well last night was a complete disaster from start to finish!!

[alacant]

2 hours ago, Wirral man said:

live near me i would pay for lessions

I'm sure someone here would have you up and running in a matter of minutes. Far less satisfying of course;)

[Wirral man]

well success i have used both cdc and stellarium to sync star alignment have to be honest stellarium scope needed to be setup and restart stellarium a couple of times but cdc no issues at all so thats that sorted next i want to try plate solving need some dummy files 

[alacant]

8 hours ago, Wirral man said:

need some dummy files

Here's one @ m101, straight from APT. Canon 700d, 1200mm. HTH.

[Wirral man]

1 hour ago, alacant said:

Here's one @ m101, straight from APT. Canon 700d, 1200mm. HTH.

your a star thanks will try it thanks

[Wirral man]

15 minutes ago, Wirral man said:

your a star thanks will try it thanks

just had a thought before i try this will it work as i have set up astro tortilla just for my camera which gives a different fov to the sample you sent 

[alacant]

17 minutes ago, Wirral man said:

astro tortilla

Ah. I thought you were using APT which has its own -easy to use- plate solving interface. Maybe worth considering using that rather than introducing yet another piece of software? In APT you can choose cameras on the fly. JTOL and HTH.

[Wirral man]

ok will give it a run

[knobby]

Don't forget, when you get a workflow that is right for you , you can edit the reminder that pops up in APT to your own list .

[Wirral man]

well not going well using apt i click on point craft select objects i have the test image loaded up on the screen when i click solve it says it cant find plate solver 2 which is downloaded and have entered the correct path to folder so ???

[LightBucket]

31 minutes ago, Wirral man said:

well not going well using apt i click on point craft select objects i have the test image loaded up on the screen when i click solve it says it cant find plate solver 2 which is downloaded and have entered the correct path to folder so ???

And you have downloaded the correct catalogue files too...??

[david_taurus83]

Have you downloaded the UCAC3 directories? Have you entered your correct location into Platesolve2?

[david_taurus83]

See attached. I just done a blind solve on a sub i took saturday night. Took 19 seconds! Also, have you entered the correct settings in the Tools tab for camera and focal length?

[Wirral man]

ok done all that i click on solve in apt and get warning message runtime error 76 path not found

[david_taurus83]

The settings for Platesolve. Do they look identical to mine? Apart from the obvious location and directory paths.

[Wirral man]

yes they do if i open plate solve it shows up on the screen but if i open it up from apt i get that message feel like smashing the whole lot up tbh

[david_taurus83]

Take a screen shot of your APT settings please.

[david_taurus83]

Ok, I've just tested this. Lets make sure Platesolver is working. Save the below image to your desktop. Its M57 in fits format. Open up Platesolver on its own. Open the file in Platesolver. In the RA and Dec boxes type the approx position of M57. So RA 18 50 30, Dec 33 00 00. Hit plate match and you should get the correct result. If that works then we know Platesolver is working.

Single__0002_ISO800_30s__24C_2018-05-26_23-59-26.fit

[david_taurus83]

Should get a result as below:

[Wirral man]

yes it works on its own but what do you do with it. as for apt im sick of it just keeps saying it cant find plate solve 

[spillage]

It sounds like the location to platesolve2 is wrong. Platesolve2 should pop up once you click on solve.

[Wirral man]

right now changed the location again now it says can't find apm catalogue...aahhhhh im going to uninstall it all and start again

[david_taurus83]

Ok. Platesolving on its own works. Great. Now we need to look at APT. Go to the settings tab in Pointcraft. You need to make sure the directory path points APT to Platesolve 2.28. See below. I put the whole Platesolve folder into the same one as all my astro images. Within that folder, I also put the UCAC3 folders. So you should have a path something like below. Remember though, if you move the folder now you will have to correct the directory path from withing Platesolve 2.28 as well.

[spillage]

No need to uninstall it all. Just take your time. Let me fire up my tele computer and remote in to check my side.

Mine is the same.

 

And this is Platesolve.

[Wirral man]

no i have deleted the whole effing lot going to start again so with platesolve 2 i have to download all 3 files ie application, apm,uch.. and place them all in one folder then open point craft and assign the path 

[david_taurus83]

It didn't work for me first time either. Just need to take it one step at a time. I put the folders in my pictures file so if I need to reinstall anything I know where they all are.