Re: Six Astrid systems available for purchase
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It takes a picture of some star-rich field (any one,?preferably at the elevation and direction you expect the event), plate solves, and draws a graph of how many?stars it sees in each magnitude.? If the line on the graph is above a certain point at the magnitude expected for your combined star+asteroid, then stars of your expected magnitude were visible in the photo, and you can expect that you'll be able to see your target star in the recording later on? (absent late-arriving clouds, etc.).?
If you expect some thin clouds to arrive at an unattended station, you might want to increase exposure or gain (or both) as insurance.
Ted B.
Ted, can you elaborate on the exposure validation capabilities? I had that same idea which I wanted to run past the sharpcap team but take it a step further and do the test just before the event in case conditions changed and if the exposure was longer than the duration of the event then just bail out and not do it. Nice to see that it is possible and perhaps mark would be interested in enhancing the capabilities even further.
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Vince
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