Not working with recent Kstars about astrometry-api-lite HOT 3 OPEN

Hi @papaf76

This project is pretty dead, as the alternatives like ASTAP or locally installed astrometry.net exist - it's basically a compatibility layer, which hasn't had much use in the end. Since it's been 3 years since the last release, I can imagine a lot has changed, and Python2 -> Python3 change is also something the install should account for. The Windows installer is probably also outdated, since there's the WSL -> WSL2 change. This tool is pretty much deprecated by now.

However I'm still not going to leave anyone hanging if the amount of work is reasonable.
Can you tell me a bit more about your use case? Mainly:

• What OS are you running it on? (assuming Windows, since KStars has native astrometry.net support on Linux)
• Which version of astrometry.net are we talking about?
• Is this behavior (requiring image dimensions as parameters) a new requirement by astrometry.net, or just that the new KStars pushes these parameters to astrometry-api-lite, and it can't cope with unknown parameters?
• Is the returned field size a new feature in astrometry.net?

I'm still on the fence whether to keep supporting this project or not, as my time is limited - then again a crunch like this would at least breath some new life to it and give you and others some time to look for other options.

By the way, I'm currently working on a completely new solver that is based on the ASTAP solver algorithm, called WatneyAstrometry, which is currently in pre-release stage (first testable version available). I haven't made any noise about it yet since there are still small things I want to address, and I'll probably need to add a compatibility layer to allow using it via astrometry.net and/or ASTAP interfaces in the beginning to encourage its adoption - but the idea is simple: it is a solver that has no outside dependencies and is therefore easy to adopt, install and use and runs on Windows, Linux and OSX. It has been my pet project for the last year, which explains why I haven't paid much attention to any of my other projects ;)

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Hi Fabio,

I know it's been a very long time :) but I thought you might want to know about my project that I've just now fully released, the Watney Astrometric Solver. It's a whole new astrometric solver, based on the ASTAP algorithm. You can check it out here: https://github.com/Jusas/WatneyAstrometry

It's a C# library with both a command-line interface and a REST API, which includes Astrometry.net compatibility API. Pre-built binaries are available for Windows, Linux (arm, arm64 and x64) and OSX. I've run a few live test runs using KStars/Ekos with the compatibility API and didn't have any notable issues. This might be something interesting to try if you're still looking for options.

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