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Astap plate solve failed When I attempt an all sky model or a Dec Arc model routine, APPM initiates the process slews to the first point, images, but then fails to plate solve (plate solve fail in ASTAP). 4. exe in my install directory. 4 degrees (C8 reduced to f/3 with a Meade f/3. next time out, I will try ASTAP again, but with binning 2X2. At f/4 to f/7 in a poor star field, I use 15 to 30 seconds at ISO 1600. A). NEF files don't contain the field of view. Below is the list of the 12 images showing 7 of the astap nina plate solver errors - posted in Beginning Deep Sky Imaging: hello i am having some problems with Nina and trying to get the plate solving working, I am using a WO z81 ( aperture 81mm, FL 559mm, FR f/6. com/channel/UCRxD Problems Platesolving in N. ASTAP Plate Solving Issues - posted in Beginning Deep Sky Imaging: I started using N. Using the new version of SharpCap and no binning, ASTAP would report about 50 stars and solve about half of the time. 19 posts • Page 1 of 1. I am trying out NINA. I would love to hear if anyone has the same/similar equipment and what Go to the imaging tab and select plate solve. Are there any configurations items I may be missing? I'm using ASTAP + NINA to plate solve. I get very reliable but slowish platesolving with All Sky Plate solver in sharpcap, finding hundreds of Title says it all. Of those 5 or 6 times, astrometry. Had a little bit of an issue around the Flaming Star nebula I was able to work out, but as I moved north to the M81, M82, surrounding areas I ASTAP Beginner Problems - No Stars Found - posted in Astronomy Software & Computers: Still failing in my attempt to plate solve with SharpCap/ASTAP. It works everytime when I use astrometry, but that is really slow. Just now, I downloaded Trying to image with NINA, but can't get ASTAP to solve my images. I've read posts about this issue and have tried several solutions that did not work. exe directly - you should see in the The majority of the files seem to solve just fine. Is Page 1 of 2 - ASTAP question - posted in DSLR, Mirrorless & General-Purpose Digital Camera DSO Imaging: Im having the problem that ASTAP fails to plate solve. No matter what I selected, it was unable to plate solve. net fails to solve using the 2mass indexes, I assume the near infrared magnitude J is too different from the image, so other star quads are taken. Since Astrometry. THEN, the ASTAP solver box would pop up and crunch numbers, and a few seconds later it's showing the exactly correct RA/DEC coordinates (with the A user reports a problem with NINA and ASTAP failing to plate solve images with a Svbony 405cc camera. About 12% of them (26 out of the first 220) will not solve. Plate Solve Failure Stacking program, astrometric (plate) solver, fits file viewer Brought to you by: han59. I have downloaded all the folders for plate solving and I mounted on a USB drive that stays Intermittent Solve Success and failure Stacking program, astrometric (plate) solver, fits file viewer Brought to you by: han59. Try changing the the plate solver in the drop down box? I just have ASTAP ser as both the plate solver and the blind solver - once I Page 1 of 2 - ASTAP Plate Solver - posted in Electronically Assisted Astronomy (No Post-Processing): As some of you know from my EAA livestreams, Ive used the All Sky Plate Solver for quite a while. For the past several months I have been using the three point polar Alignment in NINA and it has been working perfectly, until tonight. I see the ASTAP plate solver window in the upper left screen when I begin polar alignment The max I have been able to solve is full frame DSLR on a 2000mm, but when I go to a 1" sensor on the same scope, even with 2000mm put in it just failed, both primary and secondry ASTAP with N. And for some reason if I do this the image solves but the setting doesnt remain at AUTO, the software alters it afterwards to what it thinks it should be, thus meaning next time I try to use just ASTAP to solve - it fails. - posted in Beginning Deep Sky Imaging: Im trying to use ASTAP in N. I do find that the final sync when using SharpCap's goto function can sometimes fail anyway. I am trying to use NINA as an all-in-one suite to plate solve and control my How do I get astap on NINA? - posted in Beginning Deep Sky Imaging: Hi there, I have recently downloaded NINA to help polar aligning my mount, and I need to get a plate solver on NINA, but when I download astap and the h18 data base, I go on NINA to add astap as a plate solver in options, but I can’t find astap on downloads or anywhere to add it to NINA. Where one fails to solve a given image, another might succeed. Plate Solving with a Celestron 8" EDGEHD (I set it to 2032) and the Focal Ratio; f/10 but everytime I try to plate solve it just never solves and fails. ) You need 30 stars last time I checked when using ASTAP for solving. Summary Files Reviews Support Tickets Forum Of the 15 Plate Solving steps I did tonight 5 failed. Not sure what is next. exe executable and adding the star database in the same directory The ASTAP plate solver is an own idevelopment, not Problem in using ASTAP with NINA - ASTAP validation failed - posted in Astronomy Software & Computers: Hi friends, I have tried NINA first time recently and meet a issue that I cant find any similar ones in google. Tried to plate solve the failed image via ASTAP and no luck either. I did a quick experiment trying to determine why ASTAP (native) does not solve as well as ASTAP or the other plate solvers. 3) Again, considering SC 4. So, if In NINA, set ASPS as your blind solver. 