Plate Solve Tab
The Plate Solve tab is used to set the desired binning and the image scale of your system and test to verify that a plate solve can be successfully performed.
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Binning defines the camera binning that will be used for determining telescope pointing. It is recommended that you use 2+ to improve S/N and reduce image download time
X/Y scale is the camera unbinned scale in arc-sec / pixel.
Press the small button to open the Scale calculator
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Set the maximum time in seconds to plate solve an image,default = 60 sec (PinPoint only).
'Edit Star Avoid' will open a text file that contain a list of stars that will be ignored by AcquireStar.
Occasionally AquireStar may locate a star in the star catalog that appears to FocusMax as double star which will result in poor or failed autofocus run.
The file contains Star ID, Ra and Dec and magnitude delimited by '|'
'ID |RA |Dec |Mag ==> Any line starting with ' will be ignored. Do not delete this line 'GSC 3097-0115|17:52:09.2|+42:51:25.8|7.11 ==> sample - you may delete this line SAO 49603 |20:25:26 |+42:36:18 |6.9 . Simply add the known problem star to the list and AcquireStar will ignore it. |
'Expose & Solve' will take an image and attempt to plate solve the current telescope position using the plate solve method selected on the AcquireStar Setup tab.
