When you have an account with astrometry.net you can upload fits images and get the image back with the proper header information. Of course colour DSLR images are huge in fits, so this is quite cumbersome.
Zitat von Sander Pool <[email protected]>: > > 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: >> >> >> >> 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 >> >
