Issue with Align with StellarSolver

[Giles Coochey]

On 15/10/2020 16:12, Robert Lancaster wrote:
> 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.
>
> The goal with the settings is to actually reduce the number of 
> settings by wrapping them up in the options profiles. Astrometry.net 
> <http://Astrometry.net>, 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
>
Thanks Robert,

I'm looking forward to being able to Solve directly on Windows, that's 
certainly a plus.

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.

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.

-- 
Giles Coochey

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