Thanks Daniel for a really great video. Much of it mirrored my own experience with Tycho. What was new to me was the use of image calibration, pseudo flats and hot pixel removal. I will try these out at the first opportunity.
Great explanation here! It would be handy to add some sort of movement angle in the track list, if you have a lot of camera induced detections, they would usually all have the same motion vector, and you could exclude those out of the track list in a click.
Yes, I have looked at in the past, and while that generally holds true, it can still have a somewhat wide range of 30 degrees or more. For example, if it so happens that the artifacts are centered at PA of 260, plus or minus 15 degrees, then that coincides with the position angle of a large portion of main belt asteroids.
@@tychotracker true, but asteroids would generally vary in speed, while camera induced artefacts would all have the same speed and movement in that timeframe. That could easily be spotted by the software, and maybe filtered into another class “possible artefact” next to the high, medium , low and none?
I am overwhelmed by the Tycho software. Went through the setup video and got set up. What videos should I watch to get started? I have 75 minutes of 10 second FITS images on comet P12 and would like to see the motion of the comet. I've seen others do it using Tycho. Thanks.
Sure, as I mentioned in another comment, one way (of several) is to use JPL Horizons. Link to a tutorial video: ua-cam.com/video/M_TGGs0wSUM/v-deo.html
Exactly the tutorial I was looking for. 👍 Thank you. 🙂
Thanks Daniel for a really great video. Much of it mirrored my own experience with Tycho. What was new to me was the use of image calibration, pseudo flats and hot pixel removal. I will try these out at the first opportunity.
Great explanation here! It would be handy to add some sort of movement angle in the track list, if you have a lot of camera induced detections, they would usually all have the same motion vector, and you could exclude those out of the track list in a click.
Yes, I have looked at in the past, and while that generally holds true, it can still have a somewhat wide range of 30 degrees or more. For example, if it so happens that the artifacts are centered at PA of 260, plus or minus 15 degrees, then that coincides with the position angle of a large portion of main belt asteroids.
@@tychotracker true, but asteroids would generally vary in speed, while camera induced artefacts would all have the same speed and movement in that timeframe. That could easily be spotted by the software, and maybe filtered into another class “possible artefact” next to the high, medium , low and none?
Thanks for the in depth tutorial.
thanks for the insight Daniel.
I am overwhelmed by the Tycho software. Went through the setup video and got set up. What videos should I watch to get started? I have 75 minutes of 10 second FITS images on comet P12 and would like to see the motion of the comet. I've seen others do it using Tycho. Thanks.
Sure, as I mentioned in another comment, one way (of several) is to use JPL Horizons. Link to a tutorial video: ua-cam.com/video/M_TGGs0wSUM/v-deo.html