If your computer is stuck because of a read write issue in the .../AppData/temp folder please try this modified version that will just use a temp folder in the c: drive www.setiastro.com/s/blindsolver2001.zip please unzip and place the file in program files/pixinsight/src/scripts then add it as a feature script (scripts -> feature scripts -> add, navigate back to the pixinsight/src/scripts folder and click "Select Folder") let me know if this works for you Frank
Not sure what I’m doing wrong but after entering the API key and running the script, I keep getting several iterations of “attempting to log in” in the process console.
@@ssbhide123 if you can email me a screenshot of your console before it starts looping so i can see what is being written. frank@setiastro.com What operating system are you on?
Had a cloudy weekend and was reworking some old data and could not get image solver to work at all. Fired up Blind Solver 2000 and it worked both times perfectly, then image solver worked and then SPCC worked. It was excellent and I really appreciate your work on these scripts. You do good work!. Thanks!!
That is great to hear! I had to use it myself just yesterday as ImageSolver failed. Why there is no default blind solve failover already built in PI still boggles my mind!!
You are awesome, thank you for yet another gift to the community. I was baffled as to why PI didn't do blind solving - it was like a million dollar car with wind down windows - why? Seems like an attitude issue, which is a shame. However you fixed it, so thank you again.
This is just what I need for those occasions where PI doesn't do a great job of the stacking and I have to turn to AstroPixel Processor to get the job as APP doesn't save the astrometric solution to the stack. Thanks so much.
Thanks so much! This is something so usefull. Last time I was trying to solve one of my old images with PI imagesolver was yday. No succes. Today, with yours script, succes!
I never thought we'd see this for PI. Amazing. Now if only there was a way to create little post it notes to save to the desktop of PI like process icons. I could get rid of all these scraps of paper.
Thank you so much for this amazing work! As usual, we can all enjoy great scripts for free! PS: I would advise you to edit the video to completely hide the part where you log in to your Astrometry account. We can still see your email address. Also, the link on your website points to your AstroDeth script; only the link in the image is correct.
FWIW - there is a thing called WSL which is Linux under Windows. I have not tried PixInsight on it, but I can do basically anything I could do on one of my Linux VMs in WSL.I am not sure about how the GPU is handled in WSL, but at the very least, it's a Linux you may be able to use on a Windows machine for basic testing without having to buy a new (to you) machine. For some reason, the blind solver script is not coming down in my repository. I have all of the other Seti Astro scripts, but that does not seem to be downloading either to Mac or Windows. That said, these scripts have been amazing time savers. When I figure out what I am doing wrong with the repository, I expect this to be amazingly useful too.
Go to scripts->feature scripts->add. Navigate to the /pixinsight/src/scripts folder and click Select Folder. PI will go back through everything it downloaded and add any it misses
Wow! Another time-saving script to do what I've had to do manually for a while! Worked great under my Windows install but does not work with my Kubunto install though.
@@setiv2I don't see an email contact. At the bottom of the Blind Solver window I get "Error obtaining session key." after clicking "Start Plate Solve". I do have my correct API key.
My PI is not recognizing there is an update. I have all the other Seti Astro scripts but this one does not download/install. Double checked the repository link and checked for updates manually in PI several times, also restarted PI. Please advise what I could still try.
Go to scripts->feature scripts->add then navigate to the /pixinsight/src/scripts folder. Click Select Folder. PI will then go through everything it downloaded and add any it missed
Thanks for all the plugins you make, great work! However, you might want to re-edit this video as there are 7 frames during the login in which both email addresses are plainly visible without blurring. I assume you did not mean to show them.
Hi , I have this error while executing the script : Processing script file: C:/Program Files/PixInsight/src/scripts/BlindImageSolver/BlindSolver2000.js *** Error: *** Error: C:/Program Files/PixInsight/src/scripts/BlindImageSolver/BlindSolver2000.js, line 872: include file not found: AdP/ImageSolver.js . Any idea ?
