If you are having any problems with AstroTortilla, or have in the past, it may be worth reading this new section. Enjoy!
Due to popularity, I thought it would be a good idea to update the AstroTortilla tutorial. The settings recommendations have been altered slightly, to be less accurate to your actual field of view. For example, entering 0.525 and 0.655 degrees into Scale minimum and Scale maximum may be pretty exact, but I have found it better to just enter 0.5 and 0.7 degrees (in terms of plate solving successes). The screenshots have been updated accordingly. Moreover, a new section 5 has been written, titled "Things to Try when Plate Solving Fails to Centre the Target or Fails Completely". A bit of a long title but to-the-point. The inspiration has been the various reports from people that despite my tutorial, they still suffer from the dreaded "Field 1 did not solve" or "Re-centering" getting stuck problems. There are number of suggestions in this new section, including downloading the 4100 series of astrometric index files as a last resort (which are more suitable for wide-field setups).
If you are having any problems with AstroTortilla, or have in the past, it may be worth reading this new section. Enjoy!
Dave
26/1/2016 18:15:35
I've been pulling what little hair I have left out of my head for the past 3 days but am still unable to get the example apod4.jpg to load.. The box displays the --downsample 2 --overwrite, but then gives the message No solution in (various) 7.2 sec.
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Hi David,
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Chris
4/10/2016 16:03:57
Hi Kayron: I'm having the same issue - "No solution in (between 15-18) seconds." I'm not giving it a post-processed image - I have a color CMOS, so I was even trying debayered RAW8 images. Still, nothing but the same error message. I increased to 20 second exposures, increased to 45° - what is the next step? Like, if I'm getting that error message, what would be the next step in troubleshooting? I was able to upload images to astronomy.net last night and get them to solve, but Astrotortilla was a no-go. Any advice would be immensely appreciated.
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Phil
17/8/2018 08:19:04
Hi Kayron
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