I guess I'm not really sure. With respect to the "hot column" nothing seems amiss with your AF runs. In all 4 packs, not a single frame in any of them tried to consider any part of the hot column as a star. For this, I indicated that the minimum star size at 1x1 was 15px and 2x2 was 7.5px.
The only things that seemingly need to change are:
- Minimum star size to 15 px
- Smart focus turned ON (if you would have continued going, I suspect SGPro would have found the curve)
- Increase your step size to 9
Pack 12:
Pack 13:
Pack 14:
Pack 15: