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[theskyhound]

Greg,

That could be incredibly useful to astro imagers. ST4i already has an excellent catalog of star positions + proper motions. Could the ST4 catalog work with the astronomy.net software to perform the plate solving? How about identifying MPs too? (Not asking for much am I ;-) .)

Phil S.

Maybe. I don't really know, but for licensing reasons you would likely just install the thing on your computer separately, along with its own data sets, and then SkyTools would submit images to it to be plate solved. I wasn't suggesting adding astrometry to SkyTools... that is a separate app. I was just trying to find a way around the server issues people are experiencing.