ASTAP does not resolve with 3000 mm focal length

[LEONCIO PEIRO]

I cannot get ASTAP, which always worked perfectly for me, to resolve the images with the new 11" telescope with more than 2800 mm focal length (2989 due to the added accessories) and with the ASI 1600 MM Pro camera with 3.8 micron pixels.
With PixInsight, Platesolve3 and others like Astrometry I have no problems and they resolve them well.
Any idea of how the system should be configured, please?

Thanks
Leo Peiro

SIMPLE = T / C# FITS
BITPIX = 16
NAXIS = 2 / Dimensionality
NAXIS1 = 2328
NAXIS2 = 1760
BZERO = 32768
EXTEND = T / Extensions are permitted
IMAGETYP= 'LIGHT' / Type of exposure
EXPOSURE= 5.0 / [s] Exposure duration
EXPTIME = 5.0 / [s] Exposure duration
DATE-LOC= '2024-07-25T00:09:39.666' / Time of observation (local)
DATE-OBS= '2024-07-24T22:09:39.666' / Time of observation (UTC)
DATE-AVG= '2024-07-24T22:09:42.532' / Averaged midpoint time (UTC)
XBINNING= 2 / X axis binning factor
YBINNING= 2 / Y axis binning factor
GAIN = 200 / Sensor gain
OFFSET = 10 / Sensor gain offset
EGAIN = 0.495999991893768 / [e-/ADU] Electrons per A/D unit
XPIXSZ = 7.6 / [um] Pixel X axis size
YPIXSZ = 7.6 / [um] Pixel Y axis size
INSTRUME= 'ZWO ASI1600MM Pro' / Imaging instrument name
CAMERAID= 'ZWO ASI1600MM Pro' / Imaging instrument identifier
SET-TEMP= 23.0 / [degC] CCD temperature setpoint
CCD-TEMP= 28.5 / [degC] CCD temperature
USBLIMIT= 40 / Camera-specific USB setting
TELESCOP= 'C11"HD F:10' / Name of telescope
FOCALLEN= 2989.0 / [mm] Focal length
FOCRATIO= 10.7 / Focal ratio
RA = 352.430009745332 / [deg] RA of telescope
DEC = 41.292591549059 / [deg] Declination of telescope
CENTALT = 31.4141563575131 / [deg] Altitude of telescope
CENTAZ = 60.1408397780937 / [deg] Azimuth of telescope
AIRMASS = 1.91366211636414 / Airmass at frame center (Gueymard 1993)
PIERSIDE= 'West' / Telescope pointing state
SITEELEV= 719.0 / [m] Observation site elevation
SITELAT = 40.593964 / [deg] Observation site latitude
SITELONG= -3.69796705245972 / [deg] Observation site longitude
FWHEEL = 'ZWO FilterWheel (1)' / Filter Wheel name
FILTER = 'V Jonhson' / Active filter name
OBJECT = 'Snapshot' / Name of the object of interest
OBJCTRA = '23 29 43' / [H M S] RA of imaged object
OBJCTDEC= '+41 17 33' / [D M S] Declination of imaged object
FOCNAME = 'ASCOM Focuser Driver for RBFocuser.' / Focusing equipment name
FOCPOS = 65290 / [step] Focuser position
FOCUSPOS= 65290 / [step] Focuser position
FOCTEMP = 37.75 / [degC] Focuser temperature
FOCUSTEM= 37.75 / [degC] Focuser temperature
CLOUDCVR= 0.0 / [percent] Cloud cover
DEWPOINT= 9.96631536388216 / [degC] Dew point
HUMIDITY= 26.0 / [percent] Relative humidity
PRESSURE= 1013.0 / [hPa] Air pressure
AMBTEMP = 31.42 / [degC] Ambient air temperature
WINDDIR = 0.0 / [deg] Wind direction: 0=N, 180=S, 90=E, 270=W
WINDSPD = 1.836 / [kph] Wind speed
ROWORDER= 'TOP-DOWN' / FITS Image Orientation
EQUINOX = 2000.0 / Equinox of celestial coordinate system
SWCREATE= 'N.I.N.A. 3.1.1.9001 (x64)' / Software that created this file
PLTSOLVD= F / No plate solution found.
END

[han.k]

Hi Leo,

For such a long focal length, you will need the D80 database and expose maybe 20 seconds exposure or longer.

Can you share one of the images which failed, so I can have a look. You find it in this path:

Nina:

The latest Beta (2.0 H1 BETA0008) will move failed solves to a sub folder in %localappdata%\NINA\Failed.
To prevent unnecessary cluttering it will only create one file per appstart, target name and solver type (blind or not blind) and auto clean the folder for everything older than 7 days

You can copy this path %localappdata%\NINA\Failed into Windows file explorer. Also share the small .ini file in the same directory

Han