BYN /Astrotortilla Problem

[acatalano]

So I have V 2.1.0 of BYN and have successfully set it up to work with Astrotortilla,- once. I have gotten it to plate solve a few nights ago but that was then,-this is now. On the advice given here about turning off in camera and long exposure noise reduction in my D5100 I tried to use the two programs together as in the previous session. I made several other changes at the same time: I rotated the camera 90 degrees to get East/West-North/South to agree with the EQMOD control pad directions, and I removed my old Lumicon Easy Guider since I wasn't using it, and re-focused(I am using a Celestron 0.63 FF/FR instead off the one in the Lumicon OAG). (When will I learn to change one thing at a time?) I have the Premium version of BYN and the two programs are clearly communicating I can hear the shutter opening and closing when I ask AstroT  to plate solve. However I either get a Camera Error message or after restarting everything (Computer, Mount, Camera, CDC, all programs..) AStro-T does not even look through the indexes. A picture is taken and that's all. I have even set the program to re-solve but zilch happens. I have a Win10 Pro Lenovo X1 running the show and have read that the cygwin program that is installed with Astro-T is known to have issues with Win 10. Also could my lack of noise reduction come back to bite me? If I could look at the photos that are taken by the process of plate solving that would help, but where are they?

And finally is the Pre-release version of BYN that includes plate solving something I should try? Are there instructions how to install and use it? Astro-T does not appear to be supported, so this addition to BYN would be FANTASTIC ,- IMHO!

[astroman133]

The way it works is that AT asks BYN to take an image. When the image is available, AT gets the filepath to the image file and then copies the file to its directory for solving. Does the AT log file show that it received a JPG filepath and image from BYN?

[acatalano]

I had the log file open while the process was underway (although  I can't find the log file now even from within Astro-T) but I do not recall seeing a jpg or fits file go by.

[s3igell]

When you Refocused, I assume that you used the Camera.  Did you change any Camera Settings, other than simply using BYN Frame&Focus??  Anything that you might have forgotten to set back??

[acatalano]

I looked at the pictures in the pictures.BackyardNikon folder and all the file names end in exposure values that are 1-2 seconds or less, not the 10-20 seconds I use in Astro-T. Perhaps they are somewhere else? Although I hear what appears to be the shutter click, it may not be taking the picture at all. I hal check the cables.

[acatalano]

So I tried platesolving during the daytime! Here is the logfile or at least the portion up to the solving process. I see no image files when I select Goto Image under tools in Astro-T

2020-11-06 13:16:38,493 - astrotortilla - INFO - Waiting for camera
2020-11-06 13:16:38,953 - astrotortilla - INFO - Waiting for camera
2020-11-06 13:16:39,407 - astrotortilla - INFO - Waiting for camera
2020-11-06 13:16:40,092 - astrotortilla - INFO - Waiting for camera
2020-11-06 13:16:40,555 - astrotortilla - INFO - Waiting for camera
2020-11-06 13:16:41,019 - astrotortilla - INFO - Waiting for camera
2020-11-06 13:16:41,482 - astrotortilla - INFO - Waiting for camera
2020-11-06 13:16:41,940 - astrotortilla - INFO - Waiting for camera
2020-11-06 13:16:42,627 - astrotortilla - INFO - Waiting for camera
2020-11-06 13:16:43,078 - astrotortilla - INFO - Waiting for camera
2020-11-06 13:16:43,528 - astrotortilla - INFO - Waiting for camera
2020-11-06 13:16:43,980 - astrotortilla - INFO - Waiting for camera
2020-11-06 13:16:44,433 - astrotortilla - INFO - Waiting for camera
2020-11-06 13:16:45,121 - astrotortilla - INFO - Waiting for camera
2020-11-06 13:16:45,430 - astrotortilla - INFO - Reading image from camera
2020-11-06 13:16:45,644 - astrotortilla - INFO - Solving...
2020-11-06 13:16:45,650 - astrotortilla - ERROR - Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "astrotortilla\engine.pyo", line 479, in solveImage
  File "astrotortilla\solver\AstrometryNetSolver.pyo", line 183, in solve
  File "astrotortilla\solver\AstrometryNetSolver.pyo", line 91, in __execute
TypeError: not all arguments converted during string formatting

2020-11-06 13:16:45,657 - astrotortilla - INFO - No solution in 0.0s

[acatalano]

And here are the solver settings

[acatalano]

I thnk I solved the problem. It appears to be user error. In my attemps to try different setting for the solver I enetered some text in the cygwin line (the 0.05 above) which caused the Python program to hiccup and halt. My bad.

[astroman133]

Thanks for letting us know.