Hello.
Yes I understand that now. The focal length were set to my settings but when using the ccd simulator the resolution could not be set to higher than 2048x2048 which led to the solver setting wrong FOV and wrong scale variables.
The 0.1 - 180 degrees was used to set to the same default settings that nova.astrometry.net uses when you upload an image there. I wanted to see if ekos could solve an image that I know the online solver (at astrometry.net) had solved manually.
Last night I was able to set up and use the solver with my real equipment. Now the resolution was set correctly and the FOV was also correct. However the online solver didn't work. When turning on verbose logging the online solver hanged at status [status:processing]. I don't know if this is something Ekos has any control over though.
When I tried to upload an image to nova.astrometry.net it failed to solve the image as well. Maybe it wasn't good enough to solve, I don't know. You can see an example here.
nova.astrometry.net/user_images/395531#original
Maybe the focus wasn't good enough, I couldn't get autofocus to work either, but that's for another post
Does Ekos get a correct response when solving fails? It seems that it did fail but ekos was just hanging on processing and not reporting that it had failed.
Another question, what settings in GPhoto do you need to have to make the images compatible with the online solver? When using the compress option and selecting a smaller image scale than raw (to reduce download time, but still using fits as output and not native) astrometry.net was not able to read the fits file. When I tried to open it in PixInsight I also got an error that it was not a valid fits file. Here is one of the files that couldn't be read.
dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/8802413/Ekos/temp8.fits
Later during the evening I got INTERNAL SERVER ERROR reply from the online solver but that has to be on their part right?
I'm going to try to install the offline solver and see if I can get that to work as well.
/Daniel