Error Message Platesolving when Framing

[Elizabeth Prochnow]

I am trying to use PinPoint for platesolving. Under Options/Platesolving, I’ve entered the information needed for PinPoint, including the API key used for Astrometry.net. Separately, I’ve tested platesolving using the PinPoint app and was successful. To test using PinPoint in NINA, I went to Framing, loaded an image, then selected plate solve and got the error message in the screenshot attached. When I used the blind solve option using astrometry.net, I was able to platesolve the image. I want to be able to use PinPoint when I have either a very slow or no internet connection, and I’m thinking that this is either a bug or I’ve set up the parameters incorrectly.

[Elizabeth Prochnow]

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[Dale Ghent]

Elizabeth, make sure you have installed the PinPoint 64bit add-on. NINA is a 64bit application and thus requires the optional 64bit add-on for PinPoint to be installed.

[Elizabeth Prochnow]

Ok, I’ve loaded the 64 bit add-on for PinPoint. Now I don’t get an error message, but it’s still not working. After selecting the image to load, if I blind solve, the image loads with the platesolving done. If I select platesolve, the image never loads.

[Elizabeth Prochnow]

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[Elizabeth Prochnow]

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[Elizabeth Prochnow]

I am now getting the message above.

[Elizabeth Prochnow]

The NINA log shows: 2024-06-04T19:18:39.1306|INFO|FramingAssistantVM.cs|LoadImage|1072|Loading image from source FILE with field of view 1° for coordinates RA: 00:00:00; Dec: 00° 00' 00"; Epoch: J2000
2024-06-04T19:18:56.2191|INFO|ImageSolver.cs|Solve|41|Platesolving with parameters: FocalLength: 1961 PixelSize: 2.4 SearchRadius: 30 BlindFailoverEnabled: False Regions: 5000 DownSampleFactor: 0 MaxObjects: 500 Reference Coordinates RA: 11:15:46 Dec: 42° 58' 17" Epoch: J2000
2024-06-04T19:18:56.8169|INFO|BaseImageData.cs|FinalizeSave|157|Finalize image and moving it to C:\Users\PrimaLuceLab\AppData\Local\NINA\PlateSolver\fjc3afah.qs3.fits
2024-06-04T19:18:59.5931|INFO|ImageSolver.cs|Solve|56|Platesolve failed
2024-06-04T19:18:59.5940|ERROR|FramingAssistantVM.cs|LoadImage|1156|Failed to load image from source FILE with field of view 1° for coordinates RA: 00:00:00; Dec: 00° 00' 00"; Epoch: J2000.
System.Exception: Platesolve failed to retrieve coordinates for image
at NINA.ViewModel.FramingAssistant.FramingAssistantVM.PlateSolveSkySurvey(FileSkySurveyImage skySurveyImage) in C:\Projects\nina\NINA\ViewModel\FramingAssistant\FramingAssistantVM.cs:line 1238
at NINA.ViewModel.FramingAssistant.FramingAssistantVM.LoadImage() in C:\Projects\nina\NINA\ViewModel\FramingAssistant\FramingAssistantVM.cs:line 1120

[Elizabeth Prochnow]

I tried changing a few more settings today, and continued to be able to platesolve in PinPoint but not in NINA with the same settings (expanded area to 60%). I did notice that the reference catalogue is identified slightly differently in NINA versus Pinpoint. Seen screenshot attached. Could this be the issue? Several of the reference catalogue names differ from those in PinPoint.

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[Elizabeth Prochnow]

Well after several nights of issues while at the WesTex star party in Ft. Davis, Texas, I am back in Houston. Platesolving using PinPoint worked like a charm for two targets. I am wondering if the issue was somehow related to the very slow internet, although I chose PinPoint as my local platesolver. As the problem isn’t recurring, this issue can be closed.

[Marc Blank]

In your post on the 4th, your log shows coordinates of 0/0 - in other words, plate solve had no idea where you were pointing.