[The_bluester (Paul)]

A good bit of a success there I think. I tried stress testing it today by blind solving the only image with any stars I managed to get last night then solving it with PS2 with bigger and bigger offsets in the initial position.

The last one I did it would solve in just over four and a half minutes with an 8 degree offset in Dec in the initial position. Five degrees solved in about two and a half minutes. Two degrees off solved in 21 seconds. If a goto is more than a couple of degrees off, a successful plate solve is the least of my troubles.

With the ye olde Celeron if the target was much more than just off the screen it timed out at 300 seconds without solving!


I meant to add before, the image download occurs a hell of a lot faster than on the old celery. That took three or so seconds and this one is around 1 second, both on USB3 ports to match the cable and camera.