Hi Ron

If it is an insufficient timeout issue as I have in the thread mentioned, then Jasem has increased it in the next build...

I am not sure if that means he will be making a new Windows version or it's updated in the main source branch...

If you can upload the JPEG here, I can try it with my modified source on Ubuntu if you like to see if it helps....

Regards,
Phil

I don't think it is a time limit, it is timing out way before any limit.

thanks,
Ron

The issue I found, Ron, is that Ekos' connector program tried 15 time, with a 2 second delay.... so it was reaching that "Failed to retrieve job ID" because it had decided that was enough... in the background, my local solver had actually completed successfully.

I cloned the GIT kstars source & increased the delay to 10s, which meant it had 15 attempts at ten seconds now - that allowed my local version of astrometry.net (ansvr) to complete

It wasn't taking any notice of any other timeout values.... for e.g, my ansvr has a 480s timeout!

It might be some other issue you are having - I was merely suggesting I could try it if you like... (or if you have an Ubuntu setup, you can try it)

Phil

EDIT:
doh! I see you have already uploaded the JPEG - I'll take a quick look...

Edit 2:
If you want to upload the full size JPEG, along with what the pixel size x/y is and No. pixels for x & yaxis, I can try with that (import into Maxim & save as a FITS + header)

I just solved the image with ANSVR on Windows in less than 30 seconds (blind). Please download and install the new KStars release and report if you still have issues.

My M33 jpg image solved fine online in 79 seconds (I forgot to set the online URL to the local host the first time). After setting my solve configuration as you suggest I restarted Kstars-Ekos and tried again with the same image. I timed out again at 180 seconds this time with the "offline" solver. I increased the time in the solver options to 300 seconds and tried again. This time it solved in 60 seconds?!? The Ansvr log said 59 seconds.

So it is working, just a little confusing as too how.

Thanks for your help.
Ron

Latest version of KStars is working much better for plate solving via the Load and Slew function, which I was having a heck of a time using with consistency prior to this build. Nice work!

Ron,
I have had strange timing results too.... but often, the solve would not complete quickly & so it hit the issue I have already described... I reported the issue to Jasem, who fixed it yesterday....

This is why I suggested that you were hitting the same issue.... I have no idea as to occasionally why the solve happened quickly, but 9 times out of 10 it failed.... not any more - I tested it 10 out of 10 times today....

Phil

I just pushed changes to mark "Offline solver" as disabled under Windows to avoid any future confusion. I used the ANSVR as online solver to blind-solve the image again and it was solved in 46 seconds.

What was confusing to me was to have an offline option but having to use the online option with the URL set to local host. The offline option should have had that built in, I would have thought. But I am no programming expert. So are you actually disabling the offline capability under Windows or just removing the offline solver option? Those of us who have the offline solver working will still have the ability to use it I assume.

thanks for your help and support.
Ron

I think "Offline" was intended for "bits local to a Linux system with Astrometry installed" whereas Online is intended for the Astrometry.net site or ANSVR on Windows. Remote is on the INDI Server and limited to only solving captured photos from the CCD.

Exactly as Bill pointed out. I will update the documentation in the next few days to cover all of this. So offline means a local astrometry.net that you can directly launch, which currently only happens on Linux/Mac. With "Online", you can use the actual astrometry.net online service or ANSVR which is an emulator for it but ones that runs offline.

Great!

For anyone curious, I set up a dual boot on my system with Ubuntu to try out PixInsight, KStars/Ekos, and Astrometry.net on Linux natively, and I have to say that the performance is significantly better for all of them.

Looks like I am going to keep the dual boot and use Linux for Astrophotography work, and Windows for playing games. I can blind solve on my system in less than 20 seconds, and normal solves are about 2-4 seconds. Crazy good.