Hi, Ken,
I am practicing plate solve at home to get myself more familiar with it.
I am using ANSVR as solver. PinPoint seems to work only with FITS with a bunch of headers that provide some extra info.
I loaded a JPG into SGPro.
I found that putting, say, no matter what I put in the RA/Dec hint, it had no impact on solving and I checked the ANSVR log. The json request does not contain any ra/dec information at all
The log entry looked the same however i change the ra/dec input.
I tried to put M42 (which is not the object but for the sake of testing shouldn't matter, right?) into the object field. It also had no impact on the request sent to ANSVR. In none of the cases, the request json contained center_ra, center_dec, or radius parameters. Same goes for FITS files that have good information in the header. The all looked same as the following.
[2016-06-26 17:14:24] POST /api/upload/ HTTP/1.1
[2016-06-26 17:14:24] request_json is: {"session":"79","allow_commercial_use":"d","allow_modifications":"d","publicly_visible":"y","scale_units":"arcsecperpix","scale_type":"ev","scale_est":4.9416666666666664,"scale_err":5.0}
[2016-06-26 17:14:24] UPLOAD: session is 79
[2016-06-26 17:14:24] upload type is: FITS
[2016-06-26 17:14:25] POST /api/submissions/79 HTTP/1.1
[2016-06-26 17:14:24] forcing scale_err to 5 (was 5)
scale_args: -u arcsecperpix -L 4.69458333333333 -H 5.18875
UPLOAD: /opt/ansvr/run_solver 480 /usr/bin/solve-field -p -O -U none -B none -R none -M none -N none -C cancel --crpix-center -z 2 -u arcsecperpix -L 4.69458333333333 -H 5.18875 stars.fit
Using timeout = 480
exec /usr/bin/solve-field -p -O -U none -B none -R none -M none -N none -C cancel --crpix-center -z 2 -u arcsecperpix -L 4.69458333333333 -H 5.18875 stars.fit
Reading input file 1 of 1: "stars.fit"...