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Remote Astrometry

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Remote Astrometry was created by vince

Hoping someone can point me in the right direction to use remote astrometry.

The online version works fine. I installed the astrometry driver on my RPI/INDIserver. I downloaded the index FITS files. I moved them to /usr/share/astrometry/. I've added the Asrometry aux driver in my equipment profile. Capture and solve and "solver failed." I don't find the logs to be particularly informative:


[2020-05-18T21:20:41.603 Pacific Daylight Time INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.align] - "Image received."
[2020-05-18T21:20:42.315 Pacific Daylight Time INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.align] - "Starting remote solver..."
[2020-05-18T21:20:42.409 Pacific Daylight Time INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - Astrometry : "[INFO] Astrometry solver is enabled. "
[2020-05-18T21:20:42.423 Pacific Daylight Time DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - < Astrometry >: < ASTROMETRY_RESULTS >
[2020-05-18T21:20:43.464 Pacific Daylight Time INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - Astrometry : "[INFO] Solving image... "
[2020-05-18T21:20:43.479 Pacific Daylight Time DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - Astrometry : "[DEBUG] /usr/bin/solve-field -O --no-plots --no-verify --resort --downsample 2 -L 36.6532 -H 40.5114 -u aw -3 149.307 -4 68.9746 -5 30 -W /tmp/solution.wcs /tmp/ccdsolver.fits "
[2020-05-18T21:20:43.493 Pacific Daylight Time DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - Astrometry : "[DEBUG] Reading input file 1 of 1: \"/tmp/ccdsolver.fits\"... "
[2020-05-18T21:20:48.247 Pacific Daylight Time INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.align] - "Solver failed. Try again."
[2020-05-18T21:20:48.297 Pacific Daylight Time INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - Astrometry : "[INFO] Solver failed. "
[2020-05-18T21:20:48.313 Pacific Daylight Time INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - Astrometry : "[INFO] Astrometry solver is disabled. "

Any insight would be appreciated.
Thanks.
3 years 10 months ago #54124

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Replied by David James on topic Remote Astrometry

"Remote" I believe is if you set up an Astrometry server on, say, a computer elsewhere on your home network with more space and/or processing power than what you're using at the mount and point your controlling Ekos installation to that server.

As you've got an RPi and have downloaded the index FITS to it, you just need to select "Offline" on the Align tab. You don't need the Astrometry Aux device at all; that would be for the case above.
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Replied by vince on topic Remote Astrometry

I don't see an offline option. Only remote or online.
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Replied by David James on topic Remote Astrometry

Have you got the program 'astrometry.net' installed, as per below? Your initial post says you installed the driver but I don't know if by that you mean what is below or something else.

indilib.org/support/tutorials/137-alignm...with-eqmod-ekos.html
indilib.org/about/ekos/alignment-module.html
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Replied by vince on topic Remote Astrometry

I believe I did:
sudo apt-get install astrometry.net
per this: indilib.org/about/ekos/alignment-module.html
I did not do:
sudo apt-get install kstars-bleeding astrometry.net

Is there a way to check that I installed the program correctly?
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Replied by David James on topic Remote Astrometry

Can check on both astrometry.net and kstars-bleeding with the 'apt-cache policy':

astroberry@astroberry:~ $ apt-cache policy astrometry.net
astrometry.net:
Installed: 0.76+dfsg-3+b1
Candidate: 0.76+dfsg-3+b1
Version table:
*** 0.76+dfsg-3+b1 500
500 raspbian.raspberrypi.org/raspbian buster/main armhf Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

astroberry@astroberry:~ $ apt-cache policy kstars-bleeding
kstars-bleeding:
Installed: 6:3.4.0
Candidate: 6:3.4.2
Version table:
6:3.4.2 500
500 www.astroberry.io/repo buster/main armhf Packages
*** 6:3.4.0 100
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
Last edit: 3 years 9 months ago by David James.
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Replied by David James on topic Remote Astrometry

Let's also take a look at the permissions of the astrometry files themselves:

astroberry@astroberry:~ $ ls -lh /usr/share/astrometry/
total 9.7G
-rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nogroup 101M Dec 7 2014 index-4202-00.fits
-rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nogroup 104M Dec 7 2014 index-4202-01.fits
... etc ...
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Replied by vince on topic Remote Astrometry

astrometry looks good:
Installed: 0.67+dfsg-1

kstars-bleeding (presumably this is the issue?
Installed: (none)

permissions:
total 2.3G
drwxr -xr -x 3 root root 4.0K Dec 7 2014 doc
-rw-r--r-- 1 vince vince 179M Dec 7 2014 index-4201-00.fits
etc..
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Replied by David James on topic Remote Astrometry

You must have Kstars from the OS's repository installed? It's possible that version isn't recent enough to support offline astrometry plate solving.

So yes, best get the Kstars from the ppa in the links previously.

To help in daylight and without need of attaching mounts and such, you can create an additional Ekos profile. I call mine "Simulators" and I add a bunch of things like
Telescope Simulator for the mount
CCD Simulator for the imaging camera
Guide Simulator for the guide camera
That allows you to do a certain amount of "playing around".
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Replied by vince on topic Remote Astrometry

Thanks for your help! I installed kstars-bleeding. Will test tonight and report back.
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Replied by vince on topic Remote Astrometry

Yeah... so still doesn't work. Let's go over my setup real quick:

INDI server running on RPi3. Now includes the astrometry driver which i confirmed is running.
I've confirmed that the astrometry program is installed as is Kstars (but I haven't done anything with them... should I be launching Kstars on the pi?)
Kstars/EKOS client is a Windows 10 machine.
The equipment profile has Astrometry as an Aux driver.
We've confirmed the index files are where they are supposed to be and permissions are ok.
I get the same behavior: it captures a picture, sends it to the solver and then solver fails.

What else can I try?
3 years 9 months ago #54204

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Replied by Jasem Mutlaq on topic Remote Astrometry

On Windows, Offline is not available, so you have to select remote and select Astrometry driver in your equipment profile.
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