Kieran
Kieran created a new topic ' Astrometry files - direct download vs apt' in the forum. 3 years ago

Hi folks,

Annoyingly I managed to vaporise my Astroberry instance through a power failure while installing a kernel update so building from scratch, so it's been a long time since I've done the basics.

Last time I set it up, I downloaded the astrometry index files direct from the Internet and then dropped them into the target folder. This time I noted a line in the Astroberry guide that said you can install them via apt:

sudo apt install astrometry-data-2mass astrometry-data-tycho2
. I assume I still need them even with the new StellarSolver?

I ran this but Ekos isn't picking them up, I think because the downloaded files don't have the naming convention that it's expecting (the names are like index-2mass-00-00.fits). Is there any way to use these files? If not I have a copy of the correctly named files backed up somewhere, just seems like a waste of a download!

Cheers!

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