46 deg ( the calculated image height). NINA plate solves using ASTAP but flashes up a warning that the image scale is too low. Probably only hit astrometry. The part of this that is most tedious is going in and changing the focal length of The Plate Solve panel of the Plate Solve Setup workspace is where you select your choice of plate solver and blind solver: PLATE Solve: Select the plate solve software that Voyager should use for plate solving when the field's RA and Page 1 of 3 - ASTAP platesolving in SharpCap unreliable? - posted in Astronomy Software & Computers: Im having issues getting reliable plate solving with ASTAP in SharpCap. If I go too sort, it takes ages Page 1 of 2 - NINA plate solving quirk - posted in Beginning Deep Sky Imaging: Ive been using NINA for plate solving and DSO imaging for a while, all good. It tried about 4 times before I stopped it. In ASTAP you can double click on either of the two RA / DEC boxes at top left (labelled as "α" and "ẟ") and it will open the box in PS2 is NOT an all sky solver, ASTAP is. 10 and all was fine (like before). I had only a very crude alignment model, but I "only" ended up off target 3 degree post flip. I am also using SGP 3 If the plate solve doesn't finish in time then it will be marked as a plate solve failure. ASTAP will search for four closest stars and measure the distances between them (the hash code or constellation). - posted in Beginning Deep Sky Imaging: I have been using BYN with ASTAP, Cartes du Ciel and PhD2 successfully for several months with my elderly C8 & FF/FR. youtube. For clarity, in SharpCap, I have no issue plate solving with ASTAP. This confuses ASTAP. 3 and before it was working. Later I would like to use plate solving to help aligning and Should the solve attempt fail, N. Ive been reading good things about ASTAP but I would like to get some insights from others about the key differences between them. When i load a fits in astap it solves in seconds. In NINAs plate solving tab, I set ASTAP location to astap. Summary Files Reviews Support but ASTAP isn't having any of it. didn't help. Practical life with C8, ASIAIR Plate Solve with large focal length - posted in Beginning Deep Sky Imaging: Hi All! I use most APO refractor with focus 432mm, ASI1600MM and ASIAIR which makes a lot of fun. With the focus mask removed plate solving was fine again. Note that in latest ASTAP version 0. However, if I try to plate solve the same image by loading it into I am having a very hard time getting the ASTAP plate solver to work in NINA. Please help. it got solved. My current setup is a Canon T6i with a 75-300 mm lens on a star adventurer 2i pro. At the time, I concluded that the field of view had insufficient stars with the 5 second exposure time that I use for plate solves. My setup entails Page 1 of 2 - Plate solving help - posted in Beginning Deep Sky Imaging: Was testing gear last night. It should be at the same location as the file "SolveNow-2022-10-21-221320. Reading some info about ASTAP, it says: If you use the NINA Three Point Polar Alignment Failed - posted in Experienced Deep Sky Imaging: Hello, I have an EQ6-R Pro running with NINA. Can someone point me in the right direction to get this to work? With the addition of the new link between Siril's plate solver and the local catalogue and the new link between Siril's PCC and the local catalogue, a new command conesearch was created (from Siril 1. 5 seconds outside of NINA. ASTAP, Astrometric STAcking Program, astrometric solver and FITS image viewer. net based programs like All Sky Plate Solver (ASPS) or ANSVR are excellent in solving problematic images. io] On Behalf Of marsh. 251 the solver reliability has been further improved. So ASTAP is working but the connection between APT and ASTAP does not work. In the version 3. Astrometry. double check those, as they will cause it to fail if wrong (options, equipment, telescope/camera). ASTAP astrometric solving method (plate solving) Image: Star database: 1: Find Hi just started using Nina and have download Astap but when it goes to plate solve i get a message saying Warning ASTAP-Warning remaining image dimensions too low! can any one shed some light on this maybe i have download the wrong astap catalogue H18? maybe i should download the H17 smaller star database,can anybody get me going. Before I used PlateSolve2 with APT and it has issues in several situations. 0 (Beta) 5) Target coordinates via Cartes du Ciel v4. It was working fine till I downloaded ASTAP and setup PlateSolving tab. I am using an AT70ED with a . Additionally, I put in all of my cameras (canon 600d) specifications correctly, including pixel size (4. It did solve in ASTAP when manually set the FOV to 0. So, if the solve fails look to the solver parameters and workflow first, not NINA. NINA x ASTAP platesolve fails on longer focal lengths - posted in Experienced Deep Sky Imaging: ASTAP continually fails trying to platesolve with the settings shown in the attached image. I think it's a permissions thing, based on another post, that prevents installing the solver exe in an ADMIN account, which is weird. ini" The . A. A few weeks ago I was using MW4 2. The ASTAP solver aims at a robust star pattern recognition using the catalog star coordinates in Equinox J2000. Also Suddenly plate solving is super unreliable. But now I wonder if there is something else going on, that it's failed with 3 different solvers. In NINA I am simulating a camera that matches the properties of the image and when I attempt to plate solve in NINA I get that little window (see attached) and eventually solve fails. 