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		Ductapemaster on Sept 25, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The SR-71 Blackbird Astro-Nav System worked by tra... What software do you use to accomplish this?

malfist on Sept 25, 2023 [–]

I use ASTAP for most of my stuff. There's standard databases that have the stars in them, and it just does a lookup.

https://nova.astrometry.net/ will do the blind solve.

If you want to learn more the keyword to google is "plate solving"

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