I have been using PinPoint (& Visual Pinpoint) from DC-3 Dreams for some time now on Windows... it is a VERY fast solver... and using local catalog files (all the usual including UCAC4 now) can solve an image with rough RA/DEC in around 5 seconds! It does have the ability to all-sky solve using astrometry.net with the same sort of timing responses as Ekos...
PinPoint can be scripted with VB or similar to return various elements of a solved image given hint RA/Dec coords....
so, my request would be to be able to utilise a client local solver program, to be supplied with a fits (or maybe jpeg?) file, returning whatever required astrometry details.... (my example can echo the solve results to stdout, for e.g)
Phil
PinPoint can be scripted with VB or similar to return various elements of a solved image given hint RA/Dec coords....
so, my request would be to be able to utilise a client local solver program, to be supplied with a fits (or maybe jpeg?) file, returning whatever required astrometry details.... (my example can echo the solve results to stdout, for e.g)
Phil