I created that feature so that I could extensively test various options in the plate-solvers. I then realized that others might be able to use it for checking software setup, so I made it available. I

Ok, so I ran these myself and they solved in 0.2 and 0.3 seconds with the G18 database. It seems that however these images were generated, they were generated with a small enough FoV that they didn't

Your suggestion should not dictate the future state of the software nor the parameters in which it is tested. If you have stifled adding additional plate solving solutions over this silly test case

When a user first gets their mount and APCC Pro, I have often suggested that they use APCC Pro during the daytime with the NASA SkyView camera. This allows them to confirm they have APCC, APPM, and

Show me a single use case where a customer of Astro-Physics is going to use DSS data to plate solve and run their system. What you do on your own voyage in this hobby is irrelevant. They pay you to

Agee to disagree. I have used this technique effectively for a while. :-) -Ray Gralak Author of PEMPro Author of APCC (Astro-Physics Command Center): https://www.astro-physics.com/apcc-pro Author of

Its fake data. No one using this software is going to go through that workflow. Its like testing the taste of peanut butter on bread, with a barrel of fish guts instead.

Like 9000 years ago.

Just a reminder: this isn't about removing solving through SGPro or anything; this is about eliding such software from a user's stack where it provides no benefit but yet incurs a real cost. As a DLSR

Why not contribute by creating an ASCOM driver for DSLRs? It is actually a great thing that astronomy software is so componentized. Otherwise, astronomy software would be a lot less evolved if every

Hi Bill, The data from DSS comes from real images, not reconstructed from a list of star coordinates. It may not be perfect, but it's not fake data. It's more real than most data after stacking,

Fair enough, but does not do DSLR imagers (me) any good. Bryan

Hi Dale, Many of the SBIG cameras came with CCDSoftV5 at one time, and APPM can use CCDSoftV5. -Ray Gralak Author of PEMPro Author of APCC (Astro-Physics Command Center):

That's incorrect. APPM can use cameras with ASCOM camera drivers without extra software. -Ray Gralak Author of PEMPro Author of APCC (Astro-Physics Command Center):

See section 14.1 of the APPC Pro docs[1]. APPM already can get an exposure itself without the help of middleware so long as the camera being used has an ASCOM driver. If you're an SBIG owner, I guess

The API for SGP is poor. About as poor as the rest of the package is.

Using fake images isnt a way to test that. I am all for rigor in testing. I have written 3 whitepapers on: Change Protocol in the SRE Era, Postmortems in a Blameless Culture, and Managing Problems in

I reckoned that since I paid for SGP in order to use APPM, I should give it a chance to replace my existing imaging package. That did not work out. While I still use it when I need to update the

Hi Bill, What exactly is wrong with the headers? ASTAP can load the file, read the approximate RA/Dec coordinates, display the 16-bit image (albeit vertically flipped), show the image dimensions, and

>>>I would go further to say that you think it is a great solution because of the sunk cost you have on your ledger. haha wow you guys just don't give up on this! I didn't say it's a great solution,