63, resolution 4144x2822) and a WO p-flat6a111 (. What I do is I load images to ASTAP, plate solve them, measure magnitudes, find comets and asteroids and maybe annotate DSOs. The other solvers ASTAP, PlateSolve2, Ansvr and Astromety. Im using Canon DSLRs. Use Blind Solver For Failures# When a plate solve fails a fallback to the blind solver is attempted Here's beginners astrophotography tutorial on plate solving in Nina (or N. Using the old version of SharpCap and no binning, ASTAP would report about 400 stars and would always fail plate solving. Which is really what I wanted anyway given an ASTAP solve failure. When using the new G05 database both setups solve instantly with no issues whatsoever! I have the same scope and ASTAP fails about 50% of the time This is an old topic, but if you don't get a warning (wrong focal length) the first thing you could do it to double the exposure time. will prompt if the Blind Solver should be used to solve the image. There is also a setting in I have a Celestron EdgeHD 8 with a focal reducer. ini is a text file containing the solve instruction for ASTAP. Om my system is achieves a full sky scan in about 380 seconds. and then load that RAW image file into So after a bit more playing with the settings in the stack menu, I found that setting both the "Star Database Used" and "Field of View" fields to "auto" (with the latter then recommending 1. Until today, I had a complete set of H17 and H18 files in the Astap folder, which is under Program Files on my Windows machine. when opening the same file in sgpro and fire up solve a little yellow astap window appears but the process never ends. There it worked without problems and ASTAP found a solution within seconds. When I browse to that folder in Windows 10 it still shows no compatible file found, but if I manually type in Astap. I'm not sure what the "bearing means", but -90 degrees sounds problematic. Hi, Maybe this is general discussion - I am not seeing where support can be provided. Stacking program, astrometric (plate) solver, fits file viewer. 1) The log from SharpCap after a failed attempt to plate solve 2) A copy of the image file (saved as FITS) that failed to solve. It also failed in NINA on a blind solve. 1 routine - and allowed the Plate Solve to Fail. I also switched my equipment profile/sequence to select ASTAP directly, and those NINA and ASTAP warning for FOV - posted in Astronomy Software & Computers: When NINA starts the plate solving process through ASTAP, a popup from NINA indicates the fallowing warning : - Warning inexact scale ! Set FOV=1. A during 3 point polar alignment. I've bolded what I think is the "problematic" entry. 1. 5 x 0. net 5 or 6 times in that period. Tried working things out in SharpCap but coming to the realization that ASTAP is the problem. I did not to fiddle with the settings and tried ASPS. 7arc mins (based on 2822 pixels), so you can check that ASTAP has got this information correct by running ASTAP. 8x reducer/flattener (571 fl. ASTAP - Plate solve failed. NET solved all 12 without issue. I increased the exposure time from 8 to 12 seconds and this seemed to help. When that happens, I PointCraft and plate-solving. For me ASTAP is the only plate solver that always works. I also download and installed H17 and H18 on my ASTAP is selected as the solver. 2020/02/05 18:28:40 (UT 2020/02/05 18:28:40) Op PointCraft (Auto): Imaging All you have to do is setup ASTAP once and never look back. In a richer field, a shorter exposure might suffice. I'm using a focal NINA/ASTAP Platesolve Issues - posted in Beginning Deep Sky Imaging: All -- I just read a great thread about platesolving with NINA at high focal lengths. Depending on your FOV, ASTAP will search half of the sky in a minute or so. 5 years. 09. When I go to Tools and enter my focal length to 400 mm, it keeps Images taken with NINA were quickly solved by ASTAP. N. Got a new computer and now I simply cannot platesolve at all with ASTAP when using the framing wizard. Good your making progress. Cannot get a solve in either plate solving 'live', or a FITs file. 7 with ASTAP v2022. a. 25 Edge (2300mm) or Stellarvue All Pointcraft images fail to solve, and last night I spent over an hour of my precious imaging time trying to find the root cause. 2. I did that for about 1. When I upload the image to Astronomy. I use a DSLR 4000D. This topic comes up periodically but having read previous threads I'm none the wiser how to solve the issue. When I tried to use it tonight, my mount went to a completely random position, not the normal I have been using SGP with ASTAP and ansvr local for blind solving for over a year. Images taken with SharpCap failed; however, during the imaging sessions with SharpCap, ASTAP was able to plate solve. If I used the "-z 2" option, ASTAP would report about 90 stars and would solve about 3/4 of the time. Plate Solving Difficulties in NINA - posted in Beginning Deep Sky Imaging: Hello, Im very new to Astrophotography and I was hoping someone with more knowledge and experience could help me out. The log should contain useful information like the exact command sent to ASTAP including any information on estimated position, field of view, etc. Here is the RA plot ASTAP is a free stacking and astrometric solver (plate solver) program for deep sky images. Net for plate solving for a few weeks now, everything works great with my 714 focal length scope, with and without a . I tried ASTAP and it failed on a blind solve at 180 deg, or when given the RA/DEC from Astronomy. I went through increasing gain, picture duration, changing sky position, etc. I then manually tried both programs at that position without success. It also sometimes works when blind plate solving as well. - posted in Experienced Deep Sky Imaging: Its been a week since I first tried to plate solve. Trying to take am image errors out. Remember that platesolving is done entirely in the solver, NINA has virtually nothing to do with it. Nina/Astap vs Plate Solve 3 - posted in Beginning Deep Sky Imaging: All — i am still a relative novice with NINA. for plate solving but it always fails with Not Enough Stars I see plenty of stars in the exposure. Within one night within 1 hour, The settings you've got there seem to be directing N. What is the current recommended solution? Last nights solved images at ASTAP showed 1029 mm Focal Length so I added that in Sharpcap Plate Solving Settings. 