Thanks!!! and an issue

[Jasem Mutlaq]

Hello Walter,

Glad you find KStars useful, welcome aboard! Regarding the FITS WCS error,
that's a bug fixed in recent KStars. Are you on KStars v3.5.6?

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Best Regards,
Jasem Mutlaq



On Sat, Nov 27, 2021 at 9:56 AM Walter Knesel <wknesel at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> First of all, I am a Linux person, and want to use windows as little as
> possible. Second, I have been an amateur  astronomer for over 20 yrs. and
> an astrophotographer for about 2 years. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU
> !!!!! for building a astrophotography platform that does not rely
> on Windows / ascom. And really works, and does not make me feel like a 2nd
> class citizen.
>
> I do like that I have been able to put indilib on a raspberry pi, runs my
> zwo devices, I can use my laptop in my house (warm) wirelessly. Save the
> pics
> on a pi flash drive or on my laptop. I do use windows deep sky stacker,
> would like to move that off windows.....  and I can use Gimp 2.10+ on Linux
> instead of
> photoshop / pix insight / etc.  I know stellar mate is out there, like
> building my own, and you have kept me out of an ASI air which means I could
> buy a non-zwo camera.
>
> Love it.
>
> I did run into something recently that was disappointing. Simply, because
> I did not do any alignment (or plate solve in particular), pointed the
> scope at the eclipse moon directly.
> I did get a preview picture (fits) of the moon, but I found I could not
> save any of them, because it had no world coordinates, ie. save would not
> work because the fits picture
> did not have and could not be plate solved to get those coordinates. I
> understand it wanting to complain about data it does not have. My complaint
> is that it needs to find a way
> to save the file anyway, no matter how problems it has. I realize a
> read-only file system would be a show stopper. But it should work if it
> can't get some / all the file header info
> it wants.
>
> My scenario is that I live with clouds, they stop me often enough. On this
> night, it was somewhat broken clouds in parts of the sky. By the time I
> really wanted to polar align,
> the clouds blocked that, essentially for the time I wanted to take photos.
> But I could crudely get past that (home position roughly pretty good). I
> had an optical, not camera,
> finder scope, and could get to the moon when clouds were not too heavy.
> Seeing stars however, was not possible. So plate solving was simply not
> going to work. So like I said,
> I could get a preview picture, but could not save it (always got the no
> coordinates error popup). You might tell me that if I had scheduled a
> single shot and told it where to save, that might have worked. I realized
> later that
> if I had been determined, I could have saved the whole preview window and
> clipped the picture of it with gimp later. But I really want preview save
> to work, and I think you all
> would too. I don't know but maybe the same problem might exist if somebody
> wanted to take preview snaps of the sun with a solar filter? I also
> understand if I had a DSLR
> as the camera, this would not be a problem, but I am one of the people who
> don't, so I really needed this to work.
>
> If there is other software that would work with ekos and let me save the
> photo, I am interested, but I currently doubt that kind of integration
> currently exists.
>
> Thanks again, I really appreciate all the work that has been done and is
> still going,
> Wally Knesel
>
>
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