I’ve been using SGP’s plate solving and it has worked great for me. I have Pinpoint setup as my main plate solve and all the other settings set. Over the weekend, I was successfully able to slew and plate solve to center M101. Last night, however, I was getting an error which I have no clue how to fix. If someone can help, that’d be great!
The error occurs when the plate solving window appears. In step 1, the reference frame is solved. In step 2, this is the message:
Plate solve and Sync to Camera Frame
Failed! Failed to solve scope frame
Solve Failed! No matching stars found.
Check your estimated center-point RA/DEC, and your image scaling and…
Are you using boot camp for windows or some type of fusion product? SGP is windows only.
I’ve noticed pinpoint isn’t good on my first try but usually works after the first sync. I have a local astrometry.net server that handles the failover.
I don’t know why I listed my OS as a Mac when I was using my windows 7 netbook. The weird thing is that just several days earlier, plate solving was working just fine. In one instance, I did get the same error but I simply re-ran the plate solving or that I didn’t slew to the target with SGP. I made sure to apply the same solution this time around but it did not work.
I should mentioned that I did get an email from Pinpoint about my license expiring. Could that we why?