Perfect Plate solving every time

[AndrewJ]

One more question
I have it running on my main PC but wanted to install on a remote 32bit XPPro SP3 PC that isnt on the net.
I can install Platesolver, but it wants to connect to the net to load CygWin and astrometry.net.
Digging around for these shows there are a myriad different configurations of "build your own", and you have to use an older ver of Cygwin, as the latest doesnt support XP.
Is there a simple standalone exe that can be run to load cygwin and Astrometry.net such that platesolver will be happy on an XP box?????

Andrew

PS I know it can be done as i just used a usb wifi dongle to install it, but would prefer a simple exe for recovery later ( if reqd )

[sil (Steve)]

Ken

Thanks for the find! PS is a bugbear for me hope this solves my issues.


AndrewJ

Now its installed try copying the installation folder to a usb drive, plug it into another machine and see if it runs fine there. Many apps don't really need to be "installed" just give it a try and find out for yourself. If it works you just need to zip up the folder as a backup so you dont have to panic about "recover later".

[Merlin66 (Ken)]

Sorry guys,
You're asking questions I can't answer...
I have ASPS installed on the observatory PC (Win7) and the office PC (win10)
No issues no drama.

[AndrewJ]

Gday Sil

If it were that simple
Cygwin requires an installer, and XP support stopped a few months back, so you need the right one.
Astrometry.net appears to build a unix app based on conditions and then installs it, but there are files spread all over the place, and no idea what dlls etc it loads/registers.
Other than that, it loads and runs well on the XP box.
I had to download the 2GB index before it would work on my closeup of the Jewel box, but it found it in about 90secs.
I see you can give it approx RA/DEC coords to speed it up from the command line calls, but not sure how to do that via the GUI yet.

Andrew

[sil (Steve)]

Finally got the chance to try it out. Works ok but not perfect (does fail on several images where using nova.astrometry works.) Still a handy app to have but not salvation for me unfortunately.

[Merlin66 (Ken)]

Sil,
Hmmm
I'd be interested to see the "unsolved " image.

[sil (Steve)]

was an old one done with an old lens. horribly distorted stars ugly image but works fine with my more recent ones.