It shouldve been supported already, but i had no way to test it. Working through troubleshooting now. If you want to help the troubleshooting efforts please shoot me an email frank@setiastro.com
Script doesn't work for me, says Job ID not found or is null... Perhaps my 2x drizzled image is too large. I also had no way to stop it, had to force quit PI. :(
Hi Frank, Marvelous work, thanks a lot. I'm getting warnings in the console during the execution. When looking the code it seems to happen when running the image solver. First warning is when setting the filePath, a second time when initializing the parameters and a last time when assinging a value to the information script variable. Here is what the info in the console looks like: ... * Convergence reached after 4 iterations. Saving keywords... Saving properties... ================================================================================================== Creation time ............ 2024-09-18 10:39:44 UTC Creation software ........ PixInsight 1.8.9-3 / ImageSolver 6.2.12 (Windows) Reference catalog ........ Gaia DR3 Linear transformation matrix (world[ra,dec] = matrix * image[x,y]): +1.98407997e-04 -2.98119742e-04 +2.65645038e-03 +2.98026305e-04 +1.98457607e-04 -1.34539315e+00 WCS transformation ....... Thin plate spline Control points ........... 1446 Spline lengths ........... l:1446 b:1446 X:1446 Y:1446 Projection ............... Gnomonic Projection origin ........ [3123.938353 2087.989200] px -> [RA: 12 35 10.637 Dec: +26 00 36.82] Resolution ............... 1.289 arcsec/px Rotation ................. 123.644 deg Reference system ......... ICRS Observation start time ... 2024-05-27 12:00:00 UTC Focal distance ........... 300.81 mm Pixel size ............... 1.88 um Field of view ............ 2d 14' 14.3" x 1d 29' 43.3" Image center ............. RA: 12 35 10.636 Dec: +26 00 36.82 ex: -0.000139 px ey: -0.000029 px Image bounds: top-left .............. RA: 12 35 11.217 Dec: +24 40 06.09 ex: -1.535628 px ey: -1.386849 px top-right ............. RA: 12 40 42.888 Dec: +26 31 09.22 ex: +1.218936 px ey: -1.278793 px bottom-left ........... RA: 12 29 41.238 Dec: +25 29 17.51 ex: -1.519858 px ey: +1.727079 px bottom-right .......... RA: 12 35 09.993 Dec: +27 21 08.25 ex: +1.099154 px ey: +1.099096 px ================================================================================================== ** Warning [019]: C:/Program Files/PixInsight/src/scripts/BlindSolver2000.js, line 876: "filePath" is read-only ** Warning [019]: C:/Program Files/PixInsight/src/scripts/BlindSolver2000.js, line 888: "parameters" is read-only ** Warning [019]: C:/Program Files/PixInsight/src/scripts/BlindSolver2000.js, line 892: "information" is read-only It does solve the image so they don't seem to cause any issue. Not sure whether you are seeing the same?
Yeah dont worry about the warnings. There are a bunch at the top too. It happens because thr PI written ImageSolver is trying to do a couple of clean up activities but BlindSolve2000 still has control. The only way to fix that is to change ImageSolver, but that is PI written so cant do anything about it. Doesnt affect operation in the slightest.
If your computer is stuck because of a read write issue in the .../AppData/temp folder please try this modified version that will just use a temp folder in the c: drive
www.setiastro.com/s/blindsolver2001.zip
please unzip and place the file in program files/pixinsight/src/scripts then add it as a feature script (scripts -> feature scripts -> add, navigate back to the pixinsight/src/scripts folder and click "Select Folder")
let me know if this works for you
Frank
Not sure what I’m doing wrong but after entering the API key and running the script, I keep getting several iterations of “attempting to log in” in the process console.
@@AstroIsland shoot me an email of what you are seeing in the concole frank@setiastro.com
@@setiv2 same for me. It tries to login multiple times and then timeout message appears
@@ssbhide123 if you can email me a screenshot of your console before it starts looping so i can see what is being written. frank@setiastro.com
What operating system are you on?
@@setiv2Sure. I’ll send it off to off to you today. Clear skies!
Had to use it again over the weekend, I am very impressed it works great every time. Thank you!!!!
Excellent, fantastic script thank you so much.
Had a cloudy weekend and was reworking some old data and could not get image solver to work at all. Fired up Blind Solver 2000 and it worked both times perfectly, then image solver worked and then SPCC worked. It was excellent and I really appreciate your work on these scripts. You do good work!. Thanks!!
That is great to hear! I had to use it myself just yesterday as ImageSolver failed. Why there is no default blind solve failover already built in PI still boggles my mind!!
Awesome job! Works perfectly on my Mac.
You are awesome, thank you for yet another gift to the community. I was baffled as to why PI didn't do blind solving - it was like a million dollar car with wind down windows - why? Seems like an attitude issue, which is a shame. However you fixed it, so thank you again.
Thanks for everything you have done so far making it so much easier for all of us.
Huge thanks for making this script available to the PI community!
Thank You so much!!! I cannot understand why PI didn’t do this a long time ago…🎉
@@DavidTonucci i know! And they are so against it too. Really arrogant about it, it is weird!
You solved yet another PixInsight issue for me! You are doing amazing work with these!
I don't know how your brain works but please keep it going, Your work is exceptional, thank you so much for helping out the community.
That's why he is the GOAT!
Damn Frank. You are on a roll lately. This is awesome! Thanks a million for this and the other scripts as well.
