ASTAP solver menu improvement

[Han K]

Nina allows currently four settings for ASTAP. See screenshot. Suggest to remove setting “Maximum object”. It could also be replaced by a more used setting "Ignore star size less then ["]=1.5. This is a setting to ignore hot pixels. The command line option is then "-m 1.5" But just three settings is fine. In rare cases they could be set in ASTAP directly:

See ASTAP documentation: http://www.hnsky.org/astap.htm#astap_command_line

Han

author of ASTAP.

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[Han K]

I like to suggest an other change. ASTAP development version 0.9.389 (file version 0938 or higher) has a -debug option.

Download development version:

http://www.hnsky.org/astap_setup.exe

The debug option allows to set some solving parameters in the GUI (graphical user interface) and to test the commandline. In debug mode all commandline parameters are set and the specified image is shown in the viewer. Only the solve command has to be given manually:

astap.exe -f c:\images\image.png -ra 23.000 -spd 179.000 -r 30 -debug

or

astap.exe -debug

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That last option could be used to access some additional solver options. Calling ASTAP could be done by a small button (advanced options) in the solver menu. Preferable with the current image and setting as parameter just like a normal solve command but with -debug added.

The ASTAP settings menu will look like this:

For generic commandline info look at:

http://www.hnsky.org/astap.htm#astap_command_line

[Han K]

Some additional thoughts:

The two commandline options

astap.exe -debug

astap.exe -f c:\images\image.fits -z 0 -r 30 -debug

The disadvantage of the last option is that it will generate a solve using an older ASTAP version. So for the moment the commandline:

astap.exe -debug

is probably the best option This will work both with the old and new versions of ASTAP. An other option is to use the full commandline and add a text message for version 0.9.389 or higher only. Or detect the ASTAP file version (0938 or higher) and adapt the commandline accordingly.

Most users will never use this option so you could consider not to implement this feature request.

Regards, Han

[Stefan B]

Duplicate of #1087.