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+stellarsolver Astrometric Plate Solver
+
+stellarsolver is a cross platform SEP-based star extractor and
+astrometry.net-based internal astrometric solver. Also refered to as
+Plate solving or Astrometric calibration of an astronomical image,
+this is a technique used in astronomy and applied on celestial images.
+the astrometric solution it is possible to calculate the celestial
+coordinates of any object on the image or synchronize the telescope
+mount or satellite pointing position to the center of the image taken.
+
+stellarsolver is required to compile Kstars with INDI support.