Series of images failing at times; advice on wait times between queries?
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Carrie Nugent
May 23, 2025, 12:15:49 PMMay 23
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Hello,
I've been querying astrometry.net on batches of images, and in the last week or so I've noticed that a series of images (~20) will time out, one after the other. If an image times out, my code waits 10 minutes before trying again, but these have all been timing out after the wait. If I re-run the images the next day, they usually process normally.
Ideally I'd like everything to be automated so I don't have to run things twice. Do you have any insight into why this is is happening, and how I might program in more delays to wait out the issue? For example, if five images fail in a row, I could ask my code to wait an hour, or five hours, but I'm not sure how long that duration should be.
Thank you for all your work on this!
Best,
Carrie
I've been querying astrometry.net on batches of images, and in the last week or so I've noticed that a series of images (~20) will time out, one after the other. If an image times out, my code waits 10 minutes before trying again, but these have all been timing out after the wait. If I re-run the images the next day, they usually process normally.
Ideally I'd like everything to be automated so I don't have to run things twice. Do you have any insight into why this is is happening, and how I might program in more delays to wait out the issue? For example, if five images fail in a row, I could ask my code to wait an hour, or five hours, but I'm not sure how long that duration should be.
Thank you for all your work on this!
Best,
Carrie
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