Re: plate solving

Posted by karenacollins on Dec 24, 2015; 4:24am
URL: http://astroimagej.170.s1.nabble.com/plate-solving-tp283p301.html

Hi Karsten,

The timeout happens because ansvr uses a slightly different processing
sequence than nova. I'll not go into those details since they are pretty
much hidden from the user, but the latest daily build now allows up to
10 minutes during the part of the handshake where ansvr does the
solving. I can consider adding an option to allow the user to set the
timeout if the 10 minutes doesn't work for the general case.

By the way, my simple field solves were taking about a minute. I just
found out with Andy's help that if I remove all the index files except
the ones from ~20% to ~150% of my typical FOVs, the same solves now take
only 5 seconds!

You need to actually move/remove the unused index files from:
C:\Users\<your_username>\AppData\Local\cygwin_ansvr\usr\share\astrometry\data\

And yes, a BIG thanks to Andy Galasso for quickly making the ansvr
changes to support the AIJ interface!

Karen