![]() ![]() In this case, your location is Toronto, latitude 43 north, and longitude 79 west. The Tool Palette also displays your current location. In this example, you're located on Earth. You probably already figured out this latter part but thought I would mention it just in case. Starry Night displays your current location beside the location flag at the bottom left of all open windows. Use Starry Night Pro to control your scope and your scope's resulting GoTo's should be right on target. Click on "Sync" to align the scope's view to be the exact same view that your Starry Night Pro screen is showing (the view of the plate-solved RA/DEC) and now your scope and Starry Night Pro software are aligned. Then you just go out to Starry Night Pro"s "Telescope view" to sync on the plate solved coordinates that you mention you have zoomed into on the screen. However, if I use the telescope range (lower left corner, telescope field of view), it keeps the same center while zooming back in.Įdited by waysta, 29 March 2016 - 01:00 PM. I notice on first look, mine zooms way out after I enter a new center. Thanks also to Keiron Smith at Simulation Curriculum. Thanks! It turns out that in Starry Night Pro Plus 7, the feature is now in a drop down menu under "View", then "center". No need to convert the RA and DEC into a format more recognizable to Starry Night Pro as it will automatically accept and utilize the format that presents. In my older version of Starry Night Pro, the ability to do that is found up on the horizontal menu bar under Edit, then Center On. After connecting my scope to my laptop to control it via Starry Night Pro software, I cut/paste the RA and DEC coordinates directly from the page and into the Starry Night Pro program. I take the plate solve results I get from uploading my picture to the site that you have already successfully tried. I have not been able to get Elbrus to work.Įdited by waysta, 29 March 2016 - 01:02 PM. I have noticed, but not tried, Pinpoint, and Astrotortilla. Also, it says my estimates of RA and DEC are zero after entering them. UNIMAP is the closest I found so far, but it is unstable and crashes more often than it runs on my Win10 machine. Update: The feature is there - drop down menu under "View", then "center". Unfortunately, there does not appear to be an easy way to enter RA and DEC directly into Starry Night PRO 7 (surprising and disappointing if correct). Trying out platesolvers, I found that the PlaneWave Plate Solve 2 is quickest and easiest to use for me so far, but all it returns is center RA and DEC, and other image location parameters (rotation too). ![]() Įventually, I want to do telescope control too, but for now I would like to move that center RA/DEC to a star chart, or at least label many of the stars by computer. ![]() Not sure where to post this, EAA rules say equipment only, not sure where platesolver goes, might be a beginner topic, because I wish I new about platesolver software earlier!). What are some ways to get a plate solver to return a labeled star chart, or at least a center RA/DEC on a displayed chart? I learned about platesolver software which returns at least the center of the image in RA and DEC. If I moved off easily identified stars, it was tough going. My first attempts to find images on star charts did not go well. ![]()
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