<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi all,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m a kStars/Ekos user—gave up Maxim DL for it a year ago— with my 12” LX200, SBIG STF8300M, Moonlite focuser, etc.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I was very happy with version 3.0.0, which I ran on my Macbook Air to run the above equipment. I downloaded all the <a href="http://Astrometry.net" class="">Astrometry.net</a> index files because my scope is located in a mountain location with no internet access. Plate solving was always slow the first run, then worked fine for any session.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Last week I updated to version 3.2.2. Everything works fine except: as soon as I click on “Capture & Solve” the plate solving crashes. Doesn’t just fail to solve, it crashes within one second of taking an image, and says that it “crashed.”</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I checked, the index files haven’t moved, I haven’t changed anything else except perhaps updated OS X to the latest production version (10.14.5).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Last night I tried running version 3.0.0 again—was able to restore a copy from a backup—and the plate solving did not crash. (But because I was in NYC, there weren’t enough visible stars for it to solve!!).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Has anyone else had this problem? Is this an issue you’re aware of? Is there something I can do to get plate solving to work again in 3.2.2? Do you need further info?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Many thanks,</div><div class="">stan in Brooklyn</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">PS—I just would like to say, I LOVE Ekos. It’s nice to have a platform-independent solution which continues to improve. And not be dependent on obsolete Microsoft technology.</div><div class=""><br class="">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div class="">--<br class="">Stanley Fertig<br class="">Brooklyn, New York<br class="">rqueneau<a href="mailto:stanleyf@nyc.rr.com" class="">@nyc.rr.com</a></div></span>
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