Issue with Align with StellarSolver

[Robert Lancaster]

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 it.

> On Oct 15, 2020, at 11:25 AM, Giles Coochey <giles at coochey.net> wrote:
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> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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> Thanks Robert,
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> I'm looking forward to being able to Solve directly on Windows, that's certainly a plus.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Giles Coochey

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