The CachingDms error is mostly a note for us developers. It has no real consequence on the functioning of KStars. It's just a warning that some trigonometric functions are being pointlessly recomputed, which is expensive if it is happening in the innermost loop with many stars, but is a non-issue otherwise. I've made sure that it doesn't happen in star rendering, which is bulk of the trigonometry that KStars does.

The assert failure, however, is more serious -- and I do not have it on my system. Could you tell me which projection you were using? Were you using Equatorial Coordinates ("Star globe view") or Horizontal Coordinates ("Horizontal View") in the view menu? I don't see that happening on my laptop (in debug mode, the assert failure would lead to a crash, and KStars is not being very crashy on my laptop)

Regards
Akarsh

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