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Alignment fails

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Alignment fails was created by EricFROL

Hey guys,
I have a Skywatcher Newton 150/750 with an HEQ5 EQMOD, connected to an astroberry server. I control that by windows with KStars/Ekos (3.5.1)
Ekos always worked for me, but today I tested the Bahintov Mask. I setuped the focus correctly, almost perfect I guess.

When I try to align with something, it returns me an error:
2021-02-08T23:21:37 El sistema de identificación ha fallado.
2021-02-08T23:21:37 Solver was aborted, timed out, or failed, so no solution was found
2021-02-08T23:20:53 Starting Internal StellarSolver Astrometry.net based Engine with the 4-SmallScaleSolving profile. . .
2021-02-08T23:20:53 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2021-02-08T23:20:53 Image width: 4290 pixels, Downsampled Image width: 1430 pixels; arcsec per pixel range: 2.28587 to 5.15077
2021-02-08T23:20:53 Scale range: 54.48 to 122.76 arcmin wide
2021-02-08T23:20:52 Configuring StellarSolver
2021-02-08T23:20:52 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2021-02-08T23:20:52 Stars Found after Filtering: 48
2021-02-08T23:20:52 Keeping just the 50 brightest stars
2021-02-08T23:20:52 Removing the stars with a/b ratios greater than 1.5
2021-02-08T23:20:52 Stars Found before Filtering: 48
2021-02-08T23:20:52 Starting Internal StellarSolver Sextractor with the 4-SmallScaleSolving profile . . .
2021-02-08T23:20:52 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2021-02-08T23:20:52 There should be enough RAM to load the indexes in parallel.
2021-02-08T23:20:52 Evaluating Installed RAM for inParallel Option. Total Size of Index files: 5.22389 GB, Installed RAM: 15.7905 GB, Free RAM: 8.64308 GB
2021-02-08T23:20:52 Automatically downsampling the image by 3
2021-02-08T23:20:52 Imagen recibida.
2021-02-08T23:20:32 Capturando imagen...


I tried to disable Scale option, won't work too.

What should I do now??




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Replied by Hy Murveit on topic Alignment fails

Here are a few guesses.

- From looking at the screenshot, it seems that there aren't a lot of stars. I assume it wasn't cloudy. Can you up your ISO?
- I wouldn't limit it to 50 stars, as you have in your settings. I'd use 1000 initial stars, and 500 keep stars
- If those don't work, I'd uncheck use-scale and use-position, and see if it works. Then re-check them to see which is the problem.
If use-scale is the issue, perhaps your focal length is off? If use-position, not sure, but worth trying.
- You can always try local ASTAP (and you have to install ASTAP) as a backup solver.

Hy
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Replied by Jasem Mutlaq on topic Alignment fails

Maybe also change "4-SmallScaleSolving" to "Default".
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Replied by Paul on topic Alignment fails

EricFROL,

I notice you are testing with a Bahtinov mask.

Have you removed the mask before aligning?

Paul
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Replied by EricFROL on topic Alignment fails

- My camera maximum ISO is 1600.

- Ok, I will test that.

- Gonna test that too.

- I always wanted to use astap solver, but I’m in windows. I installed G17 database and astap. In stellarmate settings I configured Astap local path correctly. When I run, it returns me an error, saying failed. Any ideas?
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Replied by EricFROL on topic Alignment fails

Tried that too...
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Replied by EricFROL on topic Alignment fails

Ye I removed the mask after focus.
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Replied by EricFROL on topic Alignment fails

Ok, I'll try all of that.

- I always wanted to use Astap solver with StellarSolver. I configured Astap path correctly (C:\Program Files\astap\astap). When i run the solver with astap selected. It returns me an error: Solver Failed. What should I do to use Astap?

Im using Windows.
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Replied by EricFROL on topic Alignment fails

@hy

Ok, I'll try all of that.

- I always wanted to use Astap solver with StellarSolver. I configured Astap path correctly (C:\Program Files\astap\astap). When i run the solver with astap selected. It returns me an error: Solver Failed. What should I do to use Astap?

Im using Windows.
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Replied by Jasem Mutlaq on topic Alignment fails

I can confirm ASTAP fails on Windows with StellarSolver... there are no errors returned by ASTAP "command line" version.. need to check with Robert on this. It used to work fine from Ekos directly.
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