ACP and Plate Solving

G'day All,

In recent months I have installed a new pc and ancillary software to get my ACP/Scheduler system back on line.
The primary usage of this equipment is in photometry, imaging at a focal length of 2500mm, with a FOV of 20 X 30 arcminutes.
My previous system setup achieved a final plate solving for each image at around 80%. This meant that I had to use other software outside of the ACP
platform to try and plate solve the remaining 20% of my images - a bit time consuming.

Anyway, a few months ago I re-read an article by Bob regarding plate solving -

https://forums.dc3.com/showthread.ph...5419#post25419

I had been using the GSC catalog for a number of years and decided to download the large ATLAS All-Sky Stellar Reference Catalog.
Since installing this catalog ACP has been solving 99.9% of images. (and any failed image solve I have seen has been due to poor weather rolling in)

So, previously I had just accepted non 100% solving of my images due largely to my relatively small FOV and long focal length,
but with this Atlas catalog its been like chalk and cheese - Again ACP/Scheduler are bullet proof - especially on my new pc hardware!

Again many thanks to Bob and the other great people on this forum for feedback and again Bob's after sales service!!!

cheers, Merv

Thanks very much for the kind words Merv. I really appreciate it.

-- Bob