Nothing here yet... if you have questions about the software or would like to contribute feel free to open an issue or a pull request!
If you are serious about contributing, best is to fork the code on github into your own project
PiFinder needs 3.9 or 3.10 python with a working pip
pip install -r requirements.txt
pip install -r requirements_dev.txt
Download the hipparcos catalog, change the download location.
wget -O /home/pifinder/PiFinder/astro_data/hip_main.dat https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/I/239/hip_main.dat
cd python/PiFinder
git clone https://github.com/esa/tetra3.git
Run the following command from the ./python folder
python3 -m PiFinder.main -fh -k server --camera debug -x
You can enable debug information by passing the '-x' flag
When crashing, there are many unrelated stack traces, search for the relevant one, the rest are the other threads stopping.