude and parallax. And program to blink through FITS.


MichaelBibby

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I know that Pix Insight has a plugin or script called 'Image Annotation' that can be used to indicate the magnitude and parallax (i.e., 'distance') of each star in an image using the GAIA survey data. I don't have PI, is there any other way of getting this functionality?
And while I'm here, can someone recommend a (free) program to 'blink' through my FITS (to look for satellite trails, meteors, asteroids, etc.)?

 
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ASTAP is multifunctional. Will blink, solve, stack, annotate deepsky/comets/asteroids. I don't think it has a GAIA plug-in data set so parallax isn't a thing I've come accross in ASTAP.

It will also do photometry, both data base and measured.Plus a load of other stuff, for free!!

Here is a zoom into a deep image of mine with measure magnitudes annotated. I've left the tools menu open so you can some some of the other function.

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Can I ask what you'd be using the parallax data for?

 

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3 hours ago, Paul M said:

ASTAP is multifunctional. Will blink, solve, stack, annotate deepsky/comets/asteroids. I don't think it has a GAIA plug-in data set so parallax isn't a thing I've come accross in ASTAP.

It will also do photometry, both data base and measured.Plus a load of other stuff, for free!!

Here is a zoom into a deep image of mine with measure magnitudes annotated. I've left the tools menu open so you can some some of the other function.

image.thumb.png.0a0c726155830e39498704faa49f815b.png

Can I ask what you'd be using the parallax data for?

 


Thanks, I'll have a play with it. The reason I want to get parallax information is to add the depth dimension to my images, just to explore them in more detail and get a better sense of what I am looking at.

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