Turning off Plate Solve AstroBin Platform open discussions community forum · Alan Brunelle · ... · 3 · 130 · 0

This will certainly fall into the "It was right in front of your eyes" catagory, but I am left with no other solution.

When I post an image that has no stars and cannot be plate solved by the AstroBin engine I hate to have the plate solve repeatedly attempt to do so and fail over and over again, even days later.  I know that at some point it eventually gives up entirely.  Is there a radio button that would allow me to turn that off while assembling a post?  Can it be left on for revisions that can be plate solved?  I know my starless images fail, but often I present the same image with stars and the revisions can be plate solved.  That is a good thing.

At a slightly higher level of sophistication, if my starless image has already been plate solved in PI, is there a way to manually enter the parameters into AstroBin so that starless images can be annotated?  In such a case, I would turn off the annotation of any stars, but leave those items that are appropriate.

Please do not laugh at me, my wife does that enough when she points to objects I can't find that are right in front of me…

Thanks,
Alan

Oscar, thanks!  And a big doh! for me!