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<p>By the way, I saw your commits, and so built and loaded a test
image which failed before. This worked very well with the default
settings:<br>
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<p>Evaluating Installed RAM for inParallel Option. Total Size of
Index files: 31.7369 GB, Installed RAM: 7.64153 GB<br>
Not enough RAM is available on this system for loading the index
files you have in parallel<br>
Disabling the inParallel option.<br>
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Starting Internal StellarSolver Sextractor. . .<br>
Stars Found before Filtering: 3097<br>
Removing the stars with a/b ratios greater than 1.5<br>
Keeping just the 50 brightest stars<br>
Stars Found after Filtering: 50<br>
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Configuring StellarSolver<br>
Set odds ratio to solve to 1e+09 (log = 20.7233)<br>
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Scale range: 2.35182 to 2.87444 arcsec/pixel<br>
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Downsampling is multiplying the scale by: 2<br>
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Starting Internal StellarSolver Astrometry.net based Engine. . .<br>
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Solve Log Odds: 222.518<br>
Number of Matches: 40<br>
Solved with index: 4108<br>
Field center: (RA,Dec) = (38.1603, 62.6568) deg.<br>
Field center: (RA H:M:S, Dec D:M:S) = (02:32:38.463,
+62:39:24.581).<br>
Field is: (128.653, 115.819) deg from search coords.<br>
Field size: 1.70109 x 1.28661 degrees<br>
Pixel Scale: 1.31564"<br>
Field rotation angle: up is -138.765 degrees E of N<br>
Field parity: neg<br>
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Internal Sextractor w/ StellarSolver took a total of: 5.101
second(s).<br>
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Sounds great, thank you very much. Yeah for at least the next
day, I will have too much work to do to even look at it. But I
definitely should be able to check it out on Friday Afternoon or
Saturday. It is interesting that based on the forums and all the
testing, its now working great for everyone on all platforms
except the Pi. All the issues in the last couple of days except
this were related to incorrect scale information in the image that
they were trying to solve. I am hoping that this is just something
related to memory and it is easy to clear up, but I will look into
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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
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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 class="">Thanks Robert,</p>
<p class="">I'm looking forward to being able to Solve
directly on Windows, that's certainly a plus.</p>
<p class="">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 class="">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 class="">
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