ASTAP as plate solver

[han.k]

@Rowland_Archer

Would be very cool if you could integrate this with Voyager’s Application Server so you could load, view, analyze and potentially stack images as they are acquired - there’s a “new FITS ready” signal from Voyager to trigger the load.

I have the impression that communicating via a server makes it too complicated. My first impression it would be easier if Voyager could execute a viewer (path configurable) with the fits filename as parameter every time a new file is created. If you do this with ASTAP, it will create a new instance every time. I’m just experimenting with the possibility to restrict this to one. So if you click on fits filename, they are opened in the same ASTAP. Experimental. You could download this version as:
http://www.hnsky.org/astapx.zip

If you want to use the solver and viewer at the same time, you have to duplicate the executable and rename one.

Han