Unimap

Hi,

I started a project on my own sometime ago mainly to do the automated detection and catalog matching (even in low quality/amateur imaging). Meanwhile I added other futures such as to show asteroids or artificial earth satellites passing through at the time the picture was taken, image tagging, instruments control, resource management, online collaboration etc.

You can check my project at: larryo.org/work/information/unimap/index.html

I am almost ready to release it in a pre-alpha version, however I need some help to test it as well as to see how it behaves in different environments (I implemented it on windows xp). Also, there is still work to be done to improve the user interface and optimize the performace.

Any feedback will be appreciated!

Larry

Hi Larry,
Do you have a link where we can download the software and give it a test run. ?

Hi Dave,

I do have a link I will send/post it once I finish a use/test guide and I must solve some moremory leak propblems I just discovered. I also hope to trim down the archive a little bit as now it stands at 80Mb but I think I can reduce it down to 30Mb.

Is anyone here inetersted in a linux release as well? I am asking this because most of the code I wrote is in c++ with wxwidgets so I can attempt to compile it on different platforms(ie linux and mac) ... well execept for the digital camera support which for the moment is windows only.


Larry

Interesting stuff. Does this actually do plate-solving?

Larry,

I see this does do plate solving. This would have a lot of interest for minor planet observers. Once you have a beta version I would be happy to test it on some real astrometry and compare the results against the Minor Planet Centers data. Are the computed asteroid positions derived using a 2 body or N body solution?

Yes, it does do plate solving. The derived asteroids position is computed using the 2-body solution. I also had a look at a solution for n-body computation but I had to leave that for latter (to much on my plate right now:)

Ain;t research grade yet here:) and a lot yet to test, however you can set the software to use the very latest astrob.dat file which should yell an arcsecond error or less for most not earth approaching asteroids with the 2-body solution.

Larry