I am continually having issues when imaging with a Framing & Mosaic framing angle that has the camera angle at other than 0 or 90 degrees. (I am manually rotating the camera). Even though I start the session with the camera angle precisely where it needs to be for the Framing & Mosaic’s planned angle, during plate solving SGP will have me rotate CW x degrees, then CCW y degrees, - it usually ends up completely failing the plate solving.
Last night, while imaging IC443 the Framing & Mosaic tool planned angle was 145 degrees - I started the session with the camera at that angle. The plate solving had me rotate multiple times CW then CCW until it had me back at the original starting point - then began the session. After the meridian flip - it did the same thing, ending up resolving the plate solving with the camera at an angle approximately 106 degrees (that’s what it had me rotate it to from the pre-flip “correct” framing) off from the Framing & Mosaic angle.
See the attached image of the stacked data - the “portrait” tile was the pre-flip data at the camera angle (145 degrees) that intended using your Framing & Mosaic tool and was in the SGP plan. The “landscape” tile was the post-flip data at the angle (39 degrees) the plate solving directed (CCW rotation of 106 degrees).
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Please tell me what can be done to image targets at camera angles off 0 or 90 degrees reliably.
Thank you very much!
Suzanne