Amar, I get this all the time. Provided you've programmed the basic parameters of your equipment and observing site correctly, it usually comes down to the...
I can use Astrometrica to get the coordinates of Haumea, and I can use those coordinates to sort out the reference star matches for my image - but, when I do...
Hello Astrometrists, A new kid on the block here, from India. Just managed to touch Astrometrica, having forayed into the CCD world for just 4 months now. At...
A small number of reference stars usually indicates that the reference star match is invalid. There are several possible reasons for that, but in most cases,...
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May 14, 2012 9:10 pm
Les, It's difficult to check this without having a suitable FITS image. If you want to forward me privately a typical image and a copy of your config file I...
Your PA and Pointing allowance is too big, once you know your pointing is good and the PA doesn't vary much, restrict these down. I have pointing down to 2'...
Hi Les, just to check, are you sure you have "Known Objects" checked (Images > Select Markings ...) which version of Astrometrica do you have - the path to...
I have a quick question, being rather new to this program. I recently plugged in 3 FITS images that contain an asteroid 186-Celuta which I purposely images....
Hello Nor, check out the paper I have mentioned here yesterday: http://www.astrometrica.at/Papers/Astrometrica-Settings.pdf There is a chapter "Fine tuning the...
Hi Nor, I used to have a saying ; "five frames find faint facts". If you use more than 3 frames you will notice the number of false detections goes down...
Hi Luca: Thanks for the reply and your offer to look at my images. I have since precisely determined my PA and made some changes based on a paper Herbert Raab...
Tom, again, I recommend that paper: http://www.astrometrica.at/Papers/Astrometrica-Settings.pdf At the end, there is a chapter "If the Image Alignment fails ...
... The brain/eye-combination is much better in reconizing similar patterns than the software is. If you can't find a match, the software won't find it either....
Thanks herb. Great piece of software. I am using a 6" reflector with skies that are lit by some nearby cities and today I manually identified an asteroid...
Hi Tomas, I've checked everything you suggest and have just done another automatic update of MPCOrb, which Astrometrica reported went smoothly. What really...
As an addendum and update ... I took two sets of images last night - one of Haumea and one of Makemake. I processed each set in exactly the same way, then...
I've seen now from MPES that Haumea has an H value of 0.0, that can be true, but maybe MPC software recognizes it as a null value, so with a null magnitude. ...
... Luca, you are absolutely correct. Astrometrica will not calculate apparent magnitudes for objects that have an absolute magnitude of exactly 0.0. In the...
HI again Gary, Yup you were right! I loaded 9 frames and the program had no trouble locating 186. It was to only object in motion that was detected. Thanks...
Hello Nor, with a detection limit of 4 sigma and some fine-tuning of the settigs, you should be able to remove most, if not all, of the false positives in a...
Hey! I'm not as dumb as I look! Interesting little quirk - what one might call "unintended consequences" of a decision taken for all the right reasons. Thanks...
Hi , I'd like to thank you for your tips in getting the program to recognize a moving object. Last night I took another look at an asteroid 16 Psyche and ...
I was wondering if anyone out there can tell me how to calculate what the minimum magnitude of objects that can be expected to be imaged given a specific...
Hello, Here are some formules: http://www.wilmslowastro.com/software/formulae.htm#REFLECT ... Best Regards, Mr. Pieter-Jan Dekelver Maasmechelen, Belgium ...
Reading PointSources.pdf<http://www.astrometrica.at/Papers/PointSources.pdf> may be useful to understand the various factors involved, not just the telescope...
