Image Plate Solve Script

[sctall]

I just started reading this thread, and literally had no idea what plate solving was or how it worked.
After reading most of the thread, and finding your help PDF file, I was able to solve a few of my images.
This is so cool!!!! 8)
Thanks
One thing that threw me was if I had a neg Dec, then I needed to select the "S" for Southern Hemisphere. Since I live in the Northern, I would not expect to ever select this. Did not see this in the doc.
But, by playing around with all the parameters, I got it to work.
Also I did not know the Image solver, prepared the Annotate to get the final image.
I also was able to download the catalog on the PI download site to run it locally on a system that's firewall wont let me out.

I really don't understand anything about these so called KEYWORDS yet or where they come from and are found.

Excellent, and a lot more to learn here.

Scott T.

[pfile]

well, S stands for the southern hemisphere of the celestial sphere... looking due south, anything in the sky between the southern horizon and an angle equivalent to your latitude are at negative declinations (southern declinations)

rob

[ericblondin]

Hi Craig,

I had the same problem...
I do not know if you've found the answer to this old question, if not, I found two ways to solve this problem.

1 - change the screen resolution in System Preferences> for me it worked with 1680x1050 resolution

otherwise

2 - modify slightly the script "ImageSolver.js" in line 423 that controls the size of the window of the plugin.
You must disable the following three lines with a / /

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this.setVariableHeight ();
this.targetImageGroup.adjustToContents ();
this.adjustToContents ();
/ / if (solverCfg.useActive)
/ / this.setFixedSize ();
/ / else
this.setMinHeight ();


This allows you to resize the window and have access to hidden fields.

This plugin is wonderful, thank you for this beautiful work...
I hope it can help mac users.

Eric.

[pfile]

wrong thread??? but thanks for the hack, i have this problem as well.

[ericblondin]

wrong thread? sorry, I tried to answer to Craig, page 5...
I was mistaken?

Eric.

[pfile]

no my mistake, without the quote i couldn't tell

rob

[Andres.Pozo]

I have published a new beta version in this thread: http://pixinsight.com/forum/index.php?topic=8616.0