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Solver is not working

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Replied by Paul on topic Solver is not working

Gene,

There are two things to consider here

1) The first time it always solves correctly
2) I use the same settings on a year old version and it works flawlessly

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Replied by Gene N on topic Solver is not working

Hi Paul,

Which two versions?

Could you share a FIT's that exhibits this?

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Replied by Paul on topic Solver is not working

Gene,

I don't have a FITS file and the logs don't seem to show up anything, but I don't have them all enabled.

I also didn't have any issues until a build in November, but I cannot recall the date, but it has been happening with all builds since.

It is under Raspberry Pi OS 64 bit 2022-12-31.

The working version is a build on Raspbery Pi OS 32 bit 2022-02-04.

I may be wrong, but It appears to be a programming issue since there were no configuration changes when it first failed, although I have tried lots of changes since.

The problem is that it doesn;t get to astronomical darkness until about 10:30pm and so there is little time to test it as I want to actually collect data, before I swap over to the working version.

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Replied by Gene N on topic Solver is not working

HI Paul,

For the version, Kstars main screen->Help->About Kstars
The Version is at top and BuildDate is below "Desktop Planetarium"

Is INDI the same on both or also build versions different?
indiserver -V

You have the same astrometry files on both the good and bad versions?
/usr/share/astrometry

Yes, I have seen where it works first time and fails on subsequent, always with the 'blind solve' messages.

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Replied by Paul on topic Solver is not working

Gene,

The version dates were both obtained from the About Kstars window; ignoring the time.

I have both running Local ASTAP with H18.

The problem happens with internal solver and ASTAP.

INDI is different on each version - it was the version available at the time I did the builds - which are now 10 months apart.

On the assumption this would be fixed, I have done rebuilds about half a dozen times over the last two months, some with a complete build and others incremental.

I have also gone through all the alignment settings and found the only one that is defferent is Align - Align Options Profile Editor - Conv FWHM which is 2 on the older 32bit working version but 1 on the current 64bit failing version.

There are a few new settings Thresh Multiple - 2, Thresh Offset - 0 and Conv Filter - Guassian.

indiserver -V
32 bit
2023-01-03T02:10:21: startup: indiserver -V
Usage: indiserver [options] driver [driver ...]
Purpose: server for local and remote INDI drivers
INDI Library: 1.9.5
Code v1.9.4-17-g7df8ca6d0. Protocol 1.7.

64 bit
2023-01-03T03:02:24: startup: indiserver -V
Usage: indiserver [options] driver [driver ...]
Purpose: server for local and remote INDI drivers
INDI Library: 1.9.9
Code v1.9.9-35-g307881967. Protocol 1.7.



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Replied by Gene N on topic Solver is not working

Hi Paul,

In the directory /usr/share/astrometry, do you have the same files on both systems? What index's are loaded there?

Sorry if I seem to be pedantic about the version but on the Kstars 'About' I see a 'Version'


The Kstars GIT shows these update dates:
invent.kde.org/education/kstars/-/blob/master/ChangeLog

You are listing 12/31 as a build date for Kstar's?
It is under Raspberry Pi OS 64 bit 2022-12-31.

The working version is a build on Raspbery Pi OS 32 bit 2022-02-04.


Your 2/4/22 date would have source from
3.5.7

I am running 3.6.0 with last change
3.6.0 (Contact):
5764593a0 2022-07-28 Yuri Chornoivan


I do agree something is broken.
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Replied by Gene N on topic Solver is not working

Hi Paul,

You mentioned the FWHM setting is different from the working to the non-working.

I played with most of the settings and can get it to fail or not fail based on individual or combination settings for:
BINing on capture page
MIN-area
CONV-fwhm
R-min

Next I took the /tmp FIT's file generated and fed it manually into stellar-solver, no problems solving
solve-field --overwrite --scale-low 1 --scale-high 3 --scale-units arcsecperpix --ra 252 --dec 45.4 --radius 20 --objs 160 --no-plots --use-sextractor --scale-low 1 --scale-high 3 ./solver75b2eb09713047d589f5dbaf2b38601a.fits

log-odds ratio 131.147 (9.04427e+56), 23 match, 0 conflict, 4 distractors, 64 index.
RA,Dec = (252.544,45.4208), pixel scale 1.19321 arcsec/pix.
Hit/miss: Hit/miss: ++++++-+++++++++++++++-+--+(best)++++
Field 1: solved with index index-4204-10.fits.

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Replied by Paul on topic Solver is not working

Gene,

I am not running a stable version in either case, that is why I keep many versions to allow me to keep working when things fail.

So, the version is whatever was available from the repository at the date of the build.

I have also noticed that a new Option has appeared under StellarSolver Options - Automatic and Manual rotator control.

This was selected even though I did not do it and even though I have no rotator, and I have now deselected it to see if it has any impact.

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Replied by Paul on topic Solver is not working

Gene,

The new Option under StellarSolver Options - Automatic and Manual rotator control - seems to be the cause of the issue.

Even though I have no rotator, it was selected (not by me) and and I have now deselected it and the solving seems to be working again.

This option should not be selectable unless you have a rotator.

Paul
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Replied by Jasem Mutlaq on topic Solver is not working

It shouldn't have an impact if you don't have a rotator. Please list the steps to reproduce this issue with this option checked.
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Replied by Gene N on topic Solver is not working

One thing that would help is having functional logging for astrometry.
I am running Kstars 3.6.0 32 bit
Logs: Verbose
Ekos: INDI + Alignment
Astrometry:: LOG_ALL, SeperateLogFile, /tmp/astrometryLog.txt

I can choose any of the LOG_ALL/LOG_MSG, etc and get no files in /tmp dealing with logging.
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Replied by Paul on topic Solver is not working

Gene,

I did have logging for astrometry running and included the output in an earlier post.

Paul
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