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Muh, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, haaaaaaaa.... There be Plate Solven here!

Sonny Edmonds
 

Lord, what a PITA it's been!
But tonight... finally... successes.
I've been gathering images and saving them in fits files, as well as tif file formats.
I was beating to death Astro Tortilla today, but it wants fresh meat, new pictures.
So I decided to ASPS All Sky Plate Solver with some of my pile of files.
Suddenly, I got a solve. Then figured out the way to get it to move the mount. Yeess!
Then my computer seemed to lock up. Nothing seemed to work. Finally I looked over at the 811 and saw it was still red buttoned. Apparently it hadn't finished it slew and was the hang up. Doh!
Stopped that and control came back. So I spent some time and hooked up the baby dell, my mount computer, and played for a while.
So I think at least ASPS is going to work now. It takes some time, sometimes. But generally solves in 20-40 seconds. I look forward to my next night out with some fresh images to solve.
Brian's been coaching me, too. pointing out setting changes, like a 2.76 pixel setting.
I knew if I kept flogging this Plate Solving it would work.
This stuff is like learning a foreign languish.
But the Gemini 2 makes it happen when the background perimeters are set. Looks like maybe next Monday I can do some live play.
You guys Rock! So glad I got a Losmandy Mount!

Thank You and Good Night!

--
SonnyE


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good progress Sonny, keep us in the loop

FYI after the first solve, your solves should be more in the 3-5 second range or faster.

also FYI as you may know there are two models, one for each side of pier, so when you go to opposite side of pier, the initial solve may also take a while, but once that's successful, it will be speedy as well

On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 11:40 PM Sonny Edmonds <sonnyedmonds@...> wrote:
Lord, what a PITA it's been!
But tonight... finally... successes.
I've been gathering images and saving them in fits files, as well as tif file formats.
I was beating to death Astro Tortilla today, but it wants fresh meat, new pictures.
So I decided to ASPS All Sky Plate Solver with some of my pile of files.
Suddenly, I got a solve. Then figured out the way to get it to move the mount. Yeess!
Then my computer seemed to lock up. Nothing seemed to work. Finally I looked over at the 811 and saw it was still red buttoned. Apparently it hadn't finished it slew and was the hang up. Doh!
Stopped that and control came back. So I spent some time and hooked up the baby dell, my mount computer, and played for a while.
So I think at least ASPS is going to work now. It takes some time, sometimes. But generally solves in 20-40 seconds. I look forward to my next night out with some fresh images to solve.
Brian's been coaching me, too. pointing out setting changes, like a 2.76 pixel setting.
I knew if I kept flogging this Plate Solving it would work.
This stuff is like learning a foreign languish.
But the Gemini 2 makes it happen when the background perimeters are set. Looks like maybe next Monday I can do some live play.
You guys Rock! So glad I got a Losmandy Mount!

Thank You and Good Night!

--
SonnyE


(I suggest viewed in full screen)



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Brian?



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Sonny Edmonds
 

Maybe that is why I get a solve, then a stall.
If i shut everything down, and restart, I can get >1< solve.
Its' got me scratchin my head.

(ASPS) I've got something not quite right yet. Oh, and clouds. Lots of clouds.
They found out I have a new mount. Drat!

ASPS online sez I have a 480, 481, 482 mm telescope. I thought it was carbon fiber, not Goodyear Rubber.
And my pixel size varies slightly too. 2.76 - 2.77
But I keep pokin at it. Sometimes it slews, sometimes it don't.
--
SonnyE


(I suggest viewed in full screen)

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