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han.k posted a comment on discussion General discussions ASTAP
For the record: To summarize which ASTAP versions are available: These ASTAP package are available for RPI 64 bit. The RPI has an aarch64 equals an arm64 processor https://sourceforge.net/projects/astap-program/files/linux_installer/astap_aarch64.pkg.tar.zst/download https://sourceforge.net/projects/astap-program/files/linux_installer/astap_aarch64.tar.gz/download https://sourceforge.net/projects/astap-program/files/linux_installer/astap_aarch64_qt5.tar.gz/download https://sourceforge.net/projects/astap-program/files/linux_installer/astap_aarch64.deb/download...
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astap program updated /linux_installer/astap_aarch64.pkg.tar.zst
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'v2026.03.27'
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Flipped means e.g north is up and east is on the right for the data in the file. It is important for the astrometic solution to know. For a flipped image, if north is up, you only have to flip horizontal to get the image "correctly". Flipping is caused by your telescope. The image is then upside down or left and right are swapped. Not both because that is like a rotation. cs, Han
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Mark Phillips modified a comment on discussion General discussions ASTAP
Yes I see that. But whatever I set the flip vertical or horizontal to it always shows an F. So I can't see which is flipped - or not. And when I know the image is correct it also still shows an F. Can the View menu show which are selected? Thanks
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Yes I see that. But whatever I set the flip vertical or horizontal to it always shows an F. So I can't see which is flipped - or not. And when I know the omage is correct it also still shows an F. Can the View menu show which are selected? Thanks
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Hi Mark, Yes see. It happens if the view is flipped. If you uncheck the View under main menu View it should be correct. So if the the image is saved, north will be up. If it is flipped (indicated with a F at the north arrow), east will be on the right side. cs, Han
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Hi Han I have a found a few situations that when I rotate an image: Rotate image - Rotate arbitrary - and enter N for north up it sometimes (not always) leaves it 180° out. I can then rotate by 180 to correct but it seems odd. Thanks
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Put the file is in your home directory. If you have the files in your home directory, you no longer need the .zst file and can delete it. You just need the astap executable and the star database files like the D50 or D80,. in one folder anywhere.
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James Thornton posted a comment on discussion General discussions ASTAP
Han - yes the root directory is overwritten. Hower the home directory is not. MW4 installs in the directory the installation file is in. So in my case it installs in home/mw4. I actually copied the Astap .zst file to my home/astap directory, but when it runs, it puts all the files in the root directory /opt/astap. SMPro or kstars can also use Astap instead of Stellarsolver. I think if its in the home directory i can point both SMPro in the root directory and MW4 in the home directory to Astap in...
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It doesn't matter for me. Probably the direct link works better for most users. I have a download counter, so I see when it is downloaded. Repository. Is the /opt/astap overwritten when there is an update? I doubt it. I do not expect major updates for the solver part. For MW4, the current version should fine for some years. Han
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'v2026.03.25'
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Jasem had good question. Was wondering if it is ok to publish the link to your arch linux file direct on SMPro repisitory or better to the main page and reference the arch linux file.
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You can put the ATAP files anywhere. As long the astap executable and star database filess are in one directory. So you put them in your home directory somwhere in a subdirectory. Moving the files around is not problem. cs, Han
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this is what i received from Jasem/Pouya: Yes, thank you for it. Regarding the upgrade, your /home/stellarmate is persistent, but you will lose your changes on /opt/astap, so you will need to copy it to /home/ to make it persistent https://stellarmate.com/support/faq/stellarmate/how-to-install-mw4-on-sm-os-2-0.html https://stellarmate.com/support/faq/stellarmate/how-to-install-astap-on-sm-os-2-0.html i noted the errors on the copyright.txt file not copying over and that the .lck file needed to be...
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There was some issue im trying to get clarification on from Jasem/Pouya. They told me to solve the update issue, everyting not "Stellarmate" needs to move out of the root directory into the home directory. i noticed the .zst files (app and data) loaded from a home folder location home/astap / directly to a root file (/opt/astap). i'm trying to get them to explain exactly what needs to be done with the .zst files as i may have missed something. When i tried to move the 1459 files from the root /opt/astap...
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Hi Jim, Managed to compile for aarch64, GTK3 on my RPI4. Put the executable in the packges. Not tested but should work. cs, Han
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'v2026.03.24'
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'v2026.03.20'
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'v2026.03.19'
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Michel (MW4) said: Hi Jim, great to hear an good compilation of what to do. Sidenote: with 4.0.0 of MW4 coming (actually first betas) step 8 will go away, because I moved from PyQt5 to PySide6, which brings aarch64 architecture with it and you don't need precompiled packages anymore. Michel
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I think Jasem/Pouya are working to resolve the atomic update issues which will reportedly wipe MW4 and ASTAP changes with each update.
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This is what I did to install MW4 and ASTAP on SMPro. This was communicated to Jasem/Pouya (SM), MW4 (Michel), ASTAP (Han) For mw4 there are installation instructions at https://mworion.github.io/MountWizzard4/install/index.html In summary 1) in stellarmate directory using terminal type curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh 2) close terminal and reopen terminal. Type uv —version 3) mkdir mw4 4) cd mw4 5) uv vent -p 3.10 6) Check to make sure you installed venv. Type ls -la 7) uv pip install...
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Thanks for the info. QT5 is available from the compiler but requires a utility. GTK3 will work straight out of the box. The last GTK3 interface bugs are now eliminated by the Pascal coders.
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Jasem responded: Yes GTK is out. Maybe Han should switch to Qt? Not easy but it's much better than GTK
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Good it is working! I have tested the standard ASTAP with the GUI on my RPI. It just worked. However AI told me the following: As of late 2025, Arch Linux has officially removed GTK2 from its main repositories , ending support for the long-deprecated toolkit, which reached its end-of-life years ago. While GTK2 packages are no longer natively supported or updated by Arch, they can still be installed via the Arch User Repository (AUR) I assume the missing GTK2 widget causes problems for the standard...
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Clear skies tonight and I'm happy to report success! I copied the astap.zst executable to the mw4 directory so i could copy it back if needed. Then i duplicated the astap_cli and renamed it astap. I then did a sudo cp astap /opt/astap/ to overwrite the old astap .zst executable. i then checked file properties in Dolphin and noted the modification was done. Loaded up SMPro OS 2.0 and MW4. it solved every point. So now i need to know from Jasem how to ensure i can get updates for SM Pro 2.0 without...
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Let me know the proper command to do this. i was having issues trying to copy and paste a d80 data file using dolphin file manager so i used the d50 .zst file which worked fine. or maybe let me know the commands in bash Konsole to do this. i do have some clear skies forecasted tonight and maybe tomorrow for testing... Thank you Han!
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