Unable to choose ASTAP Agent

[timsurber]

I prefer to use ASTAP over Astrometry because of the better performance when blind solving on a weak CPU.

I have activated the ASTAP Agent, but I can only choose Astrometry.

[rumengb]

ASTAP Agent is deprecated, as Han the creator of ASTAP suddenly decided to remove all the changes he made to ASTAP to integrate it with INDIGO without any notification. So INDIGO works with one particular ancient version of astap which is no longer supported. Therefore Ain does not load and does work with ASTAP. However, if you tune the parameters correctly Astrometry on Raspberry Pi 4 can solve frames for several seconds. My field is 2x3 degrees and I have it solved for 4-5s.

Please look at: https://github.com/indigo-astronomy/indigo/blob/master/indigo_docs/PLATE_SOLVING.md

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I prefer to use ASTAP over Astrometry because of the better performance when blind solving on a weak CPU.

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[timsurber]

Astrometry does not work correctly for me. Try blindsolving the attached picture, no problem on ASTAP does not solve on Astrometry.

Would you accept patches to make ASTAP work again? I think it would be great for the community to have options.

[rumengb]

This image is blind solved in 3.1s on Raspberry Pi with astrometry and RPi is pretty slow compared to a PC. See the image upload and solved timestamps on the screenshot:

so you must be doing something wrong :)

[timsurber]

You are right, I was missing one index file. On my hardware (Allwinner H618) it solves in around 15 seconds, which is okay I guess. Maybe I will look into further optimizations sometime.

Thank you