Hi Grant,

why don't you give the command line version a try? You don't have to upload anything, you run it localy AND it is amizingly fast as I pointed out in a message earlier.

Christian

 
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> Von: grantcblair <g.blair@...>
>An: guide-user@yahoogroups.com
>Gesendet: 14:24 Donnerstag, 21.Juni 2012
>Betreff: [guide-user] Re: Astrometry.net
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>Hi Bob,
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>I've seen that a few times, along with a whole host of other issues which render Astrometry.net essentially useless for me.
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>For one, it appears to require a fast, stable internet connection. I do not have that from my rural observatory, being restricted to what would be called "dial up" speeds.
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>Typical uncalibrated image sizes are around, say, 10Mbytes for me once I convert to JPG format. They can take AGES to upload to anywhere, hence I really need a local solution, not one internet-based.
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>When I do get an image to upload to Astrometry.net, it spends a paltry 10 seconds attempting to identify it and then tells me:
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>Unfortunately, we failed to identify your image.
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>Isn't that ever so helpful?
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>Only one time have I seen it actually do a plate-solve "successfully" and this was on an image of the area around M51. Which it informed me was somewhere in Fornax!
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>I could go on (but I won't)...
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>Grant in NJ
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>--- In guide-user@yahoogroups.com, robertjmodic@... wrote:
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>> I've seen several people refer to Astrometry.net for plate solving
>> images. I thought I would give it a try, so I tried to upload a
>> .fts image of mine. I keep getting a "The connection was reset" error. The upload never happens. Same result the last three days.
>> Tried three browsers (Firefox, Opera and IE).
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>> Anyone else have similar problems?
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>> Bob
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