Hi all,

I started using Astroberry with an earlier version and plate solving worked most of the time.

After a longer period without Astroberry I came back now to use Astroberry 2.0.3 with my mobile equipment, a Star Adventurer Mount with Canon EOS 6D, some Samyang lenses and a ZWO ASI 120 MC for 1-axis guiding.

I am not able to get the solver running again. I updated with "sudo apt-get update" and "sudo apt-get upgrade" to KStars 3.6.0 Stable and checked all of my settings, but I am still not able to solve any image. I turned on logging and in the previous version of Kstars the log told me how many stars have been found, which scale is used, which profile is use, etc. and then it said "Solver was aborted, timed out, or failed, so no solution was found". In the new version of Kstars it says only that solving fails, constantly mixing up English and German.

Unfortunately the clouds are back in the German sky now, so I am only able to try my debugging with stored fits test images of the Pleiades. I am not sure if a 3min sub is good for solving, but as I remember it should work. If I copy an image to my desktop, convert it to jpeg and upload it to astrometry, it is instantly solved.

I am using a 135mm lens and the calculated FOV is 919.7' x 613.1', that should be ok. I downloaded all required and recommended files for the solver and some more. I tried every solving profile, but nothing works. I am really desperate, because I do not now what I am doing wrong...

Does anyone has a hint?

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