5 x 3. net as your plate solving software. Summary Files Reviews Support Tickets Forum Code Menu Create Topic When ASTAP is try to solve using Nina or SGP you get a small yellow popup notifier. Is there something in the header that is causing APT to not even give the image to ASTAP? Thanks Jay Plate Solving Fails in N. I. I use the advanced sequencer and want to run the Center After Drift procedure in NINA. It doesn't matter is the solve failed. I could not plate solve Marcarians Chain for example. Before, plate solving could take a minute or more (especially when using a rotater); now its finishes before I noticed that it even started. I’m fairly sure that all the APPM settings are ok. If I try to plate solve the same images through NINA, selecting the image as a file in the FRAMING ASSISTANT the image ASTAP -- D50 "How To" - posted in Beginning Deep Sky Imaging: All -- Im trying to update the star registries for ASTAP in the hopes that doing so will eliminate recent plate solving issues that I have had with NINA. When run ASTAP stand-alone and load a FIT, it solves. page 1 of 2 - nina plate solving keep failing - posted in beginning deep sky imaging: i have a celestron edge hd 11 inch , cgx mount, zwo 2600 mc pro main camera, zwo 294 guide camera, celestron off axis guider: i am having such a hard time having nina plate solve without failing keep saying not seeing enough stars (using astap for both main and blind solving. I have been using PS 2 with plate solving images binned 3X3 for several years. trouble with Ekos and KStars plate solving - posted in Beginning Deep Sky Imaging: I may be doing something wrong but here is the scenario, I have a RPi 4 with Astroberry installed, I am able to hook up my equipment ZWO guide camera, DSLR, and im using an Ioptron SGP. Too low binning not, but maybe a little slower. Buy me a coffee☕ https://www. I am trying to image the Iris Nebula and NINA plate solves until the I am having the same problem with ASTAP in NINA. What I see is a lot of hot pixels in the image. I have installed ASTAP as well as the D80 star database, and I've selected astap for my plate solver and blind solver. However, if I hadn't seen the log message I would of assumed that plate solving was successful when it had actually failed. This is with G18 and H17 databases. Both ASTAP and PlateSolve2 failed to solve it from NINA. 29 and can work with SGP as a PlateSolve2. Firstly, AstroTorilla install fails to provide the solver exe. Note: Every attempt is made to stop solving at the limit but in some cases the time limit can't be honored. exe Sharpcap will now show ASTAP as entered manually, and presumably it will now work. 3 microns) and camera height and width. Some of the documentation says it works best with raw images, but the file open dialog does not display the CR2 file types from the Canons. 19a and at the next imaging session in the field last night, all attempts to plate solve failed with ASTAP Not Plate Solving - NINA Rel 1. I have received my ASI2600 and thought Id give N. io [mailto:main@ap-gto. Ekos and ASTAP agree on the FOV (108m x 108m) , sensor dimensions (3008x3008), and search radius (30) Ekos is executing ASTAP. Suddenly plate solving is super unreliable. Is it due to the image has no stars (which is expected this plate SharpCap also sends a FOV parameter to ASTAP when it initiates a plate-solve. I use ASTAP as my solver, for which up to this point has been flawless, solving in a few seconds, including unattended AMFs. IF I use ONLY ASTAP to plate solve, (ie, open the file in just ASTAP), it solves the image in less than . There is no need for a blind solver unless you find it unreliable and want a backup solver. One problem for any "simple" solution is that WBPP can be set up to process multiple batches of images. 0. 007, no downsampling, fov 3° and started from the photometry tab context menu with "refresh astrometrical 2) The log from SharpCap captured after the initial plate solve success near the pole and then the later failure elsewhere. 0) to display catalog objects in a plate solved image. cs|ReadResult|62|ASTAP - Plate solve failed. If anyone has a similar setup, would love to hear your I have downloaded and installed ASTAP but it cannot solve a picture file that was solved by the online version of astrometry. io> On Behalf Of Big Daddy Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2021 1:39 PM To: BeginningImaging@raleighastro. Camera is a QHY183C, scope is a GSO RC6, mount is a HEQ5. Maybe the latest nightly build of Nina could help to retrieve a solve failed image. Members; Plate Solving Failures with ASIAir - posted in Beginning Deep Sky Imaging: I have never been able to successfully plate solve using my ASIAir, with my ASI 294MC Pro as my main (and ASI 120MM set up as my guide), and after hours, if not days/weeks of frustration, I am reaching out to CN hoping that I can finally resolve this issue once and for all. RobW Posts: 46 Joined: Thu Jul 04, 2019 10:23 am. I have shared the xisf file at the following link: In ASTAP solver more or less the same process is followed. 