

The PlateStar.RawFlux calculation for Catalog stars (which have no flux) has been corrected to produce reasonable (but fake) flux values.This appears to speed up all-sky solutions dramatically. The engine now supplies the estimated plate scale to the all-sky solver.The catalog stars collection limit in the engine has been increased to 200000.Visual PinPoint has a new option to fall-back to all-sky if a local plate solve fails.If it is a cal frame, the solve process will log that and advance to the next image in the list. Visual PinPoint now checks images to see that they are not calibration frames (dark, bias, flat) before trying to solve.The PlateStars collections can now be sorted in Magnitude order (using the always-available red magnitude).The Visual PinPoint solve summary log now includes the name of the catalog from which catalog stars were read.Visual PinPoint now reports the total number of solved and failed plates on a mass plate solve (2 or more plates).If you can afford the space, this is now the best catalog for all uses. This 70Gb catalog, including Gaia stars and PanSTARRS magnitudes, has high quality magnitudes, it goes deep, and has proper motions. The ATLAS All-Sky Stellar Reference Catalog is now supported.

#Visual pinpoint software 64 Bit

This release is mainly a restructuring of the engine internally so as to support a 64 bit version of the astrometric engine, and to add support for the ATLAS All-Sky Stellar Reference Catalog. Usage of the ATLAS Catalog now has its own chapter in PinPoint Help.ĭownloading and Using PinPoint Reference Catalogs (Updated April 2021) Please note that we have updated the knowledge base article for catalogs to include downloading and installing the new ATLAS catalog.
#Visual pinpoint software generator
We made this for some special-application customers, as well as for Main Sequence Software's upcoming 64-bit Sequence Generator Pro. The other installer adds the 64 bit engine. The only change from Field Test 5 is in the Catalog Checker which now catches selection of an individual mag-band subfolder instead of the main ATLAS folder. Your PinPoint license must be current as of 0. We have released PinPoint 7.0 to production.
