I’m building a new AP laptop (my previous one was shutting down randomly throughout the night). I’ve always loaded ASTAP, ansvr, PS2, and ASPS plate solvers onto my laptop. Is that necessary (with the big ASTAP banner during plate solving) or overkill?
Overkill is perhaps a bit harsh, but in my experience just ASTAP (Native) has always been enough. I do not have the other plate solvers configured in SGP. Although I did try to install PS3, which might be better for a long focal length setup. PS3 is working fine stand-alone, but SGP claims the PS3 catalogues are not configured and as such does not recognize it to be ready for use.
Any problems with ASTAP and I just reset defaults and it works and the window does not appear (unless there is an external problem).
ASTAP and ANSVR just work quickly and reliably.
Well ASTAP is very quick and ANSVR can be a tad slow but rarely needed if scope is pointing well.
ASTAP with Astrometry.net as failover has always been enough for me
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