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StellarSolver is an astrometric plate solving library that has been integrated into
Ekos in order to provide accurate and efficient offline plate solving.
For plate solving there are several parts in StellarSolver that are important:
Source Extraction
To find the stars in your image in order to solve. In StellarSolver, there are options
for 3 different methods:
· Internal SEP: this requires no external programs, it is the same SEP star
extraction algorithm that has existed in KStars for Focus and Guiding for
awhile now. It is essentially a library version of the method below (though
there are some differences which is why they give slightly different results).
It is entirely internal to the program, so there are no files saved to disk for
the extraction which is great for Raspberry Pis etc.
· External Sextractor: this does require an external program, SExtractor, or
the Source Extractor. This is their official standalone program. The
drawback is you would need to have sextractor installed and it does save a
bunch of files to disk in order to do its operations.
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