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DSS Offline HiPS

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Replied by Picard on topic DSS Offline HiPS

Thx Euripides. It seems to work fine.
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Replied by Euripides on topic DSS Offline HiPS

It would be great @Jasem if we had a how to activate this great feature and download those files.
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Replied by Jasem Mutlaq on topic DSS Offline HiPS

I can prepare a package with 3rd , 4th, and 5th levels included. The only issue is hosting it on CDN. We can't make it available on INDI website, that would be too much bandwidth. Maybe we can put it up on KDE though, but I'm open to suggestions.
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Replied by Andrew on topic DSS Offline HiPS

3rd level at wide FOV zoom level can be a bit sluggish, So, I recommend including Level 2. Level 4 can just be omitted if it is smart enough to seamlessly go from 3 to 5, which from my tests appears to be the case. 3 is good enough to see most of what's in an area. and 5 is good for detail and framing. 4 is just superfluous IMHO, but some may want it, so perhaps create separate archives people can choose from to download.
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Replied by maxthebuilder on topic DSS Offline HiPS

I just (2 hours ago) updated my SM 1.7.0 64bit (RST-136, two ZWO cameras, EAF) to 1.7.1 64bit.
All seems to be working and
usr/share/kstars/hips directory is already populated with Norder3 and Norder5 folders/images.

Just reporting.
-- Max S
ZWO AM5. RST-135. AZ-GTI. HEQ5. iOptron SkyTracker.
TPO RC6. FRA400. Rokinon 135 and other lenses.
ZWO ASI2600MC. D5500 modified with UVIR clip-in filter.
ZWO ASI120MM Mini x 2. ZWO 30F4 guider. Orion 50mm guider.
ZWO EAF x 2.
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Replied by Peter Sütterlin on topic DSS Offline HiPS

So I just installed the Norder3 and Norder5 files from Euripides' link (Thanks!).
Is the other data also easily accessible somewhere? (For those that don't mind the data usage)? Also, some switch might be nice to tell KStars to only use the installed files. At least I do see some net use when zooming in and out, and ~/.cache/kstars/hips fills (or is it caching locally installed files, too?)
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Replied by Rafa Barberá on topic DSS Offline HiPS

Hummm... norder5 is to wide for my framing intents. I will need 6 or 7, but I can't find any instructions about how to download those datasets. Are there any available info, scripts?
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Replied by Euripides on topic DSS Offline HiPS

If I am not mistaken Jasem has already included those files into Stellarmate by default.
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Replied by Giles on topic DSS Offline HiPS

Somthing like:

wget --mirror <location of Norder7 files on the web>

Might need to remove some html files that get lumped in.
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Replied by Rafa Barberá on topic DSS Offline HiPS

Probably, but not all of us are using Stellarmate ;)
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Replied by Euripides on topic DSS Offline HiPS

Totally agree with you Rafa, I've just mentioned that cause I was sure that I saw it written somewhere :-)

And I just found it, on the Stellarmate's FB page:

Did you know that DSS Offline HiPS is already included with #StellarMate? Levels 3 and 5 are included by default. To enable to go to HiPS settings and set the DSS Offline Source to /usr/share/kstars/HIPS and you're set!
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Replied by Giles on topic DSS Offline HiPS

From what I can see Norder7 is probably about 20GB in size, looks to be composed of around 200,000 JPG files each around 100K in size.

alasky.cds.unistra.fr/DSS/DSSColor/Norder7/
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