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plate solving is an advanced technique where the telescope will slew to exactly where it previously was to line up with the stars in a shot perfectly, so as to continue a shot or start again a new night, etc.
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Comment by Charles Dunlop on July 9, 2011 at 12:30pm
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for me I never needed to fiddle with it, CCDautopilot and SkyX handled it without me thinking, so even though it's working great I know nothing about it. lol
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Comment by PETER TAYLOR on July 9, 2011 at 12:13pm
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Hi All,
Just starting with this seems very complicated to me, I have Maxim 5.12 and Ascom bits will I be able to control my RCX400 10", TO GUIDE, FOCUS, and IMAGE, and still do GOTO with Meade Autostar as I have got it to GOTO very good it always puts what I wont on my SX H9C chip.
peter
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Comment by Gregg Winter on June 28, 2011 at 9:29pm
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Hi Guys,
I'm just starting to look at this so I might be raising the help flag in the next few days. Thanks.
Gregg
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yeah you still need either the sky or Pinpoint to use polarmax. The plate solving was a tirp, it just started up and did it on it's own, was not expecting it to be that easy.
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plates solving in SkyX pro is pretty easy, super straightforward once you have your FOV accurate.
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Comment by Jeff McFarlin on March 16, 2011 at 9:53pm
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Also - to contribute to the discussion, you can run your own software, distributed by astrometry.net. I built it yesterday under Fedora 11, and it works flawlessly. You can solve anything, and you don't need to tell it anything about the input. It uses the USNO-B index, you can download the parts of it you need. Very cool software. See my blog for my install notes: http://www.silvren.com/blog/
Jeff
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Comment by Marc Basti on March 15, 2011 at 11:15am
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I thought I read some guys were using w/SkyX (?) Jeff will know-good to have a resident engineer around. Marc
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yeah, I use Maxim. there is observatory control software that works with Maxim that controls this. But I wonder if Maxim has something that does this as well.
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Just compatible w/Maxim?
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Anyone use this? Jeff was telling me about it. I'm going to try and make a system capable of this.
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