WCS Coordinates in a Folder Being Watched

[Ross Salinger]

If I set up a folder to be watched and the images solved, will the WCS coordinates be added to the FITS header? That would save me a ton of time when I'm doing exoplanet runs with a lot of images that I end up having to solve the next morning.

[han.k]

Unfortunately that will not happen. It will solve and display the coordinates (and an offset for a manual set target). This monitoring action is intended to guide an mount and telescope without position encoders to a celestial position.

But you can batch solve images with the batch menu. This menu will solve selected images very quick and update the header with the WCS or WCS+SIP solution. It is described in the manual:

https://www.hnsky.org/astap.htm#batch_processing

Han

[han.k]

There is new ASTAP development version which doesn't steal the focus when the batch solving processing is running:

http://www.hnsky.org/astap_setup.exe

Han

[han.k]

Only relevant for raw files.