Andre Germain

I brought it down to 5 and 3 on either images and it solves in a flash. Merci Han. Funny thing, it kept reslewing 25 arc min off and it was because ACP, Maxim DL and Guide9 all operate on J2000 but send JNow to the scope. I had to add the same correction JNow to J2000 when the scope's coordinates were sent to the script calling Astap as Astap of course solves in J2000 by default. Such a silly omission on my part. It slews back with dead center target now, thanks astap!

I brought it down to 5 and 3 on either images and it solves in a flash. Merci Han. Funny thing, it kept reslewing 25 arc min off and it was because Astap, ACP, Maxim DL Guide9 all operate on J2000 but send JNow to the scope (not Astap if course), so I had to add the same correction JNow to J2000 when the scope's coordinates were sent to the script calling Astap. Such a silly omission on my part. It slews back with dead center target now, thanks astap!

I have it at 10 deg radius, will try 3ish next time... I suppose deleting from disk some of the smaller fields from the database will help? I haven't looked at their specs in a while so forget. Using D05 for both the 5 deg finder and 0.27 deg main focus on the scope.

I have it far smaller than that... I suppose deleting from disk some of the smaller fields from the database will help? I haven't looked at their specs in a while so forget. Using D05 for both the 5 deg finder and 0.27 deg main focus on the scope.

Hi Han there are times when it doesn't solve and doesn't come back for minutes, maybe more, I stop it. I thought the -timeout would work, but it does not seem to be in the command list. Is there a timeout? if not, there should be. I don't have an image that caused this at the moment but regardless when solves take too long, it's likely they will fail and it would be useful for the user to have a timeout when required. Regards

Hi Han there are times when it doesn't solve and doesn't come back for minutes, maybe more, I stop it. I thought the -timeout would work, but it does not seem to be in the command list. Is there a timeout? if not, there should be. I don't an image that caused this at the moment, but it looked no more different than the usual. Regards

I had some fun adding a very simple UI to the python script to monitor the 5 deg finder and scope's main focus guide camera 0.27 deg fields. An earlier iteration here. An earlier iteration here. Thanks for Astap, blindingly fast and effective!

I had some fun adding a very simple UI to the python script to monitor the 5 deg guider and scope's main focus guide camera 0.27 deg fields. And earlier iteration here. An earlier iteration here. Thanks for Astap, blindingly fast and effective!