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Post by stewartw on Aug 29, 2013 10:40:45 GMT
Hi All, Was speaking to John Mason this morning - over the past few weeks he has received numerous photographic images of Perseid meteors. He was wondering if anyone knows of software that could automatically analyse each image, perform astrometry (so it knows what part of the sky is within the FOV) and allow the user to move the cursor to the start and end points of the meteor trail and display the RA / DEC. Does such a thing exist? I know astrometry.net/ will do the former, but not the latter. Has anyone ever used pinpoint.dc3.com/ - will it do both and would it accept anything other than FITS images (I suspect JM's images are JPEGs or RAW). Best regards William
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Post by BillW on Aug 29, 2013 17:51:16 GMT
Hi, That's a difficult want list! I don't know of anything that will do it automatically for diverse un-correlated images, that is images from different people at different times in the same processing run. I use the older version of Cartes du Ciel. But that is fully manual. You can do a basic photo/sky map alignment and the position is read out in the lower left corner. Used it for the Ursid "outburst" in 2007 with twin station video imaging, Heights came out at 104km over a 12 km base line. Not bad for the image resolution. Sorry not much help on this. Bill.
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Post by stewartw on Aug 30, 2013 6:42:44 GMT
Thanks Bill,
Have been ooking into Maxim DL - I think it can do it but will need to try it out as there are reports that it can be a bit slow if you don't provide a good indication of the approximate location and arcsec/pixel value. Currently downloading star-catalogues for the base reference.
Best regards
William
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