test 1: I set up three stars in the same quadrant well up in the sky. since the main camera wasn't focused yet the plate solver got a dark image and I stopped it, switched to the guide camera (asi120cs on a converted 8x50 finder) and started the solver again. After getting an image it almost immediately went to the next star, which was on screen, then took off for the third...then ended without the image showing the third star. Congrats! Nothing went crazy!
The whole thing took about a minute to complete, making me wonder if it actually waited for plate solving? I have the data downloaded but it reported one missing and went to get it online. This never happens fast.
Resetting for a second run before bed and a 6am start:
I focused the main camera and moved to m39 which was a near miss on main (my guider is never centered) to move off the chosen stars: Deneb, Altair, and Vega and tried again using the asi178/os6in newt @600mm ..and forgot to turn off the focus module(doh!)
As you can see( I hope)
it had more trouble solving this time... much more realistic. I noticed I also forgot to clear the previous run so it may have been influencing things. At this point it says slewing but isn't moving... I tapped west and it stopped slewing and took another shot.(pretty star). it's not moving to the next now. Aborting procedure.
I then slewed to the nearby Veil nebula and plate solved. I got the same error. no error reported but would not stop slewing, and when I stopped it, resumed solving. Weird. --it's what I do.
Looks like it works procedurally, as for the never ending slew, it doesn't happen when I do a regular slew to target so it may be related to either the platesolver or the interaction with OnStep...or my mistakes, which are good for uncovering oddities others are likely to find.
I'd like to do more but I ran out of time. Hope this helps. more below pushed down as I made notes. Gnight folks.
Noting unrelated error: when trying to save anything to disk Kstars crashes to desktop. I've seen this before and will have to narrow this down and make an issue.
side note: I used last session's speed adjustments arcsec/sec to calculate the ratio between my estimated gear ratio and the needed one and entered it when I changed the firmware. I just took a 60second photo with round stars and no adjustments from start. Woot!