This is supplementary code and data for the article Understanding PhotoPolarAlign: Interactive Polar Alignment Routine Using Platesolving.

Contents

• 01-captured-images/ -- a recorded polar alignment session, raw images
• 02-sharpcap-analysis/ -- polar alignment guidance from SharpCap, screenshots
• 03-astap-analysis/ -- annotated images and platesolving results from ASTAP
• platesolve-polar-align.ipynb -- Jupyter Notebook with code, image evaluation, results comparison
• requirements.txt -- list of Python dependencies

How to run

Needs Python 3.7+.

pip install -r requirements.txt
jupyter notebook

References

• https://github.com/ThemosTsikas/PhotoPolarAlign
• https://www.sharpcap.co.uk/sharpcap/features/polar-alignment

License

The source code in this repository is released into the public domain. See LICENSE.txt for details.