alphatesting
There are two options for testing the Astrometry.net software: There is a user-friendly web service and a downloadable software package for the computer-savvy.
web: If you are interested in becoming an alpha tester for
the web version, please send email to
stating your interest and describing the kinds of data you have for
use with the service. Please include in your email an example image
or a URL pointing to one.
download: If you want to try downloading and building our software on your local Linux, unix, or Mac box, (or maybe even Cygwin in Windows) then (1) download the source astrometry.net-0.25.tar.bz2 (or astrometry.net-0.25.tar.gz), and (2) read the README file. Although the code is released under a GPL license, you will also need to download some data files, and these are distributed under a different license; see the GETTING-INDICES file for details.