APPM - error
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I'm trying to finally use APPM. (with nina). I updated my license. (106.00 is there sales tax on a license?) anyway. I start the Point model and after the first exposure. I get this error. Invalid floating point operation from APPM ?
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Im' running v1.9.0.7 9.14.21
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Ray Gralak
Hey Ron,
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That doesn't look like an APPM message (it would say "APPM" in the title of the window). Are you sure it's not from the plate solver? Let me guess... ASTAP?? -Ray
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Rouz
I'm using NINA and got that a couple of times, had to restart the model.
Not sure why that happens.
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Ray Gralak
I'm using NINA and got that a couple of times, had to restart the model. The floating-point divide error is displayed being displayed by ASTAP. I've seen ASTAP do this occasionally during testing, but it wasn't consistent. Unless it is often happening, you shouldn't need to start over. APPM will move on to the next point. Not sure why that happens.Only the ASTAP developer would be able to fix this issue. If you set APPM to save failed images, they could be posted to the ASTAP support forum for the author to inspect. -Ray -----Original Message-----
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Sergei
Hi Ray,
I'm also using ASTAP and get quite a few errors on plate solving points in APPM models. Failures also seem to occur very quickly - within a couple of seconds of APPM making a call to ASTAP. Is there a better solver you'd recommend that works more reliably with APPM? I use ASTAP from SGP as well and usually it's quite reliable there, but the sample size is much smaller of course. Thank you for a terrific piece of software in APCC btw - couldn't imagine using my 1100-AE without it! Sergei
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ap@CaptivePhotons.com
Sergei wrote:
I use ASTAP for NINA continually, and now use it for APPM (with NINA as a camera). I have never had it give an error. I have had it fail occasionally to find a solution, especially if you give it bad image scale, but never had it throw an error like that. And I know a lot of other NINA users with similar experience.
That’s not to say it doesn’t, I do not doubt the reports… I am just curious what’s different about how people are using it through APPM?
Are those for whom it is failing using APPM to control the camera (as opposed to another software like TSX or NINA to control the camera)? Could it be something about the FITS headers that variers depending on the capture program?
Speculation purely. But from what I recall the list of other solvers includes some hefty associated software, e.g. to use imagelink from Bisque you need TSX, which is a pretty massive set of software for just a solver. ASTAP is the lean version.
Linwood
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Sergi, I have been using Platesolve 2 with SGP for APPM data collection for more than a year now without problem. The only glitches have been when I forgot to change the image scale parameters in APPM when I changed cameras.
-- Dean Jacobsen Astrobin Image Gallery - https://www.astrobin.com/users/deanjacobsen/
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hmmm i have used pinpoint for a year or so, and now ASTAP with APPM since the 1.9 release. I have not had any errors doing all sky modeling
On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 11:00 AM Sergei <sergei@...> wrote: Hi Ray, --
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ASTAP is the best and fastest. NINA with ASTAP solves always in under 3 seconds ALWAYS. Same install which never errors with NINA. Hoping after spending another 106.00 I can get APPM working finally. It did say it works with NINA and ASTAP?
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I'll try again tonight.
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SEtup but still light out. I clicked this test button. I loaded a APPM pic from last night and it loaded and solved under 3 seconds. All I changed was bin from 1 to 2. I'll try live tonight and update with my results.
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WORKED on it all night - giving up. I couldn't get APPM to work with ASTAP. Oddly - another solver in APPM setup is "SGP"? That's now a solver that's a program like NINA setup with a solver. Why can't I select NINA (setup to solve with ASTAP?) As that works perfectly. I've never had it not solve until I tried solving through APPM with the 106.00 update I bought. = (
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Ron Kramer
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Ray Gralak
WORKED on it all night - giving up. I couldn't get APPM to work with ASTAP. Oddly - another solver inNINA does not expose an interface for external applications like APPM to invoke its plate solver. So have you looked at the failed images to see what they look like? APPM just runs the ASTAP application via the command line. APPM allows you to set any and all of ASTAP's command line parameters, so you may need to adjust them for your FITS images, especially if the images are huge. ASTAP could be running out of memory. For support for ASTAP crashing you must contact the author, just like you would if PinPoint, SkyX, or PlateSolve2 in SGPro had crashed. -Ray -----Original Message-----
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Bill Long
Have you tried updating ASTAP to the latest version?
