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Re: Software for Star Recorgintion
From: David Cortes
Date: 2014 Jan 23, 21:55 -0500
From: David Cortes
Date: 2014 Jan 23, 21:55 -0500
The place to go is Stellarium. It not only has beautiful graphics, but star data good enough to do celnav. I plugged the data into my iphone app, and came out with a three-star fix accurately showing my position in the middle of a very small cocked hat. -----Original Message----- From: NavList@fer3.com [mailto:NavList@fer3.com] On Behalf Of Luc Van den Borre Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2014 4:58 PM To: dcortes@rwlw.com Subject: [NavList] Re: Software for Star Recorgintion On 23/01/2014 22:48, Marcel Tschudin wrote: > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- I am searching and searching and cannot find it ... If I remember > right a member from NavList provided several months ago a link to a > Web-page showing the data of the recognised stars from an uploaded > photo. I have a photo from some stars in the sky where I would like to > know which ones they are and their coordinates. Could you please help > me to find the tool. Thank you. I don't know if it's the website posted earlier, but astrometry.net does this. Luc : http://fer3.com/arc/m2.aspx?i=126650
