I don't understand most of these improvements, but clearly you guys have been busy so thank you! I like the new column defect tool. Works nicely!
One thing though, why is it now trying to platesolve the images? I just did a simple test run and it got stuck as it couldn't get a solution. Usually I do that manually to do a PCC. I assume it's not trying to PCC in WBPP, so why does it need to include a platesolve step? When it got stuck I entered the correct pixel size and focal length but it still couldn't platesolve so I just had to hit 'cancel'
I also found in the log that platesolving of reference frame failed but it did not stop for manual correction and just continued.
After some troubleshooting I found that silly "ASIAIR" logged wrong focal length in the raw files FIT headers.
Does this failure to platesolve affect master light quality at the end?
BTW, PCC solved that very same raw image without any issues.
[2022-09-10 15:05:31] 350 putative star pair matches.
[2022-09-10 15:05:31] Performing RANSAC: done
[2022-09-10 15:05:31] *** Error: Unable to find an initial set of putative star pair matches.
[2022-09-10 15:05:31] <* failed *>
[2022-09-10 15:05:31] *** Error: The image could not be aligned with the reference star field.
[2022-09-10 15:05:31] <html>Please check the following items:<ul><li>The initial coordinates should be inside the image.</li><li>The initial resolution should be within a factor of 2 from the correct value.</li><li>Adjust the star detection sensitivity parameter, so that the script can detect most of the stars in the image without mistaking noise for stars.</li><li>The catalog should be matched to the image. Choose the appropriate catalog and magnitude filter, so that the number of stars extracted from the catalog can be similar to the number of stars detected in the image.</li></ul>
[2022-09-10 15:05:31] *** Error: Unable to plate solve image: Alignment failed.
[2022-09-10 15:05:31] This usually happens because the initial parameters are too far from the actual metadata of the image.
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[2022-09-10 15:05:31] * End platesolving reference frames
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