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    Re: Determining List by Vega DSLR Image
    From: Peter Monta
    Date: 2013 Aug 29, 13:29 -0700
    Hi Greg,

    astrometry.net succeeds on this image, but it took some time---I think it was almost faked out by spurious detections of "stars" detected within the mast.  Here is a link to the results of their web service on this image:

    http://nova.astrometry.net/user_images/72641#annotated

    Using a FITS viewer (such as ds9) on the new-image.fits file available for downloading from that page, you can read off (ra,dec) directly by putting the mouse cursor over any part of the image.

    The matching is quite good:

    http://nova.astrometry.net/red_green_image_full/85032

    Can see the spurious detections on this check image, but the genuine ones are right on the money.  Green is a detected source from your photo; red is a catalog object.

    Cheers,
    Peter

       
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