![]() This is all automatic to you and to client programs that embed the engine. If you don't have an internet cdonnection, PinPoint can use the 'ansvr' local all-sky server by Andy Galasso. PinPoint automatically uses the cloud solving service of Astrometry.Net to find its initial solution, then it takes that as the starting point for a full PinPoint solution including distortion mapping. An internet connection is usually employed for this (see below). PinPoint 7 also has built-in all-sky plate solving, eliminating the requirement for approximate image centerpoint coordinates and plate scale at the cost of additional time. It is 70Gb for coverage down to magnitude 18 and 160 Gb for coverage down to magnitude 20. If you can afford the space, this is now the best catalog for all uses. This large, including Gaia stars and PanSTARRS/APASS magnitudes, has high quality magnitudes, it goes deep, and has proper motions. ![]() New with Version 7 is support for the ATLAS All-Sky Stellar Reference Catalog is now supported. A set of point-and-click tools (Visual PinPoint) for fast mass plate solving and survey-level asteroid and supernova hunting are included. Welcome to the web site for the PinPoint Astrometric Engine, a programmable engine that provides sensitive, robust, high-speed research-grade astrometric image processing for FITS files from any camera.
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