Hi, I'm having problems using the plate solver. The same issue happens regardless of whether I use the internal or my own (homebrew installed) astrometry.net installation. Here is the error I get:
2017-09-23T20:08:43 Solver failed. Try again.
2017-09-23T20:08:42 Removing lines of (spurious) sources from xylist "/tmp/tmp.xyls.q7W5SO", writing to "/tmp/tmp.removelines.Fc9kAV"
Running: /Applications/kstars.app/Contents/MacOS/astrometry/bin/removelines -e 1 /tmp/tmp.xyls.q7W5SO /tmp/tmp.removelines.Fc9kAV
2017-09-23T20:08:42 Peak 12 subpeak 0 at (254,154): searching for centroid in 3x3 box failed; trying 5x5 box...
3x3 box:
0.674297,0.896267,0.812561,0.780667,0.994061,0.847565,0.824422,0.916616,0.691532
Peak 29 subpeak 0 at (173,291): searching for centroid in 3x3 box failed; trying 5x5 box...
3x3 box:
0.771339,0.906881,0.790095,0.845628,0.9827,0.954472,0.719289,0.831841,0.90242
Failed to find (5x5) centroid of peak 29, subpeak 0 at (173,291)
5x5 box:
0.222683,0.674521,0.348315,0.599507,0.9827,0.758113,0.391394,0.508202,0.685786
Stepsize 0.1, step 0
x,y = (3,3), V=6.17114, Gx=-0.380388, Gy=0.194914
Stepsize 0.01, step 0
x,y = (3,3), V=6.17114, Gx=-0.380388, Gy=0.194914
Stepsize 0.001, step 0
x,y = (3,3), V=6.17114, Gx=-0.380388, Gy=0.194914
max_gaussian: 3,3
Peak 31 subpeak 0 at (397,304): searching for centroid in 3x3 box failed; trying 5x5 box...
3x3 box:
0.66072,0.823554,0.887134,0.898522,0.974168,0.954348,0.898243,0.966083,0.922735
simplexy: found 52 sources.
2017-09-23T20:08:42 Nsigma=0.7, s=0.428715
simplexy: found sigma=0.428715.
simplexy: finding objects...
simplexy: found 52 blobs
simplexy: finding peaks...
2017-09-23T20:08:42 simplexy: measuring image noise (sigma)...
Sampling sigma at 832 points
2017-09-23T20:08:42 simplexy: nx=640, ny=512
simplexy: dpsf=1.000000, plim=8.000000, dlim=1.000000, saddle=5.000000
simplexy: maxper=1000, maxnpeaks=10000, maxsize=2000, halfbox=100
simplexy: median smoothing...
2017-09-23T20:08:42 Downsampling by 2...
2017-09-23T20:08:42 Running image2xy: input=/var/folders/zx/skmp1g7s43xdtwkgzq30gq400000gn/T/fitsU81278, output=/tmp/tmp.xyls.q7W5SO, ext=0
nhdus=1
Got naxis=2, na1=1280, na2=1024
2017-09-23T20:08:42 Extracting sources...
2017-09-23T20:08:42 fits
Running: pnmfile /tmp/tmp.ppm.Z3JQlA
2017-09-23T20:08:41 Base: "/var/folders/zx/skmp1g7s43xdtwkgzq30gq400000gn/T/fitsU81278", basefile "fitsU81278", basedir "/var/folders/zx/skmp1g7s43xdtwkgzq30gq400000gn/T", suffix "(null)"
Checking if file "/var/folders/zx/skmp1g7s43xdtwkgzq30gq400000gn/T/fitsU81278" ext 0 is xylist or image: image
(not xyls because: FITS file does not have any extensions)
Running: /Applications/kstars.app/Contents/MacOS/astrometry/bin/image2pnm --infile /var/folders/zx/skmp1g7s43xdtwkgzq30gq400000gn/T/fitsU81278 --uncompressed-outfile /tmp/tmp.uncompressed.gsyAAH --outfile /tmp/tmp.ppm.Z3JQlA --ppm --mydir /Applications/kstars.app/Contents/MacOS/astrometry/bin/solve-field
2017-09-23T20:08:41 Reading input file 1 of 1: "/var/folders/zx/skmp1g7s43xdtwkgzq30gq400000gn/T/fitsU81278"...
2017-09-23T20:08:41 /Applications/kstars.app/Contents/MacOS/astrometry/bin/solve-field -O --no-plots --no-verify --resort --downsample 2 -L 20.339 -H 25.424 -u aw -3 194.4 -4 22.9311 -5 30 --verbose --verbose --config /Applications/kstars.app/Contents/MacOS/astrometry/bin/astrometry.cfg -W /var/folders/zx/skmp1g7s43xdtwkgzq30gq400000gn/T/solution.wcs /var/folders/zx/skmp1g7s43xdtwkgzq30gq400000gn/T/fitsU81278
2017-09-23T20:08:41 Starting solver...
