Friday, September 7, 2018

Astrometry.net


If you have astronomical imaging of the sky with celestial coordinates you do not know—or do not trust—then Astrometry.net is for you. Input an image and it will give you back astrometric calibration meta-data, plus lists of known objects falling inside the field of view.

Astrometry.net has built this astrometric calibration service to create correct, standards-compliant astrometric meta-data for every useful astronomical image ever taken, past and future, in any state of archival disarray. They hope this will help organize, annotate and make searchable all the world's astronomical information. (Source Astrometry.net)


Having troubles finding out what I recently photographed my Helios collegue Walter refered towards the website Astrometry.net. After uploading my picture, it took a couple of minutes showing all the details I was looking for. I did some more testing and each time feedback was in short matter of time given of the details of the picture.
You can sign in using your google-account which makes it possible to go back into earlier personal searchs.