Re: Astrometry service

From: Björn Gimle via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org>
Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2014 23:46:45 +0200
I had trouble reading the attached files, all with extension .fits - I
don't have a dedicated FITS processor, but could view the image. Those with
mixed text and binary looked messy, but it turned out that UltraEdit could
easily format the text part by inserting newlines after every 80 chars
(mark text, select wrap-to-newline at col.80) in a single command.
The resulting text suggests that the binary data should be treated as
88-character data, probably 22 32-bit numbers/line.

There is no textual evidence of EXIF time/date or GPS  coordinates (or time)
My camera does not have GPS, but I used my cell phone.
Our skies are too bright for star photos now, but I took an image of a
computer screen with one of my satellite photos, and astronometry.net
solved it nicely, pretty much like the original.

You can see most of my uploads' annotated images, and their fits
attachments by searching at astronometry.net for Tag=BPG

/Björn


2014-06-29 23:18 GMT+02:00 Allen Thomson <thomsona_at_flash.net>:

>
> I haven't used the service myself, but does it read attached Exif data and
> provide time and other such useful information(*) if present?
>
> (*) Like GPS location and time!  I have a little Casio point-and-shoot
> Exilim EX-H20G that does that and love it for the non-astronomical uses
> to which it's suited.
>
>
>   On Sunday, June 29, 2014 6:20 AM, Björn Gimle <bjorn.gimle_at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>
> Reduced the screen image size to allow unmoderated posting.
>
>
> 2014-06-29 13:13 GMT+02:00 Björn Gimle <bjorn.gimle_at_gmail.com>:
>
>
> Very useful indeed ! During a photo session I have often ended up with
> images without the expected target, but with something else, found long
> after my notes have been discarded, or something detected in a different
> part of the sky.
>
> I fail to identify stars in many of these. My initial attempt at
> Astronomy.net solved my test submission in 37s, and presented lots of
> useful result files.
>
>
> 2014-06-25 14:33 GMT+02:00 Allen Thomson via Seesat-l <seesat-l_at_satobs.org
> >:
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> http://nova.astrometry.net/
>
> Possibly of use to satellite watchers....
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