Hi,
Is it me or has something happened to all the PCC/Image Solver Script Database Servers?
The Image Solve Script (and therefore PCC?) are returning an error after downloading the Vizier data. The CDS Strasbourg Db seems to be down at the moment, so I have tried using the CASU Cambridge and CFA Harvard servers. But it makes no difference.
The problem seems to be with the Catalogue download image; "*** Error: Found too few stars in the catalog. The magnitude filter could be too strict or the catalog server could be malfunctioning".
The object is IC 443, the JellyFish Nebula and the RA and DEC are correct at RA 6 16 and DEC +22 31. The Focal Length and Pixel size are also correct at FL 429 Ps 2.41. I have also tried an image centred on B33, the Horsehead Nebula, which also doesn't work
I am running "PI-windows-x64-1.8.8-3-20191213-c", with the latest updates. I have also tried going back to "PI-windows-x64-1.8.8-20191108-c" which definitely worked before I upgraded, but doesn't work now.
Any thoughts greatly appreciated!
Cheers, Jim
Extract from the Process Console:
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PhotometricColorCalibration: Processing view: integration
Writing swap files...
250.017 MiB/s
* Using an automatically calculated limit magnitude of 14.
run -x -p="metadata_focal,429" -p="metadata_useFocal,true" -p="metadata_xpixsz,2.410000085830688" -p="metadata_ra,94.24583333333334" -p="metadata_dec,22.10666666666667" -p="metadata_epoch,2458819.440219908" -p="solver_vizierServer,http://vizier.ast.cam.ac.uk/" -p="solver_catalog,Gaia" -p="solver_magnitude,14" -p="solver_sensitivity,-1" -p="solver_noiseLayers,0" -p="solver_alignAlgorithm,0" -p="solver_distortionCorrection,false" -p="solver_distortedCorners,false" -p="solver_splineSmoothing,0.05" -p="solver_enableSimplifier,true" -p="solver_simplifierTolerance,0.25" -p="solver_simplifierRejectFraction,0.1" -p="solver_projection,0" -p="solver_catalogMode,1" -p="solver_autoMagnitude,false" -p="solver_showStars,false" -p="solver_showSimplifiedSurfaces,false" -p="solver_showDistortion,false" -p="solver_generateErrorImg,false" -p="solver_generateDistortModel,false" -p="solver_useDistortionModel,false" -p="solver_onlyOptimize,false" -p="solver_outSuffix," -p="solver_projectionOriginMode,0" -p="solver_useActive,false" -p="solver_files,C:/Users/jim/AppData/Local/Temp/PCC_T_13T3LRKP0H5Q.xisf" -p="non_interactive,true" -p="isGlobalTarget,true" -p="isViewTarget,false" "C:/Program Files/PixInsight/src/scripts/AdP/ImageSolver.js"
Processing script file: C:/Program Files/PixInsight/src/scripts/AdP/ImageSolver.js
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Processing image C:/Users/jim/AppData/Local/Temp/PCC_T_13T3LRKP0H5Q.xisf
Reading image:
C:/Users/jim/AppData/Local/Temp/PCC_T_13T3LRKP0H5Q.xisf
Loading image: w=5323 h=3570 n=3 RGB UInt16
11 image properties
335 FITS keyword(s) extracted.
Seed parameters for plate solving:
Image coordinates: RA = 06 16 59.000, Dec = +22 06 24.00
Resolution: 1.159 as/px
Starting StarAlignment iteration
Downloading Vizier data:
http://vizier.ast.cam.ac.uk/viz-bin/asu-tsv?-source=I/345/gaia2&-c=94.245833 22.106667&-c.r=2.055986&-c.u=deg&-out.form=|&-out.add=_RAJ,_DEJ&-out=pmRA&-out=pmDE&-out=Source&-out=Gmag&-out=RPmag&-out=BPmag&-out=Plx&-out=RV&-out=Rad&-out=Lum&Gmag=<14
2131 bytes transferred in 14.34 s @ 0.14 KiB/s
FOV:2.056 actual:0.000
Catalog Gaia DR2 size: 0 objects
*** Error: Found too few stars in the catalog. The magnitude filter could be too strict or the catalog server could be malfunctioning
Please check the following items:
The initial coordinates should be inside the image.
The initial resolution should be within a factor of 2 from the correct value.
Adjust the star detection sensitivity parameter, so that the script can detect most of the stars in the image without mistaking noise for stars.
The catalog should be matched to the image. Choose the appropriate catalog and magnitude filter, so that the number of stars extracted from the catalog can be similar to the number of stars detected in the image.
*** Error: Unable to plate solve the image: Alignment failed
This is usually because the initial parameters are too far from the real metadata of the image.
** Warning: Process finished with errors:
PCC_T_13T3LRKP0H5Q.xisf: The image could not be plate solved
*** Error: Failure to plate solve image: integration
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<* failed *>
