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    Equipment Note: Standardizing Our Plate-Solving Pipeline

    February 27, 2026 admin

    Different observers were using different plate-solving software to confirm target coordinates, which occasionally produced small position discrepancies between nodes reporting on the same object. We’ve now standardized the whole network on one open-source pipeline.

    This isn’t a glamorous change, but it’s the kind of quiet infrastructure work that keeps a volunteer-run archive actually usable for cross-referencing between observers years later.

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