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#51

General Discussion / Plate Solve Challenges

Last post by ztresearch - July 18, 2024, 11:56:05 PM

I am new to Observatory and am trying to plate solve landscape images in order to make measurements of features of aurora and transient luminous events.  I have attempted to plate solve the attached image, but have been unsuccessful using solve and blind solve (using the raw file).  Would appreciate any thoughts and suggestions on this endeavor.   Thank you, Tom W.

#52

Announcements / Observatory 2.0.8

Last post by Sander Berents - May 29, 2024, 07:58:13 PM

https://codeobsession.com/news/2024/05/29/observatory-2-0-8/

#53

General Discussion / Re: Bias thumbnails in a varie...

Last post by Sander Berents - May 03, 2024, 05:05:18 AM

This has been resolved in Observatory 2.0.7. Quick Look in Observatory 2.0.7 will no longer debayer bias, dark and flat calibration frames, even if it detects a bayer pattern in the header.

#54

Announcements / Observatory 2.0.7

Last post by Sander Berents - May 03, 2024, 04:58:49 AM

https://codeobsession.com/news/2024/05/03/observatory-2-0-7/

#55

Announcements / Observatory 2.0.6

Last post by Sander Berents - April 08, 2024, 01:42:39 AM

https://codeobsession.com/news/2024/04/07/observatory-2-0-6/

#56

Announcements / Observatory 2.0.5

Last post by Sander Berents - March 25, 2024, 11:30:56 AM

https://codeobsession.com/news/2024/03/24/observatory-2-0-5/

#57

General Discussion / Re: Termination Reason: Nam...

Last post by Sander Berents - March 20, 2024, 10:11:50 PM

I cannot reproduce it. But Observatory 2.0.5 will contain two new settings that may solve the issue for you:

• The ability to disable library versioning (the Time Machine integration);
• Explicitly set the number of CPU cores to use for importing.

I am still working on a few other items before releasing it.

#58

General Discussion / Re: Termination Reason: Nam...

Last post by Tailspin45 - March 20, 2024, 12:00:14 PM

Are you actively working on the next update or should I look for another solution (Observatory is useless to me as things stand)?

#59

General Discussion / Re: Termination Reason: Nam...

Last post by Tailspin45 - March 13, 2024, 11:01:23 AM

Sounds like a plan. I look forward to the next update.

#60

General Discussion / Re: Termination Reason: Nam...

Last post by Sander Berents - March 10, 2024, 09:39:51 PM

All that seems to be Sonoma specific behavior, and document versioning related (Observatory's integrated Time machine support). I wonder if that is the underlying problem, that there is an obscure conflict going on with how Observatory handles versioning and some undocumented changes in Sonoma. I haven't touched that part of the code for years, so it is really a change in Sonoma that causes this.

The Observatory Demo has versioning disabled, but it doesn't allow saving libraries so we cannot test this theory with it.

I'll look into that and also add a few (hidden) settings to Observatory in the next update so that feature can be disabled and we can test if that "solves" it.

What's weird is that I have never seen this behavior myself on Sonoma. I have only been running Sonoma on an Apple silicon machine though, while you run it on an Intel machine. I have now upgraded one of my Intel machines to Sonoma as well, and maybe that allows me to reproduce it.