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ASTAP - Astrometric Stacking Program I recently used ASTAP to stack fits file and the software is great! I compared ASTAP stacks and processing results and found the stack to be very good. If you are using StarTools, the ASTAP works very well... ASTAP is a free software and in my opinion provides very good clean data. For a StarTools user, ASTAP, may be a better stacking software to use a stack that is 'close' to the photons. The link to ASTAP is[url=http:// http://www.hnsky.org/astap_setup.exe.] : AS[/url] Compare these 2 images, first image is ASTAP stack and the second one is DSS. DSS is fine, however, for StarTools, ASTAP may provide a stack that is simple to process in StarTools. This M78 image is work in progress as I need to get more data, ASTAP for me using |
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Thank you for sharing. I have some questions for ASTAP users: can it plate-solve and then sync the resulting coordinates to the mount via ASCOM? Can it get the coordinates from the mount via ASCOM before it does plate-solving so a blind solving would not be necessary? Here I mean just doing these by ASTAP itself, without relying on any other programs (except for ASCOM of course). |
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Wei-Hao, I think ASTAP now is getting very popular as the plate solving component for automated acquisition systems like NINA, SGP... I've used ATSAP instead of PS2 for a while already. -Min |
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Hi Min, Thanks. I don't use any of the astro-app for acquisition, as they cannot control my camera. What I need is a direct communication between ASTAP (or any reasonably good plate solver) and ASCOM, without things like NINA, SGP, etc sitting in the middle. I would like to know if anyone has tried something like this, or just know whether it should work. |
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Best easiest Soloution is to ask Hans he posts on most forums and replies via email too swiftly. https://sourceforge.net/p/astap-program/discussion/ Wei-Hao Wang: |
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Been using ASTAP for quite some time now. It's blazing fast to solve images, even on a raspberry pi! For stacking mosaics and/or multiple nights with not so good data (e.g. frames manually aligned across multiple nights if using a skyguider pro), I found out that APP is unbeatable though. |
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| Just installed it and took a look inside. It seems its main purpose is to stack images. For plate-solving, it's not a standalone tool to communicate with ASCOM. It has to be part of other imaging programs. |
