KStars (stable release and latest commit) is not optimized for the newest Plasma version.
After startup:
@Dirk
hy wrote:
- Start Ekos, connect to Indi
- In the Indi Control Panel, Telescope Simulator Tab, Simulation sub-tab, set Pole Azm to some error (e.g. 0.3 degrees) and Pole elev to some error (e.g. 0.5). Those numbers are in degrees, and I'm not sure what the MA and ME stand for. Hit set. Save configuration in the options sub tab.
- In the Ekos window, unpark your mount if it is parked.
- In the KStars Skymap, Move the telescope's position away from the pole. Even if you want to simulate PAA near the pole, move it 1-degree away at least. The simulator seems to have an issue when it is very close to the pole.
- Back in the Ekos window, Align tab, you can now start polar alignment.
@Hy
so much work, such a clean code I barely understand at first glance.
Thank you!
This is pedantic, I know, sorry:
hy wrote: Re: "how to misalign...": Did something go wrong? Please explain further.
hy wrote: you got it working with the simulator.
Start Ekos, connect to Indi
In the Indi Control Panel, Telescope Simulator Tab, Simulation sub-tab, set Pole Azm to some error (e.g. 0.3 degrees) and Pole elev to some error (e.g. 0.5). Those numbers are in degrees, and I'm not sure what the MA and ME stand for. Hit set. Save configuration in the options sub tab.[/li]
In the Ekos window, unpark your mount if it is parked. [/li]
In the KStars Skymap, Move the telescope's position away from the pole. Even if you want to simulate PAA near the pole, move it 1-degree away at least. The simulator seems to have an issue when it is very close to the pole. [/li]
Back in the Ekos window, Align tab, you can now start polar alignment.
Thank you Hy,
currently I can only test the ui in the simulator.
There is a discrepancy between your explanation and the information label.
hy wrote: At this point, you first correct the mount's altitude error by adjusting your altitude knob such that your selected star moves along the yellow line.
When the star reaches the end of the yellow line, and meets the green line, adjust one of your azimuth knobs so that the star moves along the green line.
Once you've completed that, you're done. Click done.
Ok
I ended up pulling the stellarsolver repo from github.
After compiling the sources I installed it over the existing installation which was already stellarsolver version 1.6.
But the CMakeLists.txt had 4 changes. This seems to be crucial.
My local project is up to date and now also in a working state.
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airscott wrote:
This is one of the most frustrating pieces of UI in the internal guider to me, (..) We need better names for some of these parameters (..) and labels above the two columns.
I thought it might be an error because of some kind of cached variable. I trashed the whole kstars directory and cloned the repo.
Same error:
CMake Error at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/cmake/StellarSolver/StellarSolverConfig.cmake:89 (message):
The imported target "StellarSolver::stellarsolver" references the file
"/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstellarsolver.so.1.5"
but this file does not exist. Possible reasons include:
* The file was deleted, renamed, or moved to another location.
* An install or uninstall procedure did not complete successfully.
* The installation package was faulty and contained
"/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/cmake/StellarSolver/StellarSolverConfig.cmake"
but not all the files it references.
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@Dev-team
Suddenly cmake is confused because it does not find stellarsolver.
I added the path to libstellarsolver.so to the file
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/cmake/StellarSolver/StellarSolverConfig.cmake
set_target_properties(StellarSolver::stellarsolver PROPERTIES
INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES "/usr/include/libstellarsolver"
INTERFACE_LINK_LIBRARIES "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstellarsolver.so;/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcfitsio.so;/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgsl.so;/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgslcblas.so;/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libwcs.so;Qt5::Core;Qt5::Network;Qt5::Widgets;Qt5::Concurrent;-lpthread"
)
And now Qt Creator complains:
The imported target "StellarSolver::stellarsolver" references the file
"/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstellarsolver.so.1.5"
In the directory are 3 files:
libstellarsolver.so -> libstellarsolver.so.1
libstellarsolver.so.1 -> libstellarsolver.so.1.6
libstellarsolver.so.1.6
So the version 1.6 should be referenced.
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Ok, I step further - thanks to pawel-soja!
But, still not there:
fatal: unable to connect to anongit.freedesktop.org:
anongit.freedesktop.org[0: 131.252.210.161]: errno=Connection refused
Action: fetch for libs/dbus-kstars:master FAILED
*** Craft all failed: libs/dbus-kstars after 0 seconds ***
fatal error: package libs/dbus-kstars all failed
Craft stopped with out completing
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~ Something failed
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And a sidenote (because the build environment is not fully generated):
QtCreator is not able to configure the project:
Could not find a package configuration file provided by "Qt5Qml" with any
of the following names:
Qt5QmlConfig.cmake
qt5qml-config.cmake
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