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VPhot Plate solving -- for Gier

Ed Wiley_WEY
Affiliation
American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO)
Fri, 07/11/2014 - 00:00

Hi Gier:

I have a couple of mystery images. VPhot refused to plate solve them. So, I got an astrometric solution in SkyX and tried again. Still no plate solving. Might I share them with you to solve the mystery?

Btw: Other images from the same night were successfully solved, thus the mystery.

Ed

Ed Wiley_WEY
Affiliation
American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO)
Fri, 07/11/2014 - 00:07
Apologies Geir

[quote=Ed Wiley_WEY]

Hi Gier:

I have a couple of mystery images. VPhot refused to plate solve them. So, I got an astrometric solution in SkyX and tried again. Still no plate solving. Might I share them with you to solve the mystery?

Btw: Other images from the same night were successfully solved, thus the mystery.

Ed

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Very Sorry! Geir not Gier! Apologies. Geez Too bad there is no editing function on original posts.

Ed

kge
Affiliation
Norwegian Astronomical Society, Variable Star Section (NAS)
Fri, 07/11/2014 - 13:44
Apologies Geir

Hi Ed!

No problem, it takes more to offend me than that :-)

Glad it worked out. But sometimes some images does not plate solve, even though they look just fine. I have not figured out why. It is a complicated procedure I guess, and lots of parameters that can affect the outcome.

Geir