This is a common request, especially for SCTs where once the stars start becoming rings it likes to choose noise as stars instead. It’s frustrating that it appears that no progress has yet been made here and even more frustrating to see replies that it “should work and you must be doing something wrong.” I agree that it should work, but it doesn’t with the current state of SGP and it’s not user error. While I understand that finding an algorithm that’s smart enough to handle large out of focus stars may be problematic, SGP could easily use temperature to set a default starting point if a sensor is available and temperature training has been done. But as yet I haven’t seen that request met either. So give bmorelltx a break. He’s describing a legitimate problem that you’ll find on a number of threads here. Saying to manually adjust before you start automation kind of defeats the point of having automation!
Beo