Anyone here willing to help me test my project?

[samtheeagle]

Thank you! What OS do you use? Let me know where is crashing in what process ... a screenshot might help. Also if it's crashing in the process of plate solving if you can email me the image you are trying to solve along with the catalog you use and hints if set will be great.

I'm at work atm, but I'll sort out all the detail later for you. The machine I tested on is a Windows XP media centre edition laptop. From memory I added a jpeg image of the NGC7000 area, selected it and then asked for it to be solved. I used all default settings, and didn't give any hints.

[larrylart]

From memory I added a jpeg image of the NGC7000 area, selected it and then asked for it to be solved. I used all default settings, and didn't give any hints.

Please email me that image. My guess is that the default wont work, you will probably need to select a bigger catalog like tycho2 and provide a hint since probably the image is at focal > 100mm. It will probably work without a hit as all as well but you will have to increase the number of zoom steps and it might take a very long time to find the fit.

Larry

[NickH]

Still having issues with the latest build on Win7, but happy to wait whilst you iron out other bits

[Steve 1962]

If I'm not too late - it looks excellent - can I join in too?

[larrylart]

It's Never too late! Please download the application and try it. The more feedback the better!

Larry

[larrylart]

A new version has been released with:

- updated the star common names list with a better one

- added extension files one and two to tycho2

- added map for common names with tycho2

- fixed 2mass catalog names display error

- fixed show/hide all objects from menu->view objects

- fixed search in spiral - which is now set default as it's faster (instead of swipe)

- added a simple method to check/notify on updates

- some minor bug fixes

Also, note that now there is a forum on the site to discuss more in depth the technical problems.

Larry

[samtheeagle]

Larry, just a quick question... Is it correct that the filename isn't changing? I just want to make sure I'm downloading from the correct place http://larryo.org/work/information/unimap/test0/unimap_setup_pa_0.exe

[larrylart]

Yes, not for the moment anyway.

[NickH]

I would suggest a build number suffix with new builds Larry

[xboxdevil]

Hi Larry

It worked a treat on my machine (Vista home premium edition), I loaded in a holiday snap of the sky and it picked out Orion, very impressive!

[larrylart]

I would suggest a build number suffix with new builds Larry

Will do starting with next update.

[larrylart]

I am wondering if people here find this application useful? At the concept level what do you think I should change/add to improve it?

[NickH]

Very useful indeed...the ability to take an image and plate solve it on the fly with a free/low cost one shot app is superb

[michaelmorris]

This looks to be a cracking piece of software. Is there a printable version of the documentation?

[larrylart]

Is there a printable version of the documentation?

Not at the moment - the new draft of documentation and tutorials will be available in pdf as well.

[old_eyes]

Larry,

I am certainly going to have a go. I don't have many images, but it will be fun to see how it works.

old_eyes

[Bigfootffk]

I have downloaded the program, And installed it on my Ubuntu 10.04 system under wine, It runs well about 99% of the time with no problems.

[iamjulian]

Fantastic piece of software! Uploaded a random image I took last year and it solved it in great detail. This will be very very useful once the cloud moves off.

[NickH]

How are we doing on

1: Build numbers

2: Implementation in Windows 7

3: Documentation?

Thanks Larry

[larrylart]

Update:

My pc decided to crash on me completly two weeks ago and no matter what under-clocking I did wont work so I bought new hard and better I am now running windows 7 x64

1: Build numbers

All from now will be numbered.

2: Implementation in Windows 7

Since from now on I will continue the development on windows 7 all problems on this platform will be solved. I already solved some issues related to images not loading (which in xp worked with no problem)

3: Documentation?

Here I have't did much progress lately only a small tutorial on plate solving which I haven't yet uploaded on the site.

I will have a new realease in two weeks time or sooner.

Larry

[NickH]

Thanks Larry...good news

Also you may want to put the builds with a build number on a web page link with release notes/bug fix list

[larrylart]

Version 0.0.2 pre-alpha is now available for download from:

UniMap Astronomical Software - Download Page

Larry

[yesyes]

I don't know why but I can never get this program to detect something. I'm now trying with this picture (60MB TIFF!!):

www.yesyesserver.co.uk/astro/Sadr_ps_1.TIF

The bright star in the middle is Sadr.

Do I understand this correctly that the program does plate solving and it should detect and label the stars/objects in the image?

I'm not sure what I'm supposed to configure as a hint. So I'm trying without a hint.

[yesyes]

I think I told it now to look in the Sadr area but it still hasn't found anything.

Is my image not good enough?

Smaller jpeg version attached.

[larrylart]

My fault. somehow the hint selection by common name got broken - don't know yet what's the cause but I put a fix in place ... version 0.0.2.2

This image will solve with Sadr as hint, fl 1000mm and tycho2

Larry