Hello all,

I have one clear night left forecasted and I can not miss it.
Having a problem with the offline solver, Mac user here (latest 3.1.0 kstars)

Could someone tell me please what's going on?

found a lead ...
www.indilib.org/forum/ekos/525-ekos-on-m...tml?start=1140#14015

Same as www.indilib.org/forum/ekos/2650-solver-f...in-with-ekos-on-osx/

Stephanes-MacBook-Air:bin stephane$ pip3 list
Package Version

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numpy 1.16.2
pip 19.0.3
pyfits 3.5
setuptools 40.8.0
wheel 0.33.1
Stephanes-MacBook-Air:bin stephane$

solved

Stephanes-MacBook-Air:Downloads stephane$ /Applications/kstars.app/Contents/MacOS/astrometry/bin/solve-field -O --no-plots --no-verify --resort --downsample 2 ~/Downloads/tet.fits
Reading input file 1 of 1: "/Users/stephane/Downloads/tet.fits"...
Extracting sources...
Downsampling by 2...
simplexy: found 217 sources.
/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pyfits/__init__.py:22: PyFITSDeprecationWarning: PyFITS is deprecated, please use astropy.io.fits
PyFITSDeprecationWarning) # noqa
Reading sort column "FLUX"
Sorting sort column
mmapping input file
Copying table header.
Writing row 0
Done
/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pyfits/__init__.py:22: PyFITSDeprecationWarning: PyFITS is deprecated, please use astropy.io.fits
PyFITSDeprecationWarning) # noqa
Solving...
Reading file "/Users/stephane/Downloads/tet.axy"...
Field 1 did not solve (index index-4214.fits, field objects 1-10).
Field 1 did not solve (index index-4208.fits, field objects 1-10).
Field 1 did not solve (index index-4214.fits, field objects 11-20).
log-odds ratio 208.441 (3.34806e+90), 30 match, 0 conflict, 89 distractors, 36 index.
RA,Dec = (17.5927,87.7719), pixel scale 3.09922 arcsec/pix.
Hit/miss: Hit/miss: ++++++++++++-+--++++++-++--+++--+-+

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Field 1: solved with index index-4208.fits.
Field 1 solved: writing to file /Users/stephane/Downloads/tet.solved to indicate this.
Field: /Users/stephane/Downloads/tet.fits
Field center: (RA,Dec) = (17.587121, 87.771751) deg.
Field center: (RA H:M:S, Dec D:M:S) = (01:10:20.909, +87:46:18.302).
Field size: 71.8397 x 53.701 arcminutes
Field rotation angle: up is 147.008 degrees E of N
Field parity: neg
Creating new FITS file "/Users/stephane/Downloads/tet.new"...

Stephanes-MacBook-Air:Downloads stephane$



I had to first install pip outside brew
pip.pypa.io/en/stable/installing/#installing-with-get-pip-py
then pip install pyfits
then brew install netpbm

It's way to late now to open up the observatory, I hope that tomorrow forecast will stand....

Good job on solving the issue. What, in the end, was the solution for you? It may help others if they encounter similar problems...


Clear skies, Wouter

pyfits and netpbm were missing

Seems like I'm having the same issue with Astrometry. I have home-brew installed and with it, I installed netpbm but I'm so confused about pip! I downloaded the get-pip.py file and tried to run curl bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py in MacTerminal (I assume this is where I run it?) then I do python get-pip.py and it acts like it's going to install but then tells me this...

Could not install packages due to an EnvironmentError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/pip'
Consider using the `--user` option or check the permissions.

I'm not very savvy on code and I'm always confused as to where to run commands since all these package installers never give detailed instructions. Also, how did you find out that you were missing pyfits and netpbm?? How can I see what I'm missing?

You would need to run:
sudo python get-pip.py
and use sudo for the rest of the install

I have removed the [SOLVED] as it is not solved in Ekos.
All I was able to solved is the command line resolver and not Ekos.

I am aware that Rob has a new version of OSX Ekos, but I can not compile it on this laptop nor have the time.
Will have to use the online astrometry this evening.

I have received the following message from Rob:
go into the KStars app bundle, into the folder MacOS/python/bin/ Please make sure that python is called python2.7 not python. if it has the other name, rename the file.

I have done as instructed and the internal solver now works fine.