I did have an email conversation with Rob--he's aware of the issue.
I was just letting folks know.

It seems like EKos is sending the max dimension to StellarSolver, so it's somewhere between Ekos and StellarSolver and ASTAP.

Interestingly, ASTAP seemed 5-10% quicker without scale! Was I just lucky? I have disabled scale.

@han.k Also, FWIW, it might be interesting for ASTAP (or all the StellarSolver solvers) to have a "if the search fails, try again without scale/position with timeout" sort of backup possibility. This could be expanded to other parameters as well, if there are more. Perhaps enabled with some flag.

@han.k Finally, as I'm on the topic, does ASTAP have a star-detection interface? StellarSolver has the possibility of using ASTAP to solve location, but perhaps it could also be an alternative star detector as well?

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