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Then I tried loading the solved images into AIJ - and there it turns out that I was misunderstanding the semantics of the Import Image Sequence dialog.
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When I tried to select those output files in the dialog, I found they were, once again, grayed out. ASTAP did a great job, solved all 64, and replaced them with the solved versions, complete with WCS info. I suspect a bug, because once - ONCE ONLY, and for no apparent reason - I found that on opening the batch solve FITS and TIFF dialog, the files were NOT grayed out and I was able to batch solve them. I will be curious to know the reason for this. On my PC, the above processes occur quickly with the 8MB binned 2x2 images I usually deal with. Save it (File>Save Image/Slice as FITS.) into your preferred folder. A stacked image is created and displayed. Select the appropriate responses in the dialog and click "OK". To stack the images, load them (File>Import>Image Sequence), then select Image>Stack>Z Project (yeah, I know that's not intuitive). The images will be aligned in a new subdirectory named "aligned" in the folder containing the original files. Make sure those stars are present in all images in the stack. Then place (by clicking) an aperture around each of a few stars. In the row of icons just above the displayed image (the first of the stack), find the one that is labelled "align stack using apertures" when you hover the cursor. Make sure you have enabled Virtual Stack in the dialog where you select the images. Load all your images using File>Import>Image Sequence from the AIJ toolbar.
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Has anyone successfully built the software on a RHEL 7 or similar system? If so, what did you have to do to make it compile and link?Īlternatively, does anyone know of an easier (especially, more efficient) way to plate solve star field images? I have tried to use the native solver in ASTAP, but it has failed on every image I have of Delta Cephei, taken with a 250 mm lens and a 30 second exposure at ISO 200 and having a roughly 5.5 x 3.5 degree FOV. Adding the compiler flag -std=c99 gets me past that hurdle, but then the build fails at what appears to be linking build-hd-tree, with complaints about a large number of multiply defined functions. I have tried to build the software locally on a Linux machine (Scientific Linux 7.9), using the instructions for the very similar CentOS 7.8 on, following the link from, but this fails to compile catalogs/ucac5tofits.c out of the box. fits files and waiting several minutes for each one. does a beautiful job, but this requires uploading large. After taking a number of science images, naturally now I want to plate solve them.