53d or scale = 1. Astap is in the default folder Astro Tortilla - It would succeed maybe 1 out of 3 tries. net, as the designated failover quickly kicked in and solved successfully. Thus, the Blind Solver acts as a back up method. ASTAP (stand alone) reads and solves this file as well. Or at least certainly if it did fail in this way I would have expected more information about the failure in the log! Cheers, Robin Blind Plate Solving in APT with ASTAP? - posted in Beginning Deep Sky Imaging: When I try to plate solve in APT using ASTAP it sometimes works and sometimes doesnt work based on the scope position. To find the cause of your problem, the way forward is to find a . Discussions about PointCraft feature, PlateSolve2/3, ASTAP, ASPS and everything related to plate-solving (and use ASTAP as both Blind and Near) it fails to solve, I use 240 seconds for timeout. StevieDvd. This would eliminate the need for getting correct focal lengths with The plate solving option panel shows more info, including a "plate solver detection status" panel which shows ASTAP found in the installed folder. i use astap through nina and occasionally for some reason solve fails. First of all the images I have tested this image and it solves easily in ASTAP. ASTAP settings - posted in Astronomy Software & Computers: Im trying to get ASTAP (Astrometric Stacking Program) to plate solve. net, it is successful, but that plate solver takes too long in NINA, so I want to use ASTAP. net. However, when I graph the plate solve results for the frames that did work, I get something strange. to use astrometry. Page 1 of 2 - Astap solving problems - posted in Astronomy Software & Computers: Hi again, so Im trying to find an offline plate solving solution and stumbled across Astap. 10. 29 and find it doesnt always work well. It always fails, and then it sits for 90 seconds, I suppose to let the rig sit still. I've changed binning in ASTAP does not solve my images HELP - posted in Astronomy Software & Computers: I installed ASTAP with the star library on a Win 10 Notebook. You have to select in tab alignment "Field of View(height)" 25 degrees for your 35 mm camera. When the plate solve picture is displayed, make sure the tracking and focus are NINA ASTAP PLATE SOLVING WITH CANON EQ6 - posted in Beginning Deep Sky Imaging: Hi fellow Deep Sky Astrophotographers Sorry to visit this subject again, but I just wasted a entire precious clear sky night trying to get plate solving to work in NINA with ASTAP, just getting Failed message constantly. If I fire up the ASTAP UI, it also fails - but if I simply click 'Solve' again, it succeeds. The astrophotography Page 1 of 2 - NINA Platesolving failures after new imaging camera? - posted in Beginning Deep Sky Imaging: This one has me really puzzled. Anyway, a 1-2 degree offset should not cause a Solver Search Radius: 10 I'm using ASTAP for both Plate and Blind. I have the latest development version and the H18 database. Looks like my indilib issues will take a ASTAP failed. 5 seconds. A I am wondering is there ASTAP is recommended. The picture is a 10 second shot with auto-dark insertion. A) for Astrophotography. The window closes too quickly for me to get a screenshot, but ASTAP failed to solve the image. All my equipment data is entered accurately in the Tools section. I checked that the settings were the same, and it was the same image. net and Sharpcap solves just fine . Sometimes it works great, but other times NINa will slew to an object but fail to center it because ASTAp will bring up a cream-colored box in the corner of the screen, run through a bunch of I'm still having no luck getting ASTAP to run. exe for astap location. Summary Files Reviews hello. All Sky Plate Solver - This was the 3rd Stacking program, astrometric (plate) solver, fits file viewer Brought to you by: han59. 0. My goto accuracy on my Celestron AVX is hit or miss at best (no matter how many stars I align on or how good my polar alignment is), so I am moving to plate solving to work on the issue, especially for galaxy season. And it failed to resolve even a single image. Summary Files Reviews Support Tickets Forum Same ASTAP setup that I have used successfully so far: star alignment, hash code tol. However, if image scale is incorrect then plate solves will This sounds like a great addition to SharpCap. And, it would take forever to fail - like minutes. After it failed to solve with ASTAP i tried Pointcraft like i always did with PS2 and had succes. I use the C11 at f/6. A with ASTAP During 3 Point Polar Alignment - posted in Beginning Deep Sky Imaging: Hello, My plate solving keeps failing in N. Some times I need to switch to the guide camera when an ASTAP plate solve fails at the longer focal lengths. This will indicate the vertical scale in degrees. It'll run once, throw some huge Ra/Dec error, adjust, then fail to solve the second Thank-you, Han. ASTAP will usually solve very quickly provided image scale is set accurately. thx So if you told NINA to GoTo M45 and solve an image, even if M45 isn't in the frame ASTAP will know have an idea. Summary Files Reviews To solve in ASTAP: The . I typically, for plate solving, run everything at 4x4 binning and I can confirm that ASTAP supports CR3 files (select libraw in ASTAP to enable that). 18), I can then get ASTAP to plate solve. Edited by Tapio, 05 April 2022 - 03:54 AM. If it fails in SGP it is either a too high binning ASTAP Not Enough Stars in N. To display stars that contain photometric information (the B-V index) and can be used for If plate solving fails Use a generous plate solve exposure. A too high binning value will result in failure. Set path in sgpro options dialog and pointed to astap in the equipment settings. Secondly have look to the last image failed at: From: BeginningImaging@raleighastro. Astronomy. Moreover, ANSVR as the failover would not solve. 5 degree FOV. For fail-over I use a local cache of Astronomy . 3 reducer). Then installing the "ancient" download and wham! It worked as it had before. I still hope that Ivo will add ASTAP to the pointcraft menu of APT. when I use astap as the plate solving engine I get something like this in the log (select the help menu in SharpCap and choose 'show log') I will have to dig further as I was not expecting it to fail like that. If ASTAP keeps failing, switch to ASPS in NINA's menus for plate solver. but an incorrect focal length can cause the plate solve to fail. I have tried ASTAP as a stand alone where I entered the approximate RA/DEC, and through APT where I Subject: [ap-gto] ASTAP Plate Solve Failing During APPM Hi – for anyone who may have run into this using ASTAP, I’m hoping that there may be some suggestions as to what I’m doing wrong. I pointed my camera at Betelgeuse, and clicked start. The next challenge is getting ASTAP to communicate with NINA and be able to plate-solve there. The library files are contained in that folder as files looking like g17_nnnn The settings you've got there seem to be directing N. Every time I plate solve in N. ASTAP failed as a blind solver also. As with PS2, it asks to select the destination folder plate solve mostly failing Stacking program, astrometric (plate) solver, fits file viewer Brought to you by: han59. 11 Nightly Build 046 Stacking program, astrometric (plate) solver, fits file viewer Brought to you by: han59. The re-slew looks pretty accurate. Here is a link to one of the files that failed to solve https://ufile. If I manually load one of my CR3 lights into the ASTAP viewer it solves correctly. Recently I have tried C8 with 2032mm and problem is that ASIAIR not The add-on programs in question are Plate Solve 2 (PS2) and All Sky Plate Solver (ASPS). I have tried to use the native solver in ASTAP, but it has failed on every image I have of Delta Cephei, taken with a 250 mm lens and a 30 second exposure at ISO 200 and having a roughly 5. I've tried increasing the camera gain to max, and longer exposures (up to 10 sec). When I try to simply load a previously obtained photo into the framing assistant, ASTAP will not solve it, saying "plate solve failed to retrieve coordinates for image" , even though the coordinates are clearly showing in the framing assistant. Just making sure everything works, camera back focus ,closed loop wifi works etc As part of testing I tried using NINA three point polar alignment with ASTAP as the plate solver of choice. So I've set sync/solve frames be taken a 2x2 binned and ASTAP flies. In the settings box are the links to the software, also free, and the catalogues they use to platesolve your image. I purchased a new mount and reloaded the ASTAP and ansvr executables and databases onto my laptop in conjunction with the HEM27’s ASCOM driver and iOptron Commander wrapper - they would not run. ASTAP failing. 531 dated 2021-5-2 4) Telescope control: Celestron CPWI v2. is there an astap log file i can look at to see what the issue may have been? Discussions about PointCraft feature, PlateSolve2/3, ASTAP, ASPS and everything related to plate-solving. Any thoughts would be appreciated. When it works it takes about 30-45 minutes to finish polar alignment due to constant errors. N. But every now and then when I go to plate solve, it will do the first slew to the target, close but off-center as usual, then it will get stuck in a loop as it keeps unsuccessfully trying to center the target, eventually ASTAP is a new free astro program having a native internal plate solver. You may be better off just to use the "do not use" option under Plate Solving and live with the slower time to do the plate solve. 1 In this configuration plate solving via BYE and ASTAP always fails. It always does that. Select the brightest stars, connect them and measure the distances between them. ASTAP solve it with 85 quads(4 star patterns) . 9) and ZWO asi294 MC PRO (pixel 4. So Ive been wondering what most of you out there use: PlateSolve or ASTAP. ASTAP fails plate solving to 1arcmin - posted in Astronomy Software & Computers: Hello there I hope to find help on this issue that is driving me crazy. A - posted in Beginning Deep Sky Imaging: Hi Community, I have sometimes a problem with my plate solving (ASTAP Plate Solver with N. Im using a Nikon D750 at 400 mm. will start ASTAP in the background just for plate solving and stopping right after. I'd also checked that I'd selected the right object in the objects list. NINA was unable to plate solve the first exposure. 87. Including the arc-sec/pixel. 8x field flattener (AT70ED typically has a focal length of 420mm, but it is 336mm with the . I believe my settings are correct in N. I shut down ATP, restarted checked the focal length, and tried to plate solve again and it failed with ASTAP. 1 (170mm) and f/10 (2800mm) and have a 72mm f/6 guide scope with a 462MM camera. Before you start installing ASPS, close APT as it will fail to install if its open. The reason for this is that while most plate solving software is quite good, none are infallible. It will save a failed image to a new directory: https: PlateSolve vs ASTAP - posted in Experienced Deep Sky Imaging: Ive been using PlateSolve 2. ini file containing the solve instruction. I have recently found that Astap plate solving is temperamental. It'll run once, throw some huge Ra/Dec error, adjust, then fail to solve the second image. Snap-solved. For what ever reason the ImageSolver script is not passing over the image coordinates listed in the image parameters pulldown. Do all that, it should be good to go. The blind solver will be used in the framing assistant and normal platesolving should the primary solver fail. using ASTAP it fails. a try so I might be able to switch profiles between cameras and still have a piece of software that could handle all ASTAP fails to plate solve and nothing has gotten it to operate in its fast and excellent way I know it can. The software has also improved considerably and is now even faster in plate solving! In the past I had some issues when switching over from my 550mm setup to my 135mm gear - ASTAP had difficulties in getting the 135mm images solved. Reverting to PS-2 and it was able to solve when ASTAP fails - but the trade-off is worth it. I use ASTAP with Astonometry as the secondary in case 3) ASTAP version 0. 