installing indexes

[Mariana Rubet]

Hello,
Im following the instructions on the website http://astrometry.net/doc/readme.html. I downloaded the indexes and placed them in a folder called "data" in the same directory that I downloaded Astrometry. When I run "make install-indexes" on the terminal, I get an error message

  "make: *** No rule to make target 'install-indexes'. Stop"

Am I doing something wrong? Here go the screenshots

[Dustin Lang]

Hi,

To use "make install-indexes", you must be in the top-level astrometry code directory (the directory containing README.md, CREDITS, etc), and the index files must be in that same directory (not data/).

OR, If you installed the astrometry software in /usr/local/astrometry, then just copy the index* files into /usr/local/astrometry/data

cheers,

--dustin

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[Mariana Rubet]

Hi Dustin,

I'm trying to run a demo that uses indexes 203 to 205 (it's 4203 to 4205, right?) and the message appears that I need to list at least 1 index in the etc/astrometry.cfg file. I updated this file, but it looks like something is wrong. I've listed the indexes by filenames with ".fits" and without ".fits" and neither way is working

[Dustin Lang]

Hi,

In the etc/astrometry.cfg file, you'll need to edit the "add_path" line at the top -- probably to /usr/local/astrometry/data

I thought it tried to read the file /usr/local/astrometry/etc/astrometry.cfg first, though?

cheers,

--dustin

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[Mariana Rubet]

I placed the indexes on the top level astrometry code directory (path /home/dell/astrometry.net-0.85). I've edited the "add_path" line of the file /home/dell/astrometry.net-0.85/etc/astrometry.cfg but it still can't find the indexes. Here go the screenshots of the file astrometry.cfg, my top level astrometry code directory and terminal

[Dustin Lang]

Hi,

It looks like you installed the code (it's running /usr/bin/astrometry-engine), so it's going to look for the astrometry.cfg file first in /usr/etc/astrometry.cfg, then /etc/astrometry.cfg.  It's not going to look in your current directory or ./etc/astrometry.cfg, unless you tell it which config file to read, using

solve-field --config etc/astrometry.cfg

You can add the "-v" flag to solve-field to get "verbose" output, including a line like this that tells you which config file it's reading:

Solving...
Running:
  /usr/local/bin/astrometry-engine --verbose /Users/dstn/astrometry/demo/apod4.axy
Using config file "/usr/local/bin/../etc/astrometry.cfg"

cheers,

--dustin

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