Thursday, July 3, 2008

Day #19

Using Maxim DL, I was able to get the coordinates of my asteroid at its first telescope position with the "PinPoint astrometry" feature. This is encouraging because I had all but concluded that Maxim DL would only do this for the final position. However, it takes Maxim DL a very long time to do this. It must have worked for forty minutes searching through the star catalogue before it finally solved the image. I set it to work on the second position, but after about an hour, it still had not been able to work its astrometry. I left it going, so hopefully it will work at some point. If I can get it to work for all my telescope positions, then I'll have what I really need. This is what I'm currently working on. It is a very slow process.

No comments: