Posted by
karenacollins on
Jun 03, 2020; 5:16pm
URL: http://astroimagej.170.s1.nabble.com/Off-line-plate-solving-in-linux-tp1358p1367.html
Hi Richard,
Thanks for this tip. The link below seems to be broken, but I was
able to reach what I think is the correct post here:
http://forum.mainsequencesoftware.com/t/using-local-installation-of-astrometry/3697
I'm going to copy that information here in case the post gets
removed for some reason. I am not a linux user, so I am unable to
document the specific steps needed to make this work on Linux (and
maybe Mac??). Do we have a linux and/or Mac user that is willing to
try to get this to work, and document the steps for the AIJ
community?
Here is the post from Andy Galasso, the ansvr developer:
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I think you have two options for using your existing astrometry.net
instance on your Linux box.
1) install and run the
astrometry.net
server code. I have never tried this so I’m not sure how hard
or easy it would be.
2) run ansvr on the linux box. ansvr is just a perl script that runs
standalone and calls
astrometry.net’s solve-field
command. You’ll need to modify ansvr on line 65 to point to the
location of solve-field if it is somewhere other than
/usr/bin/solve-field
# # full path to astometry.net solve-field executable # my
$SOLVE_FIELD = '/usr/bin/solve-field';
I just tried running ansvr on an Ubuntu 15.10 machine and it ran ok,
but the version of
astrometry.net solve-field that
I had installed there fails with an error reading the FITS image
uploaded by SGP ( IOError: Header missing END card.) If you want to
pursue this but you get the same error on your Linux machine, I
would be willing to work with you to diagnose the problem and get it
working. You can contact me at my email address on the
ansvr
download page.
If you just need blind solving, the most expedient thing to do would
be to install ansvr on your windows box, that way you would have it
running in a few clicks with minimal effort.
Andy
On 6/3/2020 8:23 AM, Richard Lee [via
AstroImageJ] wrote:
Hello Well I'm definitely not a Linux expert .. but there is a
related 4 year old SGP thread. Andy Galasso is the ansvr developer
http://forum.mainsequencesoftware.com/t/using-local-installation-of-astrometry/3697/2
Richard