PolarAlignMax: -ve declination problem?

[rogerg (Roger)]

I have used PolarAlignMax briefly in the past to measure polar alignment error. It seemed to work OK once I worked out a problem with it using a crop of the image.

Now I'm trying it again and am having the problem that none of my plate solve's are working.

I've discovered that when in -ve declination the FITS file is getting the declination stored as "--09 58 53" (for example). You can see there are two "--" characters.

I'm waiting for night to test removing one of the -ve characters by editing the file header, see if that fixes the plate solve problem.

Previously I had only used it briefly, at +ve declinations. At +ve declinations only one "+" character is stored in the declination attribute of the header.

Anyone experienced a problem like this?

I have the latest versions of all applications involved (CCDSoft, TheSky, PolarAlignMax and ASCOM).

Thanks,
Roger.

[rogerg (Roger)]

I should add that manually taking an image in CCDSoft and platesolving it does work (in the situation I was trying).