Time to solve (note that it's a semilog plot!):

http://trac.astrometry.net/attachment/wiki/SolveSeries/solvetime.png?format=raw

http://trac.astrometry.net/attachment/wiki/SolveSeries/solvetime2.png?format=raw

Field

Field + Quad

Field + All Quads

Field Rotated

Field Rotated + Quad

Field Rotated + Quad + Box

Field Rotated + All Quads

Field Rotated + All Quads + Box

Index

Index + Quad

Index + All Quads

Index + Field + Quad + Box

Index + Field + All Quads + Box

Field

http://trac.astrometry.net/attachment/wiki/SolveSeries/d16.png?format=raw

Field + Field Quad

http://trac.astrometry.net/attachment/wiki/SolveSeries/d15.png?format=raw

Field + All Indexed Field Quads

http://trac.astrometry.net/attachment/wiki/SolveSeries/d14.png?format=raw

Field Translated, Scaled, Rotated so that quads overlay

http://trac.astrometry.net/attachment/wiki/SolveSeries/d9.png?format=raw

Index

http://trac.astrometry.net/attachment/wiki/SolveSeries/d8.png?format=raw

Index + Matching Index Quad

http://trac.astrometry.net/attachment/wiki/SolveSeries/d7.png?format=raw

Index + All Matching Index Quads

http://trac.astrometry.net/attachment/wiki/SolveSeries/d17.png?format=raw

Index + Field overlay

http://trac.astrometry.net/attachment/wiki/SolveSeries/d6.png?format=raw

Index + Field (All Indexed Quads) overlay

http://trac.astrometry.net/attachment/wiki/SolveSeries/d18.png?format=raw

Index + USNOB

http://trac.astrometry.net/attachment/wiki/SolveSeries/d10.png?format=raw http://trac.astrometry.net/attachment/wiki/SolveSeries/d11.png?format=raw

USNOB

http://trac.astrometry.net/attachment/wiki/SolveSeries/d12.png?format=raw http://trac.astrometry.net/attachment/wiki/SolveSeries/d13.png?format=raw

Why Do We Fail?

Here's one: Huge Diffraction Spike

There's a huge diffraction spike, so we select false objects in our cut. (The field is aligned vertically near the center of the field. Unfortunately it's a bit of a pain to get the field boundaries so I haven't made that picture yet.)

http://trac.astrometry.net/attachment/wiki/SolveSeries/diffr2.png?format=raw

http://trac.astrometry.net/attachment/wiki/SolveSeries/diffr.png?format=raw

Here's one where USNOB has a weird overdensity (double-scanned plate? plate overlap?) It's not an obvious show-stopper, but it's something weird.

http://monte.ai.toronto.edu:8080/usnob/map.html?SDSS_FILE=1&SDSS_FIELD=3256&nf=300&view=usnob&ra=202.78&dec=8.41&zoom=9&HP=6&over=no

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