Copyright 2012-2016 AstroTortilla team astrotortilla-devel@lists.sourceforge.net

Copyright 2010-2011 Antti Kuntsi

This project is licensed under GPL, see the file LICENSE for details. This software is delivered as-is, with no expressed or implied guarantees of being fit for any purpose.

AstroTortilla

AstroTortilla is a helper application that brings plate solving to your astrophotography workflow.

With plate solving, AstroTortilla can on its own figure out where your telescope is pointed.

This enables you to automatically and quickly do things like

calibrate your GoTo tracking mount ,

, GoTo any target with arcsecond accuracy and

and measure your polar alignment error.



AstroTortilla v0.4 GUI AstroTortilla v0.4 GUI

Localized window resized for easy editing of plate-solver settings. Localized window resized for easy editing of plate-solver settings.

AstroTortilla is made possible by the Astrometry.net plate solver engine.

What you need

Computer control of a camera , using Maxim DL, Nebulosity, Astro Photography Tool, Backyard EOS 3 or Almost any other imaging software

, using Computer control of a GoTo tracking mount , using ASCOM drivers

, using

The software is designed to be expandable and contributions for supporting more software are welcome.

The FAQ contains some answers to the most frequently asked questions.

NEWS

2016-08-14: Version 0.8 test release 1, bug fixes and Nebulosity 4 support.

2014-05-31: Version 0.7 released, containing bug fixes.

2013-09-19: Version 0.6 released, support for BackyardEOS 3 and Nebulosity 3.1 added

2013-07-10: The astrometry.net Cygwin mirror in installer now points to a new server and installing should work again without hacking.

2013-04-20: Issues with log window solved in 0.5.2 release.

2013-04-10: 4100 and 4200 series index files can now be downloaded with the new 0.5.1 installer. You can delete the problematic 4000 series index files manually before upgrading (installer will not do any destructive changes). The index files are typically under C:\Cygwin\usr\share\astrometry\data\ -directory.

2013-04-01: astrometry.net just released 4200 series index files that correct a bug in the 4000 series files. The 4000 series apparently didn't have the whole sky covered evenly. Additionally, a 4100 series generated from the Tycho catalog is available for faster solutions of wide field frames.

Installing AstroTortilla



AstroTortilla User manual (PDF) - Getting Started with AstroTortilla (PDF)



AstroTortilla käyttöohje (PDF) (in finnish) - AstroTortilla pikaopas (PDF) (in finnish)

Read what all the settings can do for you.

Known issues

Index downloader doesn't always get the data estimate right, underestimating to bytes instead of gigabytes.

If you see "error 15106 User stopped resource enumeration", please report your system information to the discussion forum (HW, OS version, graphics card driver, antivirus). Also try the possible work-around for 15106 version in the /testing/ packages.

Using the obsolete 4000-series index files may result in slow solve times with default settings, check the FAQ for tips (remedied with 4100-series for wide-angle and the new default 4200-series for general use).

All configuration values must be in ASCII (including your working directories and username).

Bookmark names can contain any characters v0.3 onwards.

Bookmark names can contain any characters v0.3 onwards. On some occasions doesn't install the VS8 runtime even if it's missing, this is easily identified as "DLL not found" for win32ui in the execution logs when AstroTortilla fails to start. You can get the redistributable installer from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29 if, for some reason, it is not automatically installed.

Support

Check the discussion forum for help.

You can also subscribe to the astrotortilla-announce mailing list for release announcements.