I’d love to get away from Elbrus and astometry.net, but no luck so far. I followed Andy’s instructions on ANSVR, and installed catalogs 4202 to 4207. My FOV is 22x28 arcmin. I tried to solve several of my images following Andy’s steps. It reported it was uploading to ansvr.net, but then simply came back and said “failed to platesolve image.” Any ideas? Elapsed time was 0s, if that helps. As I mentioned the other day, PlateSolve2 runs perfectly from its own .exe, but when I try to switch it on in SGP I get “Component comdlg32.ocx or one of its dependencies not correctly registered: a file is missing or invalid.”
My test images all solve in Elbrus and on astrometry.net, but Elbrus doesn’t always work in an actual imaging session, and a few times lately a.net has been down. If anyone has any ideas, please let me know!
If you post a link to an image that does not solve, I will try it on my machine. That will give us a clue about whether it is a settings issue or something else.
Oddly, you seem to be the only one having / reporting this issue so I cannot be sure. I can’t see how it would help since you can get PlateSolve2 to run by itself (which has the same dependency), but you can try this:
Open a command prompt as Admin
cd “c:\Program Files (x86)\SequenceGenerator” (or wherever you installed SGPro to)
Thanks Ken. I’ll check that out in the morning. Right now it’s imaging, and I don’t want to risk messing anything up. Finishing (hopefully) OIII on Melotte 15 tonight.
Done. Same problem though. When I click on settings I get the same error message. Great session last night, though. 4 of 5 targets with no user intervention (because the user was asleep most of that time), and only lost the 5th because of clouds.
Can you validate that, when you go to Help->Open Log Folder (not the install folder like I asked that you check in a post above), you see files named “PlateSolve2.exe” and “comdlg32.ocx”.
Well that’s a huge bummer. For now, I am officially out of ideas (and we can’t find anyone else with the issue to help establish any type of patterns).
Not to worry. With Elbrus now getting backed up by a local ANSVR, I’m fine. My much bigger problem is that I still get ASCOM disconnects from my mount. Chris can’t figure that one out either, so you’re in good company. I’ll probably move to a new laptop soon, so maybe all these problems will go away.
I’m also having a problem with comdlg32.ocx on a new (old) machine I’m setting up. PS2 runs fine from Platesolve2.exe however I get an error when I click on the setting button in SGP.
I’ll probably move to a new laptop soon, so maybe all these problems will go away.