This is one of the coolest things I've seen in a long time.

code.flickr.com/blog/2009/02/18/found-in-space/

Sure is Al,

I have been using it for a while, see:
www.flickr.com/photos/steveroche/3158799...t-72157611846266797/

Nice to know what I imaged

Best regards

steve

That is scary cool!

Oh wow! That's pretty neat! .... this so needs testing

*wanders off to Flickr*

In my un-scientific test, it scores 50% ... granted I only sent it two images, but still, I'm happy enough with it getting half of them right ... though I'm a bit surprised it missed Orion!

Success:
www.flickr.com/photos/bbusschots/2845745081/

Fail
www.flickr.com/photos/bbusschots/3246057772/

Bart.

Submitted 3 images all taken with the same set up which give an image scale of 3.14 arcsec/pixel but the plate solve gave a range of 6-17 arcsec/pixel. Work still to do on this I think.

I sent in about six images, some of Holmes, as it looked like they were looking for images. The items it picked out in all images were spot on. What I was a little disappointed in was that it only named the principle features, and seemed to ignore the lesser stars in the field.

However as a result of submitting the images, I've had a huge increase in the number of viewings of pictures on my Flickr page - 839 yesterday, previous high was 93 in one day. At least I assume that its responsible for the increase in traffic, I haven't done anything else recently and my pics really aren't that good to warrant the attention.