I have managed to successfully setup plate solving to work using the astrometry.net offline solver (on Mac OS).

The solved images have the correct position, but the FOV shown is exactly (1/4 x 1/4) of the correct value.

If I set the search size to automatically adjust in the settings, it always fails to solve the second image, as values far too small are automatically inputted!

If I use the online solver within Ekos it also gives the wrong FOV, but the website version of astrometry reports the correct value.

I have checked that the focal length and aperture are set correctly in Ekos, although I don’t see how this could make a difference, as surely the FOV is exclusively determined by the image itself.

Is there anything I’m missing/doing wrong?

Thanks!

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