I’m glad to be of help. The other place where I have experienced a KStars crash is in the alignment module. I can appreciate that this module is very demanding on resources so a crash here is not necessarily related to the module itself, but if KStars has maxed out the RAM allocation and then you try to run Alignment then you could get into trouble. The other night when this was about to happen I noticed that the RAM allocation was at 3000 MB. I had been doing quite a bit of imaging, and as is my habit, closing the FITS Viewer window, plus aligning at several points. So I am not sure exactly sure what caused the crash, just that I was using the Alignment module when it happened. I will devise another experiment using the simulator to see if I can replicate the issue with the Alignment module by itself.

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