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Subject: Re: Thanks!!! and an issue
From: Jasem Mutlaq <mutlaqja () ikarustech ! com>
Date: 2021-11-27 7:27:18
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Hello Walter,
Glad you find KStars useful, welcome aboard! Regarding the FITS WCS error,
that's a bug fixed in recent KStars. Are you on KStars v3.5.6?
--
Best Regards,
Jasem Mutlaq
On Sat, Nov 27, 2021 at 9:56 AM Walter Knesel <wknesel@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> First of all, I am a Linux person, and want to use windows as little as
> possible. Second, I have been an amateur astronomer for over 20 yrs. and
> an astrophotographer for about 2 years. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU
> !!!!! for building a astrophotography platform that does not rely
> on Windows / ascom. And really works, and does not make me feel like a 2nd
> class citizen.
>
> I do like that I have been able to put indilib on a raspberry pi, runs my
> zwo devices, I can use my laptop in my house (warm) wirelessly. Save the
> pics
> on a pi flash drive or on my laptop. I do use windows deep sky stacker,
> would like to move that off windows..... and I can use Gimp 2.10+ on Linux
> instead of
> photoshop / pix insight / etc. I know stellar mate is out there, like
> building my own, and you have kept me out of an ASI air which means I could
> buy a non-zwo camera.
>
> Love it.
>
> I did run into something recently that was disappointing. Simply, because
> I did not do any alignment (or plate solve in particular), pointed the
> scope at the eclipse moon directly.
> I did get a preview picture (fits) of the moon, but I found I could not
> save any of them, because it had no world coordinates, ie. save would not
> work because the fits picture
> did not have and could not be plate solved to get those coordinates. I
> understand it wanting to complain about data it does not have. My complaint
> is that it needs to find a way
> to save the file anyway, no matter how problems it has. I realize a
> read-only file system would be a show stopper. But it should work if it
> can't get some / all the file header info
> it wants.
>
> My scenario is that I live with clouds, they stop me often enough. On this
> night, it was somewhat broken clouds in parts of the sky. By the time I
> really wanted to polar align,
> the clouds blocked that, essentially for the time I wanted to take photos.
> But I could crudely get past that (home position roughly pretty good). I
> had an optical, not camera,
> finder scope, and could get to the moon when clouds were not too heavy.
> Seeing stars however, was not possible. So plate solving was simply not
> going to work. So like I said,
> I could get a preview picture, but could not save it (always got the no
> coordinates error popup). You might tell me that if I had scheduled a
> single shot and told it where to save, that might have worked. I realized
> later that
> if I had been determined, I could have saved the whole preview window and
> clipped the picture of it with gimp later. But I really want preview save
> to work, and I think you all
> would too. I don't know but maybe the same problem might exist if somebody
> wanted to take preview snaps of the sun with a solar filter? I also
> understand if I had a DSLR
> as the camera, this would not be a problem, but I am one of the people who
> don't, so I really needed this to work.
>
> If there is other software that would work with ekos and let me save the
> photo, I am interested, but I currently doubt that kind of integration
> currently exists.
>
> Thanks again, I really appreciate all the work that has been done and is
> still going,
> Wally Knesel
>
>
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<div dir="ltr">Hello Walter,<div><br></div><div>Glad you find KStars useful, welcome \
aboard! Regarding the FITS WCS error, that's a bug fixed in recent KStars. Are \
you on KStars v3.5.6?</div><div><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" \
class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div \
dir="ltr"><div>--</div><div>Best Regards,<br>Jasem \
Mutlaq<br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div></div><br><div \
class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Nov 27, 2021 at 9:56 AM \
Walter Knesel <<a href="mailto:wknesel@yahoo.com">wknesel@yahoo.com</a>> \
wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px \
0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div \
style="font-family:"Helvetica \
Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div dir="ltr">Hi,</div><div \
dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">First of all, I am a Linux person, and want to use \
windows as little as possible. Second, I have been an amateur astronomer for over \
20 yrs. and <br></div><div dir="ltr">an astrophotographer for about 2 years. THANK \
YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU !!!!! for building a astrophotography platform that does \
not rely <br></div><div dir="ltr">on Windows / ascom. And really works, and does not \
make me feel like a 2nd class citizen. <br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div \
dir="ltr">I do like that I have been able to put indilib on a raspberry pi, runs my \
zwo devices, I can use my laptop in my house (warm) wirelessly. Save the pics \
<br></div><div dir="ltr">on a pi flash drive or on my laptop. I do use windows deep \
sky stacker, would like to move that off windows..... and I can use Gimp 2.10+ on \
Linux instead of <br></div><div dir="ltr">photoshop / pix insight / etc. I know \
stellar mate is out there, like building my own, and you have kept me out of an ASI \
air which means I could buy a non-zwo camera.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div \
dir="ltr">Love it.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">I did run into \
something recently that was disappointing. Simply, because I did not do any alignment \
(or plate solve in particular), pointed the scope at the eclipse moon \
directly.</div><div dir="ltr">I did get a preview picture (fits) of the moon, but I \
found I could not save any of them, because it had no world coordinates, ie. save \
would not work because the fits picture <br></div><div dir="ltr">did not have and \
could not be plate solved to get those coordinates. I understand it wanting to \
complain about data it does not have. My complaint is that it needs to find a way \
<br></div><div dir="ltr">to save the file anyway, no matter how problems it has. I \
realize a read-only file system would be a show stopper. But it should work if it \
can't get some / all the file header info <br></div><div dir="ltr">it wants. \
<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">My scenario is that I live with \
clouds, they stop me often enough. On this night, it was somewhat broken clouds in \
parts of the sky. By the time I really wanted to polar align, <br></div><div \
dir="ltr">the clouds blocked that, essentially for the time I wanted to take photos. \
But I could crudely get past that (home position roughly pretty good). I had an \
optical, not camera, <br></div><div dir="ltr">finder scope, and could get to the moon \
when clouds were not too heavy. Seeing stars however, was not possible. So plate \
solving was simply not going to work. So like I said,</div><div dir="ltr">I could get \
a preview picture, but could not save it (always got the no coordinates error popup). \
You might tell me that if I had scheduled a single shot and told it where to save, \
that might have worked. I realized later that <br></div><div dir="ltr">if I had been \
determined, I could have saved the whole preview window and clipped the picture of it \
with gimp later. But I really want preview save to work, and I think you all \
<br></div><div dir="ltr">would too. I don't know but maybe the same problem might \
exist if somebody wanted to take preview snaps of the sun with a solar filter? I also \
understand if I had a DSLR <br></div><div dir="ltr">as the camera, this would not be \
a problem, but I am one of the people who don't, so I really needed this to \
work.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">If there is other software that \
would work with ekos and let me save the photo, I am interested, but I currently \
doubt that kind of integration currently exists. <br></div><div \
dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Thanks again, I really appreciate all the work \
that has been done and is still going,</div><div dir="ltr">Wally Knesel<br></div><div \
dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div></blockquote></div>
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