Hi folks -- I'm trying this for the second and final time, just in case this got ignored earlier because of formal mistakes in the submission, or holidays, or ...
It's a package that our project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/astromate/) would benefit immensely from, as the routine of installing cygwin, selecting (all of the) the required packages and compiling astrometry.net is beyond the skills of the target audience (amateur astronomers). Not included in any of the major distros. Included is a small subset of the freely available Tycho-2 star catalogue, which can be used for testing the installation: cd /usr/local/astrometry/examples; ../bin/solve-field.exe apod4.jpg For a comprehensive sky catalogue, see http://trac.astrometry.net/browser/trunk/src/astrometry/GETTING-INDICES category: Science requires: cairo libcairo2 python-cairo libnetpbm10 netpbm libpng14 libjpeg8 zlib zlib0 python python-numpy pkg-config cygwin sdesc: "Astrometry.net astrometrical solver." ldesc: "Astrometry.net analyses an astronomical image (photograph of the night sky) to output, among other things, the central coordinate of the image, the visible field of view, and the list of deep sky objects potentially visible within the field." wget \ http://rubor.org/astrometrytortilla/astrometry.net/astrometry.net-0.38-1.tar.bz2 \ http://rubor.org/astrometrytortilla/astrometry.net/astrometry.net-0.38-1-src.tar.bz2 \ http://rubor.org/astrometrytortilla/astrometry.net/setup.hint
