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Hello Tez, I checked the version on the web and it is 4.0.0u. Can you retry and check if you execute the last version? File date is 2018-9-20 Before you do that, I found twist in the APT communication and decided to change the angles. I discussed it with Ivo and the next ß version of APT should be f...

The plate solver in ASTAP version 0.9.114 just released can do blind plate solving. Om my system is achieves a full sky scan in about 380 seconds. This means that blind solving should in most case have result in half of the time is190 seconds of better depending on the offset. Not bad for a brute fo...

Note that the position angle of the frames in HNSKY version 4.0.0u have been changed. The angle is now confirm the PA used for deep sky objects. Also the frames are now a single line in the supplement. A server search will report the center position. Han A sketch made for APT communication: APT-HNSK...

With version 0.9.110 all problems should be solved.

Clear skies, Han

I'm not happy with the current performance. The program is currently too slow while measuring correctly the HFD values. I'm working on it but for the time being you could download the old version 0.9.104 from:

https://sourceforge.net/projects/astap-program/files/

Clear skies, Han

Hello Tez, The delete command is not efficient. It searches in supplement 2 from the beginning to the end for the frame name. The only way to speed up is to keep supplement 2 small/empty. Remove any redundant information from supplement 2. APT retrieves the information from HNSKY using the GET_TARGE...

Hello Tez, I have added a new DELETE_FRAME command in HNSKY version 4.0.0t (Windows). E.g.: delete_frame frame7 This will delete the frame with name frame7. The program will search for the frame7 and remove it from supplement 2. For you second request. I did not fully understand it, but I think you ...

I am drawing frame using ADD_FRAME command. But when I want to draw a new frame I can not delete frame from application Request to add CLEAR_FRAME command Hello Tez, Use the SET_FRAME command. This will show only one frame. Any new SET_FRAME command will just move the existing frame around. I will ...

To all ASTAP users, ASTAP version 0.9.107 has just been released. This is a major release. The routines around the solver engine have been heavily modified. For the plate solver/ astrometric stacking it is no longer required to enter a magnitude range range. The program will extract automatically su...

I still like to solve the problem

Han