2017-09-23T20:08:41 Image received.
2017-09-23T20:08:39 Capturing image...The file /tmp/tmp.removelines.Fc9kAV is empty.
The file /tmp/tmp.xyls.q7W5SO is a FITS file with the following header:
SIMPLE = T / file does conform to FITS standard BITPIX = 8 / number of bits per data pixel NAXIS = 0 / number of data axes EXTEND = T / FITS dataset may contain extensions COMMENT FITS (Flexible Image Transport System) format is defined in 'AstronomyCOMMENT and Astrophysics', volume 376, page 359; bibcode: 2001A&A...376..359H SRCFN = '/var/folders/zx/skmp1g7s43xdtwkgzq30gq400000gn/T/fitsU81278' / SourceSRCEXT = 1 / Source image extension (1=primary) COMMENT Parameters used for source extraction HISTORY Created by Astrometry.net's image2xy program. HISTORY GIT URL: https://github.com/dstndstn/astrometry.net HISTORY GIT Rev: 0.72 HISTORY GIT Date: Mon_Jul_10_14:37:28_2017_-0400 HISTORY Visit us on the web at http://astrometry.net/ NEXTEND = 1 / Number of extensions END XTENSION= 'BINTABLE' / binary table extension BITPIX = 8 / 8-bit bytes NAXIS = 2 / 2-dimensional binary table NAXIS1 = 16 / width of table in bytes NAXIS2 = 52 / number of rows in table PCOUNT = 0 / size of special data area GCOUNT = 1 / one data group (required keyword) TFIELDS = 4 / number of fields in each row TTYPE1 = 'X ' / X coordinate TFORM1 = 'E ' / data format of field: 4-byte REAL TUNIT1 = 'pix ' / physical unit of field TTYPE2 = 'Y ' / Y coordinate TFORM2 = 'E ' / data format of field: 4-byte REAL TUNIT2 = 'pix ' / physical unit of field TTYPE3 = 'FLUX ' / Flux of source TFORM3 = 'E ' / data format of field: 4-byte REAL TUNIT3 = 'unknown ' / physical unit of field TTYPE4 = 'BACKGROUND' / Sky background of source TFORM4 = 'E ' / data format of field: 4-byte REAL TUNIT4 = 'unknown ' / physical unit of field EXTNAME = 'SOURCES ' / name of this binary table extension SRCEXT = 1 / Extension number in src image IMAGEW = 1280 / Input image width IMAGEH = 1024 / Input image height ESTSIGMA= 0.4287148 / Estimated source image variance DPSF = 1. / image2xy Assumed gaussian psf width PLIM = 8. / image2xy Significance to keep DLIM = 1. / image2xy Closest two peaks can be SADDLE = 5. / image2xy Saddle difference (in sig) MAXPER = 1000 / image2xy Max num of peaks per object MAXPEAKS= 10000 / image2xy Max num of peaks total MAXSIZE = 2000 / image2xy Max size for extended objects HALFBOX = 100 / image2xy Half-size for sliding sky window COMMENT The X and Y points are specified assuming 1,1 is the center of the leftmCOMMENT ost bottom pixel of the image in accordance with the FITS standard. END astrometry.net options
-O --no-plots --no-verify --resort --downsample 2 -L 20.339 -H 25.424 -u aw -3 194.4 -4 22.9311 -5 30 --verbose --verboseastrometry.cfg
# This is a config file for the Astrometry.net 'astrometry-engine'
# program - it contains information about where indices are stored,
# and "site policy" items.
# Check the indices in parallel?
#
# -if the indices you are using take less than 2 GB of space, and you have at least
# as much physical memory as indices, then you want this enabled.
#
# -if you are using a 64-bit machine and you have enough physical memory to contain
# the indices you are using, then you want this enabled.
#
# -otherwise, leave it commented-out.
#inparallel
# If no scale estimate is given, use these limits on field width.
# minwidth 0.1
# maxwidth 180
# If no depths are given, use these:
#depths 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
# Maximum CPU time to spend on a field, in seconds:
# default is 600 (ten minutes), which is probably way overkill.
cpulimit 300
# In which directories should we search for indices?
add_path /Users/jonny/Library/Application Support/Astrometry
add_path /usr/local/Cellar/astrometry-net/0.72/data/
# Load any indices found in the directories listed above.
autoindex
## Or... explicitly list the indices to load.
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#index index-200-11It seems that the removal of "spurious sources" results in an empty file?
I hope this information helps.. Any help would be most appreciated!
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