Been trying out the latest betas and generally I have been pleased. Using v279 I came across an interesting problem. I had set SGP to center on my target (Crescent nebula) when the sequence starts using an image I previously uploaded to Astrobin as the reference. Initially everything looked OK - the process started, image taken, first slew was executed. Place solve worked after a while and the object was a good distance away (many minutes). The second attempt then started, but this time PlateSolve2 never completed (even though I could see that the nebula was centered fairly well). It just kept trying more and more regions, spiraling out way too far. Then the real strange thing happened - before the first solve completed another PlateSsolve2 dialog opened and the solve process started again! After a long while I cancelled both - the first (or maybe the second - not sure) claimed to have successfully solved.
Since I was watching the process (the telescope was not opening autonomously) I manually centered the DSO and did get my images. But this problem is weird. The next evening, I tried to solve the Crescent once more after manually getting it really close. PlateSolve2 again failed to end.
I’ve attached the pertinent log file.sg_logfile_20191001202535.zip (163.5 KB)