astrometry.net availabillity

I just tried a plate solve via astronmetry.net via AIJ and MaximDL.  Both failed.

Cliff

I thought I was going crazy, plate solving failed twice while using sequence generator plus and I finally realized it was them, thank you for corroborating. 

Pablo

No worries Pablo and thanks Cliff.

I should've noticed ths before:

  https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/astrometry/Rz11VZ9xldE

Looks like there's an outage and an alternative URL has to be used at the moment:

  http://nova2.astrometry.net

I'll try this in AIJ and see how it goes.

David

David,

With an image open, click the tool icon for astrometry (red cross over blue cirlce).  You will get the dialog in the attached image.  It looks like you just enable the custom server and put in the URL.  I've not tried this, so let me know how it goes.

Cliff

So it looks like there's been an account and API key change as well. My current key (via web login) is different from the one I had been successfully using.

Now with the changed URL and key, the WCS process starts but then each submission fails. Note that this is different from the login error I was previously seeing.

David

Don't you hate it when something works, but you don't understand why?

I'm using AIJ ver 3.2.1.  I opened an image and tried a plate solve without having changed to nova2.astrometry.net.  It failed as expected.  I then opened the astrometry settings dialog, enabled the custom server and entered the nova2 URL.  I did not change my key which is a year or so old.  I also enabled the log.  This failed, indicating a login error.  I disabled the custom server and, for the heck of it, tried the plate solve again.  It failed once with a timeout (no surprise), but AIJ tried it again and it succeeded.  I did verify that the coordinates were correct on this image that I had not plate solved previously.  Here is my log:

[2017-06-18T08:45:46.185]      Astrometry.net login error, exiting.
*****PLATE SOLVE FAILED*****
[2017-06-18T08:47:58.135]      Astrometry submission ID 1615275 timed out for SA32B-C14-20170615@033223-070S-B1-W-R.fts. Resubmitting.
[2017-06-18T08:48:29.609]      Astrometry job 2108820 for SA32B-C14-20170615@033223-070S-B1-W-R.fts: SOLVED
*****PLATE SOLVE FINISHED*****

Now, if I reenable the custom server I can see that the nova2 URL has been cached.  Perhaps after you enter the custom server URL, AIJ tries it if the primary URL fails even with the custom server disabled?

Now this will certainly slow things down, but perhaps this same trick will work for you.

Good luck,

Cliff
 

Okay, so this astrometry.net forum thread is active (as in today):

  https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/astrometry/A30cCLu0gN4

Definitely people seeing similar issues.

David

There was indeed a problem which now appears to be fixed. See https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/astrometry/A30cCLu0gN4

David