Re: plate solving

Posted by Karsten Schindler on Dec 24, 2015; 3:40am
URL: http://astroimagej.170.s1.nabble.com/plate-solving-tp283p300.html

Hi Karen,

Thanks to the added option and Andy Galasso's instant help when I told him about my unsuccessful initial tests, AstroImageJ is now able to use a local astrometry.net server through ansvr v0.17! This is great! (Thank you Andy for adding the capability to process x,y lists!)

I noticed that AstroImageJ has a hard coded server time-out of 30s. If the local server does not respond within 30s with a solution as it did not finish a solve yet (i.e. slow machine, or a difficult narrow field), AstroImageJ resubmits the image, probably assuming the server was not responding in the first place. Although 30s is often enough to solve a field when you know about the properties of the image at hand, it would be good if you could add another option that allows the user to set the server time-out by himself, based on typical solve times on the respective machine.

Happy holidays!!

Karsten