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Hi all, yesterday evening I used the new notebook which I installed Ubuntu 18.04 onto. To my surprise, plate solving would not work because Ekos invokes the solver with the now deprecated - - no-fits2fits option which unfortunately causes the solver to exit immediately.
Since I couldn't find a way out, I made a little bash script on the spot that strips the option away and managed to save the night.
What is the correct way to handle this?
5 years 3 months ago #32452

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Go to the Align tab in Ekos, click the Options button in the bottom right corner of the tab, select the Solver Options tab and disable the —no-fits2fits option.


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Are you absolutely positive the option is still there in the latest stable ppa? I'm not in front of it right now but I looked long and hard for the option yesterday night and couldn't find it..
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Maybe it is in the first tab of the options pop up but, yes, I am sure it is there. I don’t have the stable ppa version anymore but I remember disabling it when I still did.
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I reverted one of my Linux SBCs to KStars 2.8 and indeed the option is exactly where I wrote before. See the attached screen shot.


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It's disabled automatically if it detects v.73
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Jasem, does that mean the option isn't there anymore? If so, the auto detect was definitely not working as it kept using the option.
Actually, I do remember some sort of warning about that option the first time I chose offline solve.. But I might be imagining things, it was dark and very cold!
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Well, I'm kinda embarassed as to how I managed to miss the entire "Basic options" row, but it's there allright...
But Jasem, the auto detect isn't working: I can confirm I have astrometry.net v0.73 but still no fits2fits is selected by default.
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Okay, we can close this one: I don't know what happened that night, but I have both the option and the autodetect is working fine.
Something definitely happened but I have no clue what.
Sorry for the noise.
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