From: main@ap-gto.groups.io <main@ap-gto.groups.io> on behalf of Ray Gralak <iogroups@...>
Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2021 6:57 PM To: main@ap-gto.groups.io <main@ap-gto.groups.io> Subject: Re: [ap-gto] APPM - error > WORKED on it all night - giving up. I couldn't get APPM to work with ASTAP. Oddly - another solver in
> APPM setup is "SGP"? That's now a solver that's a program like NINA setup with a solver. Why can't I select > NINA (setup to solve with ASTAP?) As that works perfectly. I've never had it not solve until I tried solving > through APPM with the 106.00 update I bought. = ( NINA does not expose an interface for external applications like APPM to invoke its plate solver. So have you looked at the failed images to see what they look like? APPM just runs the ASTAP application via the command line. APPM allows you to set any and all of ASTAP's command line parameters, so you may need to adjust them for your FITS images, especially if the images are huge. ASTAP could be running out of memory. For support for ASTAP crashing you must contact the author, just like you would if PinPoint, SkyX, or PlateSolve2 in SGPro had crashed. -Ray > -----Original Message----- > From: main@ap-gto.groups.io [mailto:main@ap-gto.groups.io] On Behalf Of Ron Kramer > Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2021 6:42 PM > To: main@ap-gto.groups.io > Subject: Re: [ap-gto] APPM - error > > WORKED on it all night - giving up. I couldn't get APPM to work with ASTAP. Oddly - another solver in > APPM setup is "SGP"? That's now a solver that's a program like NINA setup with a solver. Why can't I select > NINA (setup to solve with ASTAP?) As that works perfectly. I've never had it not solve until I tried solving > through APPM with the 106.00 update I bought. = ( > > > On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 6:55 PM Ron Kramer via groups.io <ronkramer1957@...> wrote: > > > SEtup but still light out. I clicked this test button. I loaded a APPM pic from last night and it loaded > and solved under 3 seconds. > > All I changed was bin from 1 to 2. I'll try live tonight and update with my results. > > > > > > > > > -- > > Ron Kramer > https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FRon.R.Kramer&data=04%7C01%7C%7C53d39aed1ab84ca9044708d9797e8c2f%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637674406683740061%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&sdata=DY11pvEVJiQ6U%2FVikoWePmdg%2Ft6fAtskV3FcRea6198%3D&reserved=0 > >
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Sergei
Linwood, Dean, Brian - thank you for sharing. It could well be something in my settings. Just odd that failures on invocation from APPM seem to happen much faster than from SGP where it tends to run a lot longer before (much less frequently) failing to solve. The fact that SGP is also used from APPM as the camera capture interface, thus with the same settings, etc. confounds further.
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Ray Gralak
APPM gives you full control over ASTAP's settings, You can thus misconfigure settings. If you see lots of failures, send the failed images to astap's author. He's the best person to explain why a solve failed.
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-Ray
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ap@CaptivePhotons.com
So are you using APPM to control the camera? It sounds like that may be a difference. I only use NINA to control the camera, could not get APPM to work well (camera is too large I think, or ZWO’s driver handles memory poorly, or both). NINA being 64 bit works.
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Sent: Thursday, September 16, 2021 10:14 PM To: main@ap-gto.groups.io Subject: Re: [ap-gto] APPM - error
Linwood, Dean, Brian - thank you for sharing. It could well be something in my settings. Just odd that failures on invocation from APPM seem to happen much faster than from SGP where it tends to run a lot longer before (much less frequently) failing to solve. The fact that SGP is also used from APPM as the camera capture interface, thus with the same settings, etc. confounds further.
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Assuming you are using NINA for the image capture, do you have the telescope information entered in NINA (Under Options - Equipment)? Maybe ASTAP needs the focal length in the FITS header for the way in which APPM calls it?
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Dale Ghent
It's not entirely clear what your full APPM configuration is, but here's what you should generally have:
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1. Make sure your local copy of ASTAP is updated 2. In NINA, make sure Enable Server is On 3. In APPM, set Camera to NINA 4. In APPM, review the exposure settings. I run my QHY600 with bin2, full frame. 5. The only difference between the default ASTAP settings in APPM is that I limit to 500 stars instead of the default of 1000.
On Sep 16, 2021, at 21:42, Ron Kramer <ronkramer1957@gmail.com> wrote:
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