PlateSolve2 Starting Parameters

Sequence Generator Plate Solving
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Normally, my PlateSlove2 shows “arcminutes” in the Starting Parameters. Last night, it started showing “degrees”, for some reason. It is configured everywhere (Equip Profile and Control Panel) to use arcminutes but on this target (NGC6888) is shows degrees – and the plate solving is failing. It behaves as if it is getting degrees from something in the FITS header but I don’t know what that is or how it could have gotten set to degrees:

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I can load old images from last week, or last month and plate solve them with no problem and the dialog box shows arcminutes on all those old images but every image from last night shows degrees when I load them and plate solve them. Some solve and some don’t.

Charlie

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Follow-up – never did figure this out. So, I created a new sequence file and re-entered all the target data. The new sequence file worked fine with PlateSolve2 showing arcminutes instead of degrees and the problem target then plate solved properly.

Charlie