Another very useful script, Frank! Thank you!
This is just what I need for those occasions where PI doesn't do a great job of the stacking and I have to turn to AstroPixel Processor to get the job as APP doesn't save the astrometric solution to the stack. Thanks so much.
You are the best thks a lot for yr effort , you made pixinsight so easy👏👏👏
Hi, thanks for using my photo ;) The script works great on Windows 11.
It is such a cool image!!
Hi - I tried it a few moments ago and it works like a charm. Huge thanks - you are a star for doing this :)
thank you so so much! this will be so helpful for so many people, myself included!
This was desperately needed. Thanks for stepping up and creating this!
Worked out without any issues.. AWESOME !!! Thanks much.
Thanks so much for this script. Like all your others, this is great.
Works perfectly on mac, thank you for your work!
another great job Frank!
Glad to hear from you❤
Awesome video and script. Thank´s Seti Astro.
Thank you so much!!
Thanks so much! This is something so usefull. Last time I was trying to solve one of my old images with PI imagesolver was yday. No succes. Today, with yours script, succes!
FANTASTIC!
Thanks again for your efforts.
Fantastic!!
Brilliant!
Excellent!
I never thought we'd see this for PI. Amazing. Now if only there was a way to create little post it notes to save to the desktop of PI like process icons. I could get rid of all these scraps of paper.
That actually is doable if it is something we want lol
Brilliant! Thank you 🙏!
huge fan of this!!!!!!!
Thank you so much for this amazing work! As usual, we can all enjoy great scripts for free!
PS: I would advise you to edit the video to completely hide the part where you log in to your Astrometry account. We can still see your email address.
Also, the link on your website points to your AstroDeth script; only the link in the image is correct.
I thought i blurred it. I guess you can see it for like 1 frame, edited the video. I fixed the link. Thanks for the catches
FWIW - there is a thing called WSL which is Linux under Windows. I have not tried PixInsight on it, but I can do basically anything I could do on one of my Linux VMs in WSL.I am not sure about how the GPU is handled in WSL, but at the very least, it's a Linux you may be able to use on a Windows machine for basic testing without having to buy a new (to you) machine. For some reason, the blind solver script is not coming down in my repository. I have all of the other Seti Astro scripts, but that does not seem to be downloading either to Mac or Windows. That said, these scripts have been amazing time savers. When I figure out what I am doing wrong with the repository, I expect this to be amazingly useful too.
Go to scripts->feature scripts->add. Navigate to the /pixinsight/src/scripts folder and click Select Folder. PI will go back through everything it downloaded and add any it misses
Wow! Another time-saving script to do what I've had to do manually for a while! Worked great under my Windows install but does not work with my Kubunto install though.
You are the first testing on linux i think. If you want to email what you are seeing thst would be great
@@setiv2I don't see an email contact. At the bottom of the Blind Solver window I get "Error obtaining session key." after clicking "Start Plate Solve". I do have my correct API key.
There is an email me button as well as a contact me on my site, but frank@setiastro.com
If your Mac Mini (or Windows machine) has enough memory, you can create a bare-bones Linux virtual machine to test the Linux version of your scripts.
My PI is not recognizing there is an update. I have all the other Seti Astro scripts but this one does not download/install. Double checked the repository link and checked for updates manually in PI several times, also restarted PI. Please advise what I could still try.
Go to scripts->feature scripts->add then navigate to the /pixinsight/src/scripts folder. Click Select Folder. PI will then go through everything it downloaded and add any it missed
@@setiv2 Thanks, that did the trick!
Thanks for all the plugins you make, great work! However, you might want to re-edit this video as there are 7 frames during the login in which both email addresses are plainly visible without blurring. I assume you did not mean to show them.
Will fix it thanks!
Edited the video. Should be all blurred out now whenever youtube gets around to applying the changes. Thanks for the catch!
Hi , I have this error while executing the script : Processing script file: C:/Program Files/PixInsight/src/scripts/BlindImageSolver/BlindSolver2000.js
*** Error: *** Error: C:/Program Files/PixInsight/src/scripts/BlindImageSolver/BlindSolver2000.js, line 872: include file not found: AdP/ImageSolver.js . Any idea ?
You cant have the script file in its own folder. Move the .js file to the src/scripts folder directly
nice job; thanks a lot! Unfortunately I get a platform not supporte message on my linux system. Any plan to support it?
It shouldve been supported already, but i had no way to test it. Working through troubleshooting now. If you want to help the troubleshooting efforts please shoot me an email frank@setiastro.com
how do we install the scripts? dont we put a link in the repository? I dont see what to add their?
@@slmdaddy1 it is right at the top of my pixinsight scripts page. I show where to get the repository link toward the end of the video too
tried it a couple of times with no luck...
