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ASI183 & C8 0.63 Reducrer plate solve combination?!

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Hello

Does this combination give too small an image scale??
INDI calculates a FOV of 16.6 x 11.7 arc mins in the alignment module which should fall into the  astrometry-data-4205 index files range which I have installed.
However i cant get plate solving to work

I can solve @ 1280mm using a cannon 60Da and an ASI294 and I have used the ASI183 @ 390mm( hyperstar) on the C8 but i cant get it to solve on this more zoomed in configuration of using the C8 and a 0.63 focal reducer and an ASI183.

I have my guide scope and main scope pretty well aligned so i can get the scope pretty close by solving with my guide scope/cam. However to get that last bit of accuracy and to find out the field rotation i need to be able to solve through the imaging scope.

This is using astroberry btw . It has just occurred to me i havn't tried this using stellarmate...
Maybe worth a go tonight..clouds permitting.
Experimentation is tricky this time of year with the short nights..
2 years 9 months ago #72698

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hmm I just thought to try load and slew in the alignment module on a 300 sec sub that i took using the described combination and it resolved it.

It could just be i wasnt doing a long enough exposure for plate solving....I guess i wasnt allowing for the 2.4 micron pixels at f6.3
Ill confirm tonight.
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So it turns out that the calculated FOV with the version of INDI with astroberry was caluclaing a FOV of 11'x16' for the same camera/scope combination.
The same combination using stellarmate  gives a FOV of 35.4 x23.7 arc mins
Plate solving works fine with the latter FOV.
Last edit: 2 years 8 months ago by robert.
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I just had a similar problem last night. When I put a reducer on, built a new scope, and chose it as primary, the solver would not solve it. Plenty of stars. Turns out the FOV was wrong. I manually entered something close and it solved, and then it filled in the proper FOV.
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