On my week in the wilderness I started paper I in the automated astrometry series. This was inspired by Sam going "alpha" with the SDSS automatic WCS system. It seems to solve about 90 percent of SDSS fields straight out of the box (ie, give it an x,y list of stars in an SDSS image, it gives you back the pointing, rotation, and scale); it remains to be seen how we can tweak it up so it does them all.
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