The astrometric and photometric calibration was the main feature of Astroart. It is assisted by a integrated star atlas (18 Million stars, up to 15° mag. compressed into 250 Mbytes on CD), based on the GSC catalog. The USNO catalog is also supported (all stars up to 19.5° mag).



With just a few mouse clicks it's possible to assign the reference stars of the image, for the subsequent reduction. Since 1998 many amateur astronomers are using Astroart for photometry and astrometry on comets, minor planets and supernovas.
 

After measuring RA, DEC. and magnitude of minor planets or comets, a correctly formatted report should be sent to the MPC.



Astroart automatically creates a correct report from your measures, saving you a lot of precious time.

This is one of the fastest star charts available now for Windows™. On a standard PC (1 Ghz) it can explore the star fields at 10 frames/sec.old using the GSC and USNO together (all stars until 19° magnitude) For every star it's included the maximum error (position and magnitude).



The star atlas supports also the UCAC2 and USNOB catalogs. All minor planets are calculated from the MPCORB catalog (in only two seconds on a 1 Ghz PC). The atlas can be used rotated by any angle to easily identify the photographed zone.
 

Astroart strictly follows all recommendations of FITS and WCS standards, and let the user to edit safely the Header.



The Header can be used as a simple text file, with Copy and Paste, and some keywords can be saved in the Preferences.