This should be relatively trivial, and an opportunity to do some science.
I have a windows forms project that displays & detects point sources (stars) in an image. The point source locations can be in double arrays, or written to text file, etc., as needed.
These x/y locations need to be sent to astrometry.net for World Coordinate System fitting. They specify their API JSON interface rules here:
Nova.astrometry.net: API — Astrometry.net master documentation[
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but this is not something I'm familiar with coding. Seems like I should just be able to use webservices. There is basically just a request or two and then waiting for output.
The idea is that I have everything required, I just need to know how to send the request & data and read the response, using webservices. This would be run inside a button press on the form. I would need to monitor the output from the server for a minute or two as it solves the solution, and so I would put that part in a timer, run in a backgroundworker so that it was cancellable, etc. I know how to do all that windows-formy VS c++ stuff...just not familiar with using webservices to send JSON requests and read the output.
Cheers.
What I have tried:
Nothing yet. I can code windows Forms and timers and background workers and data analysis etc. in my sleep. Just not familiar with webservices. The API instructions they provide should make it trivial for someone who knows what they're doing with JSON and webservices.
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