Thanks for that information!
CdC can display FITS images with location, direction and scale
information embedded in them. This works fine with Elbrus (also free :)
CdC gets rather overwhelmed by 3000x2000 images though so it's not very
usable.
Sander
Philipp Salzgeber wrote:
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>
>
> I disagree! The poor-man approach to plate solving is uploading your
> picture to flickr and submit it to the astrometry.net group, it will
> be solved like this:
>
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/28053...@n02/3366941517/
> <http://www.flickr.com/photos/28053...@n02/3366941517/>
>
> Hello, this is the blind astrometry solver. Your results are:
> (RA, Dec) center:(189.127966848, 26.5662964523) degrees
> (RA, Dec) center (H:M:S, D:M:S):(12:36:30.712, +26:33:58.667)
> Orientation:110.58 deg E of N
>
> Pixel scale:8.46 arcsec/pixel
>
> Parity:Reverse ("Left-handed")
> Field size :2.41 x 1.61 degrees
>
> Your field contains:
> NGC 4494
> NGC 4562
> NGC 4565
>
> actually it would be really nice if CDC would be able to display
> images with AVM headers in the proper orientation and scaling on the
> sky as Worldwide Telescope from Microsoft does. AVM headers can be
> calculated from the astrometry.net info. If you use astrometry.net
> directly you can download the fits headers for converting them to AVM.
>
> -- Philipp
>
