Using a Mount Simulator allows me to fire up the Polar Alignment module, but Solving keeps failing.
Both Astrometry and Astap timeout, regardless of whether I was shooting "live" or loading an image from SD card to solve.
What am I doing wrong?
logs
Astap
[2020-05-17T01:23:11.478 AEST INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.align] - "Starting solver..."
[2020-05-17T01:23:11.484 AEST INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.align] - "/opt/astap/astap -z 2 -f /tmp/_5153327.JPG -o /tmp/solution"
[2020-05-17T01:25:18.158 AEST INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.align] - "Solver failed. Try again."
Astro.net Offline
2020-05-17T01:57:56 Solver aborted after 181 seconds
2020-05-17T01:57:55 Field 1 did not solve (index index-4200-41.fits, field objects 11-20).
2020-05-17T01:57:44 Field 1 did not solve (index index-4200-42.fits, field objects 11-20).
2020-05-17T01:57:36 Field 1 did not solve (index index-4200-43.fits, field objects 11-20).
2020-05-17T01:57:27 Field 1 did not solve (index index-4200-44.fits, field objects 11-20).
2020-05-17T01:57:12 Field 1 did not solve (index index-4200-45.fits, field objects 11-20).
2020-05-17T01:57:02 Field 1 did not solve (index index-4200-46.fits, field objects 11-20).
2020-05-17T01:56:52 Field 1 did not solve (index index-4200-47.fits, field objects 11-20).
2020-05-17T01:56:45 Field 1 did not solve (index index-4200-00.fits, field objects 1-10).
2020-05-17T01:56:44 Field 1 did not solve (index index-4200-01.fits, field objects 1-10).
2020-05-17T01:56:44 Field 1 did not solve (index index-4200-02.fits, field objects 1-10).
2020-05-17T01:56:43 Field 1 did not solve (index index-4200-03.fits, field objects 1-10).
2020-05-17T01:56:43 Field 1 did not solve (index index-4200-04.fits, field objects 1-10).
2020-05-17T01:56:42 Field 1 did not solve (index index-4200-05.fits, field objects 1-10).
2020-05-17T01:56:42 Field 1 did not solve (index index-4200-06.fits, field objects 1-10).
2020-05-17T01:56:42 Field 1 did not solve (index index-4200-07.fits, field objects 1-10).
2020-05-17T01:56:42 Field 1 did not solve (index index-4200-08.fits, field objects 1-10).
2020-05-17T01:56:41 Field 1 did not solve (index index-4200-09.fits, field objects 1-10).
2020-05-17T01:56:41 Field 1 did not solve (index index-4200-10.fits, field objects 1-10).
2020-05-17T01:56:41 Field 1 did not solve (index index-4200-11.fits, field objects 1-10).
2020-05-17T01:56:41 Field 1 did not solve (index index-4200-12.fits, field objects 1-10).
2020-05-17T01:56:40 Field 1 did not solve (index index-4200-13.fits, field objects 1-10).
2020-05-17T01:56:40 Field 1 did not solve (index index-4200-14.fits, field objects 1-10).
2020-05-17T01:56:40 Field 1 did not solve (index index-4200-15.fits, field objects 1-10).
2020-05-17T01:56:39 Field 1 did not solve (index index-4200-16.fits, field objects 1-10).
2020-05-17T01:56:39 Field 1 did not solve (index index-4200-17.fits, field objects 1-10).
2020-05-17T01:56:39 Field 1 did not solve (index index-4200-18.fits, field objects 1-10).
2020-05-17T01:56:39 Field 1 did not solve (index index-4200-19.fits, field objects 1-10).
2020-05-17T01:56:38 Field 1 did not solve (index index-4200-20.fits, field objects 1-10).
2020-05-17T01:56:38 Field 1 did not solve (index index-4200-21.fits, field objects 1-10).
2020-05-17T01:56:38 Field 1 did not solve (index index-4200-22.fits, field objects 1-10).
2020-05-17T01:56:37 Field 1 did not solve (index index-4200-23.fits, field objects 1-10).
2020-05-17T01:56:37 Field 1 did not solve (index index-4200-24.fits, field objects 1-10).
