Platesolving and Annotating with Siril, Aladin Desktop, and LROC Quickmap
When I process my Astrophotography I always wonder, if the fuzzy patches I see in my images are background galaxies. There are tools out there that can help you identify which galaxies they are. Sometimes you can find astonishing details on them.
Finding out details of the topography of things you photographed on the Moon turned out to be the most difficult. But thanks to the conversations on this subject on Twitter I found really helpful insights from Rob Tilsey and Will Gater. See https://twitter.com/willgater/status/...
In this video I explore a few of the tools that are freely available. The tools and websites I mention in this video are:
http://nova.astrometry.net/
All Sky Plate Solver - http://www.astrogb.com/astrogb/All_Sk...
Siril - https://siril.org/
Simbad Astronomical Database - http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/
Aladin Lite - https://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/AladinLite/
Aladin Desktop - https://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/java/nph-...
SVS: Moon Phase and Libration, 2021 "Dial-A-Moon" - https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4874
LROC QuickMap - https://quickmap.lroc.asu.edu/
If you know of tools that would help annotate the images shot for Astrophotography even better or more easy, please leave a comment!
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Submitted tools by viewers:
Virtual Moon Atlas - https://ap-i.net/avl/en/start
I know that PixInsight has an annotation option which is really nice, but I like to know what free-to-use solutions are out there!
Do you want me to make a more detailed video on one of these tools? Let me know in the comments.
#astrophotography #siril #aladin #platesolving #nasa #moon #lroc
Chapters
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00:00 Introduction
01:26 DSO - nova.astrometry.net
03:12 DSO - All Sky Plate Solver
04:06 DSO - Siril
06:58 DSO - Aladin Lite
08:04 DSO - Aladin Desktop
12:23 DSO - Result: Heron Galaxy and the background fuzzies
12:44 Moon - Dial A Moon
15:23 Moon - LROC QuickMap
16:24 Moon - The elusive South Pole Peaks
20:07 Moon - Result: An annotated 'fly-over'
20:57 Outro
My links
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TWITTER: / mjschoenmaker
INSTAGRAM: / astrokoplamp
TELESCOPIUS: https://telescopius.com/profile/schoe...
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Music/Sound effects:
Space - Saturn Dust - / @saturndust
Light Expanse - Unicorn Heads - YouTube audio library
"Subscribe Button" by MrNumber112 • Free Download: Subscribe Button + Notifica...
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Edited in #Shotcut https://www.shotcut.org/