Bug 426616

My dreaded astrometry plate-solving problem has returned—Astrometry crashes immediately.

I’ve re-installed everything to no avail.

My setup is the following:

-2014 MacBook Air
-Mohave OS (10.14.6)—had to downgrade because SBIG has problems in Catalina.
-I have Python 3.8.5 installed (using the Python installer, not through kStars)
-kStars v3.4.3
-I followed your last Astrometry install procedure in Terminal from our last go-round (brew install astronomy-net)
-So after tracking an object in kStars (simulators) I get the following message despite having already installed home-brew & Python 3 and the above:
	"Astrometry.net uses python3 and the astropy package for plate solving images offline. These were not detected on your system. Please go into the Align Options and either click the setup button to install them or uncheck the default button and enter the path to python3 on your system and manually install astropy.”

-OK.  So when I click on the “Setup” button in the Astrometry.net settings in kStars, I get 3 successive messages:
	1.  This installer will install the following requirements for astrometry.net if they are not installed:
Homebrew -an OS X Unix Program Package Manager
Python3 -A Powerful Scripting Language 
Astropy -Python Modules for Astronomy 
Do you wish to continue?"

	2.  And after I click on “Yes” I get this second message:  "Homebrew installed
Python3 installed 
Astropy will install when you click Ok 
(Note: this might take a few minutes, please be patient.)”


	3.  And after clicking on “OK” I get this:  “Astropy Install Failure”

And it will not solve.  If I repeat the above exercise, I get the exact same results.

I’m really sorry to bother you again.  Also downloaded and tried ASTAP but that wouldn’t solve either.

Any advice?

Many thanks,
Stan in Brooklyn