[Kstars-devel] A far fetched idea - Image alignment

[Jason Harris]

awesome idea.  Astrometry.net is so good it's spooky to witness.  I've
seen it operate on a snapshot of a lake taken at night with some stars
in the sky...it got the correct plate solution in only a few seconds.

I guess we would add a button to the Image Viewer that would determine
the plate solution and then add the image to the sky.  We could also
add an option to automatically make the background color transparent,
to get rid of hard edges in the inline image.

Inline images should probably be decoupled from SkyObjects when we
implement this.

regards,
Jason

On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 3:27 PM, Akarsh Simha <akarshsimha at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> There's this excellent project called Astrometry.net which is licensed
> under GPL. Give it a photograph of any region of the sky - no data to
> be input (not even center RA/Dec) and it solves the field and
> identifies all stars and objects in the field of the photograph. I've
> tried the website in the past and it it doesn't fail easily.
>
> When I was talking to a friend about image alignment in KStars, he
> recommended making field solving a permanent solution incorporated
> within KStars, so that the user could download images on the fly and
> incorporate them (not only in the details dialog, but also) as inline
> thumbnail images.
>
> It might be a far-fetched and unnecessary thing to go about
> implementing, but I was thinking of something that uses the astrometry
> libraries to automatically re-orient images correctly in KStars! This
> might eventually help us do texture mapping.
>
> Any thoughts on this?
>
> Regards
> Akarsh
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