For the past six months I have been able to copy a URL from an Astro Bin image to the centering module and almost always without failure it loaded the RA and Dec coordinates, and orientation angle into the module so I could use it as a target. The past couple of weeks, however, it almost always fails. A message comes up saying that the host failed to plate solve the image so it cannot be loaded. Has anyone else had this problem and might anyone know how to solve it?
Thanks.
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Yes. It may have something to do with Astrometry.net having issues according to what I have heard.
Followup: Astrobin and Astrometry.net have verified that my image was platesolved. However, using the URL in SGP fails! Claims the image is NOT platesolved. One thing I noticed - which probably has nothing to do with the issue - is that Astrobin is now id-ing the images with alpha characters whereas in the past they have been numeric only.
Can you provide a sample URL for Astrobin that is failing?
I went to the site this morning and this is the first one I tried. It did not solve.
Sorry, here is the URL.
[Grande dentelle du Cygne (NGC 6992 et 6995) - Sadr Espagne ( Julien Bourdette ) - AstroBin]
Astrobin is returning no data in response to SGPro’s queries. I have submitted a help ticket to Astrobin. I’ll update here with status.
Salvatore from AstroBin has restored this functionality (was temporarily broken). Should be working again.
Thanks Ken - seems to be working again. Just need the clouds to move out so that I can image again 
Thanks for your help Ken. Much appreciated.
Pat
Sorry for resurrecting this old thread, but since last night I am not able to populate sequence coordinates from plate solved images in Astrobin. I asked Salvatore about it earlier this evening and he just replied advising that he hasn’t made any changes to the Astrobin API and to check here. So is anyone else experiencing this issue, or have any knowledge about it? FYI I’m still running SGP 2.6.
Thanks in advance, Geof
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I cannot download any URL into a target either. This was working a few days ago. I am running the most current version (3.1.0.457).
Phew, at least it’s not just me… 
The ability to download a URL into a target in SGP still appears to be not working. I have tried it several times with different URL’s and they all failed. A message comes up saying the location data is invalid.
05/04/2020
Not working here either. Something has changed at Astrobin I believe, because I’m sure this feature was working in the latest build of SGP (457).
Just happened across this thread after I posted the same issue. Seems like its an astrobin problem. FYI links from telescopius.com do work.
Jeff