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Time For a More Robust Plate Solve Solution? AstroBin Platform open discussions community forum · Steven Zuhoski · ... · 5 · 141 · 1

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On occasion, I run into issues with AstroBin's plate solving routine. Either the image will not solve or gets caught up in an endless loop with no "off-switch".  When I test the image on Astrometry.net, PI, ASTAP, & PlateSolve3.8, it easily solves. Today's issue is the endless loop problem. I have tried to restart the solver from the edit menu several times, following the suggestions in the FAQ's to resolve the issues. The plate solver does not appear to reset and restart. 

I am looking for a more robust solution or method to avoid intermittent problems. 

Here's the current status. 
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241 images in the queue size is not normal, it might signal that the PixInsight instance got stuck. I'll look into it now. But I don't understand why you're restarting it if tells you that it's pending and there are 241 images ahead of you in the queue smile
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After a few hours of the spinning wheel, I wanted to start fresh. I did not see the Plate-solving information menu until later.
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Confirmed that the PixInsight instance server got stuck. I'll look into a way to detect that to automatically restart it, but in the meanwhile I set an email notification for me when the PixInsight queue gets too large, so I can take a look early without a too sever impact.

I know that there are a couple of issues external to AstroBin that cause occasional disruptions with plate-solving:

 - astrometry.net fails 1-2 times a year, Dustin Lang mentions they run out of disk space smile
 - again a couple times a year, PixInsight on AstroBin crashes. I'm suppose to update to the latest, I've got the task in my queue, which according to Juan Conejero of PixInsight improves stability, tho a couple of crashes a year after solving several tens of thousands of images without a reboot is probably not too bad

Thanks for reporting this one issue!
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Thank you Salvatore!

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…or to a more gentle star treatment from our part? My personal experience is that plate solving struggles when submitted images are nearly starless smile
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