It seems that auto focus is now broken also,

I was trying to autofocus my SCT with a moonlight and was getting very poor star recognition. I then noticed that auto-focus now has an editor that brings up the stellasolver options. I reverted to a pre-stellasolver build, and autofocus with sep is working perfectly.

I hate to say this, but if I have to manage the myriad of stellarsolver options to get autofocus working then I'm off back to windows and ASCOM (sadly - i really like my Rpi4 as a capture device).

I appreciate that this is still early days, but I think that this change needs a lot more thought and work. This is on top of having a lot of issues getting solving to work with it as well.

My overall comment is that something that just worked for the most part has become way too complex and requires way too much tuning, with way too many options. Options are nice, but when something that for the most part just worked gets replaced by this, and it is this fragile, it's a real turn-off.

IMHO this should have stayed on a branch instead of being in the nightlies, or the rollout should have been much slower and more measured.

J.

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