Errormessage:
"Waiting for the login process to complete...
Timeout waiting for response file."
@@andreguttesen8982 can you email me a screenshot of the console right as it starts saying waiting on the session login?
@@setiv2 solved, thank you.
hi, did you get his sorted, same here ?
@@trevorcoleman8826 yes. Shoot me an email
@@andreguttesen8982 How? getting the same error.
I've got 'error obtaining session key' !!! I'm on Linux
I have to troubleshoot why it isnt working on linux. If you want to help tgr troubleshooting efforts shoot me an email frank@setiastro.com
Script doesn't work for me, says Job ID not found or is null...
Perhaps my 2x drizzled image is too large.
I also had no way to stop it, had to force quit PI. :(
You didnt wait long enough. Astrometry.net can take up to 10monutes to return a result
All the time I try, it gives me a red flag after several tries of the Login script Process.... HELP
Send me an email of what you are seeing. frank@setiastro.com
@@setiv2 did it
@@setiv2 thx! You got mail!
there is wrong download link on the site, follow to astrodepth :/
Fixed the link
@@setiv2 i got error like that
line 872: include file not found: AdP/ImageSolver.js
image solver standalone works fine
Hi Frank, can you share your discord server link? Thx
discord.gg/vqmeNygV
@@SPACEJUNKastro it is also under my profile links on youtube
windows, mac, linux, pffff. What no love for the FreeBSD folks? I'm pretty sure PixInsight is a native FreeBSD application :)
and hear i thought you knew what you were signing up for if you chose linux... freebsd? a whole other level there :)
Hi Frank,
Marvelous work, thanks a lot. I'm getting warnings in the console during the execution. When looking the code it seems to happen when running the image solver. First warning is when setting the filePath, a second time when initializing the parameters and a last time when assinging a value to the information script variable. Here is what the info in the console looks like:
...
* Convergence reached after 4 iterations.
Saving keywords...
Saving properties...
==================================================================================================
Creation time ............ 2024-09-18 10:39:44 UTC
Creation software ........ PixInsight 1.8.9-3 / ImageSolver 6.2.12 (Windows)
Reference catalog ........ Gaia DR3
Linear transformation matrix (world[ra,dec] = matrix * image[x,y]):
+1.98407997e-04 -2.98119742e-04 +2.65645038e-03
+2.98026305e-04 +1.98457607e-04 -1.34539315e+00
WCS transformation ....... Thin plate spline
Control points ........... 1446
Spline lengths ........... l:1446 b:1446 X:1446 Y:1446
Projection ............... Gnomonic
Projection origin ........ [3123.938353 2087.989200] px -> [RA: 12 35 10.637 Dec: +26 00 36.82]
Resolution ............... 1.289 arcsec/px
Rotation ................. 123.644 deg
Reference system ......... ICRS
Observation start time ... 2024-05-27 12:00:00 UTC
Focal distance ........... 300.81 mm
Pixel size ............... 1.88 um
Field of view ............ 2d 14' 14.3" x 1d 29' 43.3"
Image center ............. RA: 12 35 10.636 Dec: +26 00 36.82 ex: -0.000139 px ey: -0.000029 px
Image bounds:
top-left .............. RA: 12 35 11.217 Dec: +24 40 06.09 ex: -1.535628 px ey: -1.386849 px
top-right ............. RA: 12 40 42.888 Dec: +26 31 09.22 ex: +1.218936 px ey: -1.278793 px
bottom-left ........... RA: 12 29 41.238 Dec: +25 29 17.51 ex: -1.519858 px ey: +1.727079 px
bottom-right .......... RA: 12 35 09.993 Dec: +27 21 08.25 ex: +1.099154 px ey: +1.099096 px
==================================================================================================
** Warning [019]: C:/Program Files/PixInsight/src/scripts/BlindSolver2000.js, line 876: "filePath" is read-only
** Warning [019]: C:/Program Files/PixInsight/src/scripts/BlindSolver2000.js, line 888: "parameters" is read-only
** Warning [019]: C:/Program Files/PixInsight/src/scripts/BlindSolver2000.js, line 892: "information" is read-only
It does solve the image so they don't seem to cause any issue.
Not sure whether you are seeing the same?
Yeah dont worry about the warnings. There are a bunch at the top too. It happens because thr PI written ImageSolver is trying to do a couple of clean up activities but BlindSolve2000 still has control. The only way to fix that is to change ImageSolver, but that is PI written so cant do anything about it. Doesnt affect operation in the slightest.
Link to our discord: discord.gg/vqmeNygV
is there a link to your discord?
It is on my webpage and profile on youtube :) discord.gg/WSb3zH3T