On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote:

> I read something about the astrotracer not working perfectly with rectilinear 
> wide angles because the stars at the edges leave traces.

Are you sure that this issue has to do with rectilinear lenses, specifically?

What comes to my mind is this: The correct movement to track the sky
is rotation about the celestial pole. The astrotracer tries to
approximate this motion using the sensor movements available to it:
rotation about the sensor center, plus translation. I think that for
wide fields of view, unless the sensor is centered on the pole, the
tracking motion is going to be wrong at the edges, no matter what the
geometric projection of the lens is (rectilinear or fisheye).

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