I have tried to plate solve this image last night to resume collecting data. ASTAP and Astro.net both failed and I can't seem to figure out why. It works when I use nova.astrometry.net site. Can anyone help? I tried increasing the search radius but no luck. Also no luck when solving from ASTAP directly.
Yep, it's the North American Nebula. I have installed the g17 database. I am able to plate solve other images.
When I uncheck Use Position and Use Scale, Astro.net works.
When using ASTAP directly, if I use auto FOV, it works. Takes a while but it works. Subsequent attempts are super fast. I just need to figure out how to explicitly set the FOV from ekos.
Thanks for taking the time to point me in the right direction.
It seems passing options to ASTAP via the "Options:" text box under Ekos' Align tab are ignored if edited. The only options supported are the ones defined in the Ekos configuration GUI when you press the little edit button. I would suggest that this text box become disabled or let the user override it after a warning.
I was able to overcome the limitation by creating a bash script:
#!/bin/bash
/opt/astap/astap -r 90 -fov 1.62 "$@"
I then poined Ekos to this script after giving it execution permissions (chmod +x script.sh).