![]() I copied in code from KStars to support loading images, display images, and star extracting images since that work was already done. ![]() So that is why I created this repository. Goal 1: Test and Perfect Settings in Astrometry and SExtractor to make it more efficient.Īfter we released the new version KStars and many people reported that it sped up plate solving and the people who were having problems said that it fixed their problems, I decided that it might be a good idea to setup a separate program as a playground to see if I could perfect some of the parameters for SExtractor and Astrometry to make them more efficient and speed it up even more. This worked very well and in fact, the process of using SExtractor first and then second seemed to give us a boost in speed. In February of 2020, in response to those issues, I came up with another plan based on information on 's website that if SExtractor was used on the data first, we could avoid using python and netpbm. It worked for the majority of users, but there were some issues. Unfortunately, we have had some issues over the years with certain Macs running the code and also with python configurations on some people's computers. When I and a couple of others ported KStars to Mac OS X a couple of years ago, I spent a lot of time getting built and set up within the app bundle along with its dependencies so that users would have a much easier time getting KStars working and wouldn't have to spend lots of time trying to install Homebrew and dependencies to get it all working. I have been working for the last several years with the Open Source KStars and INDI projects and we have been calling on as an external program using QProcess on Linux for a number of years. None of these things will stop the program from running, but it does make it more difficult to set up and use and all of the files and dependencies and configuration files must be setup properly in order to get it to work. On Windows, however, it must be run within a compatibility layer such as Microsoft Subsystem for Linux, Cygwin, or ANSVR. With the correct recipes in homebrew, craft, macports, or other package managers, it can be installed and run from the command line on Mac OS X as well. It is fairly easy to install on Linux and works incredibly well in that evironment.
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