454. The field of view height at f/10 with that camera should be about 21. The 'plate solve and sync' option searches up to 15 degrees away from the start point. I used I am using the latest stable build, and see that ASTAP is a choice for Plate Solving in the equipment profile. In the near infrared the star But my start up procedure is cumbersome slew to target with CDC plate solve with Sitech server II , then slew to target with CDC and repeat until satisfied that the target is centred then start guiding with PHD2 and fin Jump to content. I use ASTAP plate solving and never have an issue with a plate solve for initially getting the target and doing the Plate solve fail every time - posted in Experienced Deep Sky Imaging: I am stumped with plate solve. This program can view, measure, "astrometric (plate) solve" and stack deep sky images. Plate solving is highly dependent on good focus, you might check you images just before the failed plate solve and make When I use solve (for close solving) PlateSolve2 started plate solving and I got a result. fit" So the file "SolveNow-2022-10-21-221320. I do not know what is wrong and hoping we can figure it out. The only plate solver that would work was PS2which would allow me to APT goto++ problems with ASTAP. in January and plate solving has worked brilliantly using ASTAP around the Orion, Canis Major areas near the celestial equator. When it failed, I noticed that NINA would simple shrug its shoulders, give up trying to plate-solve, and continue on imaging. 2024-03-10T23:19:51. In response to #9, yes, I did check and ASTAP is installed in the following directory on my machine (C:\Program Files\astap) and that is the folder I have listed in the Options dialog for External Apps/ASTAP Plate Solver. 7737|ERROR|ASTAPSolver. io/6s6plo8x. Along with the image that should allow us to recreate the problem you are Download astap program for free. I've also set my telescope focal length, and sensor NINA and ASTAP - posted in Beginning Deep Sky Imaging: Hi, hopefully someone is using this combination. With NINA and ASTAP, I seldom get a plate solve on the first try. Try changing the the plate solver in the drop down box? I just have ASTAP ser as both the plate solver and the Center After Drift in NINA plate solve fails - posted in Beginning Deep Sky Imaging: Hi all, I love NINA and, with all the things that can go wrong, I only have one issue. My loose understanding is that: - If plate solving finds you are off, NINA first sends a sync to the mount to say "you are really here" - If the mount/driver accepts it, NINA then slews to the same target again, expecting the mount to move because now the mount thinks it is in a different place than the target. It is command line compatible with PlateSolve2. Polar alignment with ASIAIR fast and nice, GOTO and tracking is super. solve fails Stacking program, astrometric (plate) solver, fits file viewer Brought to you by: han59. NET and it always works. 2 seconds. I also tried the same image solving in ASTAP directly. So I try ASTAP, which works fine, tested stand-alone using the If you don’t know just set it at 1x1, then ASTAP will bin it automatically. I use it quite frequently now with the 6RC, because even after meridian flip, ASTAP fails on me quite I had H18 running, still am not successful. The solution is not corrected for optical distortion, refraction, proper motion of stars and other minor effects all to be very minor cjdawson wrote: ↑ Wed Feb 03, 2021 10:13 pm On second thoughts, it didn't solve the problem. ASTAP platesolve fails 100% of the time - what am I doing wrong? - posted in Beginning Deep Sky Imaging: Hi guys, I am using NINA for astrophotography. Camera parameters are all read just fine, and in the framing assistant it can plate solve onto Note that there is no attempt (apparently) to even read the file let alone spend seconds solving it. 2/pix or FL=632mm In equipment tab, I entered the correct chip size and resolution of my camera as well as the focal . I use ASTAP with my C8 and a small sensor camera, both directly and via CCDCiel and SharpCap, but not NINA, and it works reliably for me. Just follow the instructions in the SC manual on downloading your plate-solving sky databases ( ASTAP is best) and be sure to select the option to have SC re-center your OTA after it determines it’s current pointing direction. io Subject: [ap-gto] ASTAP Plate Solve Failing During APPM Hi – for anyone who may have run into this using ASTAP, I’m hoping that there may be some suggestions as to what I’m doing wrong. Now, this can take up to 30-40 seconds waiting to plate solve so just be patient it's not as fast as ASTAP but it should work. I switch to astronomy. ANSVR works fine, but only if I use it first - here’s a A problem I have with the combo of 250PDS and ASI178 camera is that ASTAP really struggles to solve un-binned images. Posted January 14, 2023. That lets me see what options are being sent to ASTAP and whether there are any problems with the configuration, and also test myself with the image file and see if I can see what might make it work. Blind Solver# This drop down menu selects the blind solver that is used for initial solves and or backup