Regarding the plate solve limits…I don’t normally have any issue with plate solving but last night out of curiosity, I decided to try and lower the default from 50 pixels to 20, mainly because when I carry out an automated slew, the plate solve dialogue does not show me how close I am in terms of pixels…I.e…because it’s within the 50 pixel limit…plate solve just works.
However, because… (I assume) …I lowered the default 50 pixels to 20 pixels…plate solving time soared…on returning back to the default 50 pixels it resumed its normal behaviour?
Is it reasonable to conclude that this change could have had the observed impact on plate solve time?
Sure !! It takes many more tries to get it within your limit of 20 pixels. Mine is set to 50 , with 20 tries maximum. I think there was a request to show the final number of pixels longer when it solves from an automated slew, it does show it BUT if you ain’t sitting there watching it just flashes so quick you can easily miss the final number.
A slight misunderstanding Dennis, It’s not that it took more attempts, it simply failed to plate solve within a reasonable time! Such was the length of time that I eventually aborted!
But I do take on board your point that the result when it is successful flashes so quickly that you don’t see what it has solved too…
I guess I’ll have to look at the logs as Ken suggests.
This is not available right now. We might add it, but honestly this is stuff that is designed to be automated, not watched. If you need to view results from the centering routine, running it manually will not close the dialog.