indi-allsky VS astrometry.net

I'm working with Indi-Allsky application https://github.com/aaronwmorris/indi-allsky/wiki/Docker . I've gotten other docker images to work by copying the docker-compose.yaml and building from there but I think this repo want's me to run a bash installer etc... do I have to? or is there a way to just edit the config and build?

Plate solving - identifying constellations and deep sky objects by the relative positions of stars - is a pretty common part of astronomy software and possible on a raspberry pi. For example https://github.com/dstndstn/astrometry.net

I'm not aware of anything that can, say, identify a meteor and differentiate it from a plane or satellite, but I'm sure it's possible.

for platesolving to work in Siril, the focal length and pixel size should be fairly accurate to work. If you drizzled, that would reduce the pixel size by whatever drizzle amount you used. You can also upload a jpg to astrometry.net to find out what the parameters are in a blind solve

Try astrometry.net instead of astronomy.net :)

Starfixer.org is pretty cool and so is astrometry.net. But I'll give you my 2 cents as both an iPad Pro owner and also a faster computer. The math that happens when we do our processing is advanced - blows my mind. The iPad CPU is great for its use case, but you aren't going to find Chat GPT or other high-end, compute intensive workloads running on today's iPad. You can connect to the cloud, but you can't run the workload. As you said, we can't even find an app to open a single FITS image file because that along doesn't help many people do much if you can't stack and apply the other compute intensive work.

It most certainly is not better than astrometry.net. I just assumed that it would be beyond the capabilities of a Pi. We would need to put the index files on the Pi but could cut them down because our limiting magnitude is about 6.

I think I may have hurt myself in confusion. I just imported my target from stellarium and hit slew and center. This time it slewed and centered and uploaded to astrometry.net currenty I'm waiting to see how it goes with that. This is what happens when you take like half a year off from this hobby lol

You can upload a photo to astrometry.net and wait 10 minutes for it to tell you where you are pointed in the sky, make manual adjustments, and repeat. The way to make this efficient is to control your mount and camera from a computer, and use a program like APT or NINA to do the platesolving. That way your goto function is precise and there's no question about what you're looking at.

I took 186 6 second exposures at 200 ISO at 105mm(I live in a Bortle 7 area, edging at 8, needed to combat light pollution somehow), I also took 20 calllibration frames of each Dark Flats and Biases, and sent them into DeepSkyStacker for stacking, I know it has a comet feature, but I couldn't see the comet in my pictures, sso I hd no way to tell it where the comet was, so I did the norml steps, and thought, i'd get a small line, of the comet's movement, and that'd be enough for me, but after stacking and stretching the image, I am seeing no signs of the comet, and astrometry.net is unable to plate solve the stretched image(cpu limit reached!). I don't know what's wrong with it, other than the obvious clouds, but I've had that before in my andromeda pictures and DSS handled it well, and astrometry.net was able to plate solve it no problem.

http://astrometry.net/ uses a fairly standard technique to do this for stellar images, but I don't think the technique can be expanded to polygons