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You need to play with the settings. Increase the minimum pixel size, the noise reduction and possibly the black level until you're capturing 20 + stars and you're getting regular plate solves. Make sure your focus is good too.

Thanks Robin I'll bear it in mind.

I'm suspecting a well matched dark certainly won't do any harm.

Anyone have an answer for this, I'll be setting up in a few hours.

When using the brain function to measure sky brightness could it be thrown off by thermal noise or amp glow. Would it be advisable to use a dark frame during this procedure?

Make sure the epoch is the same in EQMOD and All Sky Plate Solver.

Thats great thanks.

...but I've just checked there's no option for adding a temperature tag. Would it be possible to add that?

Sorry scratch that, looks like you can already do it.

Sorry Robin got another one for you. I use live stacking for my traditional AP so I can filter out bad frames with the sky brightness and fwhm filters. I have save individual frames enabled, but it would be great if I had some control over naming those files or if they were named the same as the fil...