It will be nice to provide download link. 

In future this program will be freeware?
And what about Linux and other platforms (ask this question because see some wx programs on yours site)?

Nice work 
When the Linux version will be released I will try to help you with application testing and making installing packages . For the first time i think emulation with Wine will be enough.

Something like that is trying to develop Leonid Tkachook...

Do you know about SCAMP - Sextractor package that is dedicated to solve the same tasks (stars detecting - DSOs extracting - plate solving - photometry+astrometry)?

Yes, I know sextractor - it does a pretty good job on photometry but not as "good" for plate solving at least not if you don?t provide reasonable good coordinates, fov, etc. On top of that it only works with fits images and also you need an unix flavor or at least cygwin. I wrote this application in the idea to be of use to the average amateur astronomer which isn?t necessary an IT professional Also by difference with sextractor I also do asteroids, artificial earth satellites and a bunch of other types of catalogs at once. Sure, you can do that with sextractor as well but then again you will need to write a script to put together all that functionality Then again for those confident enough with unix and willing to play hard there are many tools out here like iraf, gaia, etc.

Do you plan to add some scripting and/or external automation possibilities to your software? This functionality could help automate a routine work for detecting asteroids, novae, etc. on image sets. Commercially available sofware for amateurs usually lacks this functionality.

Well, in more then 16 years in IT ? I mostly worked on unix and less then 1% on windows ... so you reckon ? most certainly I will be adding the scripting capabilities and means to do/call externals for automation. I am already storing the astrometry data in readable formats csv, xml and mysql. And I also wrote some routines to import/export data (connect) with other applications in the field.
But, anyway I will do more work on this latter ? right now I want to get a stable release to help (encourage) the beginner make a step forward by providing him with easy means to analyze and learn more about his astrophoto? and I am afraid that a package like sextractor could scare them away to start with ? am I wrong ?

Larry

I also guess your software executes some similar work like e.g. Astrometrica does, although less precise (or not less?!). What can you say about asteroid & comet measurments and their search tools?
 

Hi Roman,

. I have not benchmark it against Astrometrica yet (only did some checking with aladin) but it should be at least as good for the plate-solving tasks. And well, the precision will go hand in hand with the quality of the photo - there are several parameters you can tweak to allow for lower quality pictures to solved but the errors could also popup - and in that case I do some statistical corrections. I don?t know if Astrometrica has that much tolerance to errors and/or statistical corrections. I put here a few sample of low quality images solved: http://larryo.org/work/information/unimap/low_q_solved.html

As for asteroid & comet measurements, at this it will show you the position/trajectory intersecting your image based on the very latest orbital parameters. There is also a module for "discovery" but it?s yet in its infancy

Larry

I am wondering if people here find this application useful? At the concept level what do you think I should change/add to improve it?

Version 0.0.3 pre-alpha is now available for download from:

http://larryo.org/work/information/unimap/download.html

Larry