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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 15/10/2020 16:12, Robert Lancaster
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I will definitely check this out tomorrow. That is not the
correct amount of memory obviously. In this case, it should
detect that there is not enough memory and disable the option to
load all the indexes concurrently.
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<div class="">The goal with the settings is to actually reduce the
number of settings by wrapping them up in the options profiles.
<a href="http://Astrometry.net" class="" moz-do-not-send="true">Astrometry.net</a>,
sextractor, and kstars had huge amounts of different settings
that would make astrometry work or fail. The options are hidden
and all in different places. I’m trying to consolidate that.
Once this is perfected, unless you have a special case, you
should just be able to select from several profiles and not even
have to look at all the settings like downsample, min width, max
width etc etc etc. I’m trying to perfect a set of settings that
work well for most people, so that you can just select that and
go with it.</div>
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<div class="">I’m sorry that it is taking a while to perfect the
integration, but on my machine, due to the optimizations and
parallelization that I added, the stellarsolver library has
reduced the solving time from several minutes to several seconds
for most images, and now it can solve images that were not
solvable before. It can blind solve images that have no
information about them including Jpegs in several seconds. In
addition, this new library makes it possible for users on
windows to solve just as quickly as on Linux without installing
all kinds of extra packages that must be installed in
compatibility layers. It also resolves issues on Macs, where
people’s python installations make astrometry have all sorts of
problems. And third, it will allow us to stop reading and
writing so many temporary files to the Pi’s file system, because
that wears it out.</div>
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<div class="">So yes, I know that astrometry was working before on
your system and this might not work perfectly yet, but please be
patient while we perfect it because I have been working hard on
this project for many months since February and I think it will
really help for a lot of users. Again, it was not my plan to
put it into KStars master before we were ready, but please be
patient.</div>
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<p>Thanks Robert,</p>
<p>I'm looking forward to being able to Solve directly on Windows,
that's certainly a plus.</p>
<p>Don't apologize, I just saw the talk about StellarSolver, some
reports of issues, and discussion of features and so, out of
curiosity, went out and built the test versions to give it a try,
unfortunately, not yet stable on my Pi, so thought I'd send some
feedback.</p>
<p>Now I'm back at 3.4.3 from the Astroberry repo, but would love to
be able to run the SEP Multistar guiding on Astroberry as well, so
thought I'd take a look. Happy to give it another try once you've
had a look.<br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Giles Coochey</pre>
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