Hi Steve,

This is probably a strange enough circumstance to not be bothered solving, but I thought you might like to know it can happen.

When I was setting up a plan and using an existing FITS to plate solve and set the FOV orientation to match, I then did something you probably didn't expect. I took this the FOV indicator and manually tweaked it a little (deviating from what the plate solve had done). Everything looked good until I went to exit EZ-Guide and what it did was undo my tweak and restore it to match the plate solved FOV.

My expectations was it would honor my final positioning of the FOV but it doesn't.

Admittedly, if I wanted to use a different FOV than my prior image, why bother doing a FITS solve? Good question. I didn't start out planning to do it but when I saw how it was plate solved, I reconsidered how I wanted to shoot it and so I tweaked it. Anyway, that's my explanation! :-)

Thanks,
Jonathan

Jonathan,

If you'll read the popup after the plate solve, it is telling you to center the guide star. That's because it is finished with positioning the target. It does the same thing with the normal positioning mode, you only have one chance to set the position. When plate solving, the plate solve simply replaces the manual positioning step.