solving. This includes both the 'plate solve only' option as well as the 'plate solve and sync'. net was able to solve the problem issues. My FOV is roughly 0. I have a FITS file that ASTAP solves in 0. So Im currently trying to solve a RAW image I have NINA plate solve fail with 2x barlow? - posted in Beginning Deep Sky Imaging: Ive been using NINA and local Astrometry. The plate solver in ASTAP version 0. This evening I swapped out my 533mc for my new 2600mc that arrived today. io Subject: Re: [BeginImage] PixInsight Plate Solve Fail The data set I used is the LeoTro data you provided for the PixInsight practice session. Is there I repeatedly received the little red window-- plate solve failed. io <BeginningImaging@raleighastro. Outside of that range and it would fail. 0, the plate solve only option should search the whole sky (180 degrees from the start point). Since astrophotographers usually have a fairly good idea of their target Plate solve fails after re-slew - posted in Beginning Deep Sky Imaging: Using NINA with either PlateSolve2 or ASTAP plate solving works, syncs the mount (Orion Sirius under EQMod) but then fails after slewing to my target. I used Sharpcaps GoTo Coordinates Feature to GoTo items - I let it run the 4. Here is the set-up (scope = EDFS155): <image001. exe substitute by simple replacing the PlateSolve2. platesolve2 works like a charm. Unread post Tue May 05, 2020 9:03 pm. family Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2022 7:45 PM To: main@ap-gto. I've specified where astap is under plate solver settings and have selected astap. Only 3 quads are required so it will solve very reliable form any starting point. net and it works every time but it is so slow. NINA:Camera Timeout - Camera did not set image as ready after exposuretime - posted in Beginning Deep Sky Imaging: Am doing bench testing using NINA, camera and mount+scope. 114 just released can do blind plate solving. ASTAP is fast and accurate, never had a issue 2 StevieDvd. Maybe 1 out of every 10 tries will result in a successful measurement. Im using the TOOLS button in SharpCap, which I understand doesnt look at the mount, just does a platesolve. to use ASTAP as the plate solver. If you want simple software which can plate solve and sync, I recommend All Sky Plate Solver. In the log it said ASTAP failed to solve the image BUT APT announced 'image solved'. I have tried the PlateSolve2 replacement approach, and it does not see to work. Furthermore, when I take a snapshot in N. I have installed ASTAP several time and spent lots of time tweaking it but all it does for me is fail solves. It will plate solve as needed, and there's a separate imaging window tab you can activate to plate Stacking program, astrometric (plate) solver, fits file viewer Brought to you by (with the few darks I took). However, I still see the instructions to replace PlateSolve2 by renaming the ASTAP executable. Can't understand why it works so Problems with Platesolving with N. I converted the result to a PNG file and ASTAP solved it in . Platesolve2 does read and solve this image. Plate solves fail as the coordinates are always zeros. 8x field flattener). I'll run the solver again, it'll show the same or very similar So I thought I’d give ASTAP a go last night, but in five attempts in three different areas of sky, ASTAP would not solve. net will usually work but its getting annoying waiting that long for a solve. wide-field OTA (an FMA180, a ASI533MC and 6nm NB dualband filter) needs gain 600 and an exposure of 3-5 seconds to plate-solve properly. exe 2. groups. Re: ASTAP Plate Solve failure Post by DanK » Sun Sep 06, 2020 2:31 pm I changed to Astrotortilla, I have the option of setting up the camera within that program as well as the field of view dimensions based on my focal length and camera pixel size and array. And oddly when I turn off my camera profile and connect to NINA camera simulator it solves immediately. Whether I am using my Celestron 9. But on my normal DLSR or mono DSLR with L-Enhance ASTAP mostly works. Nothing crazy. It seemed to want between 300 and 900 stars. I’m currently running SGP 3. net failed twice. It only shows about 15 stars and the failure script says that Astap picks up many of the edges there are stars, and fails, whereas platesolve 3 just powers through them, even if it picks up some of the edges as stars. . I loaded 12 random images and found ASTAP (native) failed to solve 7 out of the 12 images. Except: Going back to a November 2023 download after having removed it with the uninstall software. What could be blocking this? I I have now had a successful plate solve through the telescope, and it apparently involved using the H18 star catalogue, using a really long plate solve exposure (30 seconds at ISO 3200), and (possibly) entering the field of view in ASTAP itself. Downloaded astap and the D50 database in the same directory. A few days ago I upgraded ASTAP to v2022. png> Spent a bit of time with one of the other developers on Discord Sunday. In principle, every single frame submitted to WBPP may have (and quite possibly does have) a different exact image centre and image scale (if, for example, auto-focusing is included). Why would that work when none of the FITS files did? Hello Jeff, Yes solving fails. NINA plate solving (ASTAP) now continually fails. I tried that image using the SHarpcap test camera and it failed on a blind plate solve. The default is 5 seconds at ISO 1600 and is usually not enough. 9. Other users suggest checking the focal length, updating the I ran into an issue the other night with the ASTAP plate solver not solving. 8x reducing) i have calculated with the online astronomy From: main@ap-gto. vat avqgxg rhmer xotzh fow rtj ddy alnl zibzh jugwj