2020-05-17T01:56:37 Field 1 did not solve (index index-4200-25.fits, field objects 1-10).
2020-05-17T01:56:36 Field 1 did not solve (index index-4200-26.fits, field objects 1-10).
2020-05-17T01:56:36 Field 1 did not solve (index index-4200-27.fits, field objects 1-10).
2020-05-17T01:56:36 Field 1 did not solve (index index-4200-28.fits, field objects 1-10).
2020-05-17T01:56:35 Field 1 did not solve (index index-4200-29.fits, field objects 1-10).
2020-05-17T01:56:35 Field 1 did not solve (index index-4200-30.fits, field objects 1-10).
2020-05-17T01:56:35 Field 1 did not solve (index index-4200-31.fits, field objects 1-10).
2020-05-17T01:56:34 Field 1 did not solve (index index-4200-32.fits, field objects 1-10).
2020-05-17T01:56:34 Field 1 did not solve (index index-4200-33.fits, field objects 1-10).
2020-05-17T01:56:34 Field 1 did not solve (index index-4200-34.fits, field objects 1-10).
2020-05-17T01:56:33 Field 1 did not solve (index index-4200-35.fits, field objects 1-10).
2020-05-17T01:56:33 Field 1 did not solve (index index-4200-36.fits, field objects 1-10).
2020-05-17T01:56:33 Field 1 did not solve (index index-4200-37.fits, field objects 1-10).
2020-05-17T01:56:33 Field 1 did not solve (index index-4200-38.fits, field objects 1-10).
2020-05-17T01:56:32 Field 1 did not solve (index index-4200-39.fits, field objects 1-10).
2020-05-17T01:56:32 Field 1 did not solve (index index-4200-40.fits, field objects 1-10).
2020-05-17T01:56:31 Field 1 did not solve (index index-4200-41.fits, field objects 1-10).
2020-05-17T01:56:31 Field 1 did not solve (index index-4200-42.fits, field objects 1-10).
2020-05-17T01:56:31 Field 1 did not solve (index index-4200-43.fits, field objects 1-10).
2020-05-17T01:56:30 Field 1 did not solve (index index-4200-44.fits, field objects 1-10).
2020-05-17T01:56:30 Field 1 did not solve (index index-4200-45.fits, field objects 1-10).
2020-05-17T01:56:29 Field 1 did not solve (index index-4200-46.fits, field objects 1-10).
2020-05-17T01:56:29 Field 1 did not solve (index index-4200-47.fits, field objects 1-10).
2020-05-17T01:56:29 Reading file "/tmp/_5153327.axy"...
2020-05-17T01:56:27 Solving...
2020-05-17T01:56:24 Reading sort column "FLUX"
Sorting sort column
mmapping input file
Copying table header.
Writing row 0
Done
2020-05-17T01:56:20 simplexy: found 3545 sources.
2020-05-17T01:55:14 Downsampling by 2...
2020-05-17T01:55:14 Extracting sources...
2020-05-17T01:55:09 Read file stdin: 5184 x 3888 pixels x 1 color(s); maxval 255
Using 8-bit output
2020-05-17T01:54:57 jpegtopnm: WRITING PPM FILE
2020-05-17T01:54:56 Reading input file 1 of 1: "/tmp/_5153327.JPG"...
2020-05-17T01:54:56 /usr/bin/solve-field -O --no-plots --no-verify --resort --downsample 2 --config /home/pi/.local/share/kstars/astrometry/astrometry.cfg -W /tmp/solution.wcs /tmp/_5153327.JPG
2020-05-17T01:54:56 Starting solver...
2020-05-17T01:54:56 Solver iteration #1
2020-05-17T01:54:56 Index files index-4201 to index-4206 are missing. Astrometry.net would not be able to adequately solve plates until you install the missing index files. Download the index files from
astrometry.net
2020-05-17T01:54:35 Detected Astrometry.net version 0.76
2020-05-17T01:54:23 World Coordinate System (WCS) is enabled. CCD rotation must be set either manually in the CCD driver or by solving an image before proceeding to capture any further images, otherwise the WCS information may be invalid.
2020-05-17T01:54:23 Idle.