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DSS Offline HiPS

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Replied by Giles on topic DSS Offline HiPS

I discovered a way to download this data.
I'm not going to reveal how I downloaded the data.
The reason for this is that the people who own the data, while saying that the data can be obtained and used for non-commercial purposes, have put restrictions on its use (see the statement on my blog post).
However, they didn't actually put restrictions on the distribution of the data, though it remains within their copyright, so I feel it fine to seed these as torrents.
I'm not distributing these in any other format, it is up to the open-source community to perpetuate this and torrent, while often associated with clandestine software piracy, is the way to do this.
If you find no seeds available, then I can re-enable mine.
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Replied by alacant on topic DSS Offline HiPS

Hi everyone

I downloaded from the dropbox link:
www.dropbox.com/s/v91m68pcnfybgy7/hips.tar.gz?dl=0
and ended up with a folder called usr. I just copied it to a folder called HIPS somewhere I could remember.

Guessing that this is one method of installing it (?).

Cheers and clear skies,
Steve
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Replied by Giles on topic DSS Offline HiPS

What you've done works...

The hips.tar.gz file is set up that you would do the following:

cd /
sudo tar zxvf hips.tar.gz

This would end up with the NorderX directories in the /usr/share/kstars/HIPS folder, which is a more standard location for the kstars systemwide (in that they're available read-only for all users on a system, rather than having them in your home folder.
Then you would just point kstars to look at the /usr/share/kstars/HIPS in the dialog that you screenshotted.

You don't have to change what you've done, I'm just explaining why they have the /usr/share/kstars path prefix in the tar file.
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Replied by alacant on topic DSS Offline HiPS

Does anyone know what the bottom button marked 'Sources' is for?
What, if anything, should I choose there?
TIA.
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Replied by Andrew on topic DSS Offline HiPS

Sources contains a list of alternative sky maps from a large assortment of sky surveys. Many are somewhat interesting to look at, but DSS is the most practical use for framing.
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Replied by Bernd Limburg on topic DSS Offline HiPS

Bit late to the party and no seeds for Norder6 and 7 active anymore... so could some of you torrent hosters re-seed 6 and 7, please?

thx a lot,
Bernd
1 year 5 months ago #87224

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Replied by Giles on topic DSS Offline HiPS

Seeding for a while now...
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Replied by Bernd Limburg on topic DSS Offline HiPS

Tracker says 2 peers indeed... but no download activity. Must be a problem with my settings. Although Torrent for Norder1-4 worked flawlessly 30 min ago.

Will restart my PC and see if that helps, but thanks for seeding anyhow.
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Replied by Bernd Limburg on topic DSS Offline HiPS

Still no download... tried another torrent (ubuntu, lots of seeders) and download started normally. Have no idea what I'm doing wrong...
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Replied by Giles on topic DSS Offline HiPS

Just leave your client running, don't watch it, you'll have the data by tomorrow morning.
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Replied by Andrew on topic DSS Offline HiPS

Just now, Norder6 and 7 torrents started downloading fine for me from the single seed currently alive.
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Replied by Bernd Limburg on topic DSS Offline HiPS

It just started… thanks again. Speed approx 1 MB/s, will take some hours.
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