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Capture stopped after meridian flip

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Hi,
I'm using Ekos and Indi on a raspberry PI4 with astroberry.
I use PHD2 for guiding.

All is OK when I use the meridian flip :
- The capture is stopping
- Guiding is stopping
- The mount go to the good position
- Astrometry is OK
- PHD2 do a good calibration and begin again
- The capture begin again

BUT after about 30 seconds, the capture stop with a message that indicate that guiding has stopped.
This is a wrong message because guiding is OK and go on normally.

I have just to begin manually the capture and it's OK.It's really embarrassing because if I'm not here, there are no captures.
Do you know why I have this problem ?
I put the log of Kstars : the meridian flip has begin at 19:39:52 and the problem was at 19:49:44

Thank you by advance
Vincent
2 years 4 months ago #77524
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I have always the same problem every night.

Visibly, Ekos think that PHD2 is OK and begin the capture.
There is a message which indicate that "Autoguiding stopped" and just after an other message which indicate that autoguiding begin.

According to you, do you know if the parameter "Guiding settle" should resolve my problem ?
For example, if I put it with the value of 60 seconds, do you know if Ekos will start capture 60s after the OK of PHD2 ?

[2021-11-23T00:54:46.167 CET INFO ][     org.kde.kstars.ekos.guide] - "PHD2: Exposure Time set to: 4.00"
[2021-11-23T00:54:46.173 CET INFO ][     org.kde.kstars.ekos.guide] - "PHD2: DEC Guide Mode is Set to: Auto"
[2021-11-23T00:54:51.407 CET INFO ][     org.kde.kstars.ekos.guide] - "Guidage automatique démarré."
[2021-11-23T00:54:51.449 CET INFO ][   org.kde.kstars.ekos.capture] - "Post meridian flip calibration completed successfully."
[2021-11-23T00:54:51.517 CET INFO ][   org.kde.kstars.ekos.capture] - "Capturing 120,000-second  image..."
[2021-11-23T00:54:51.575 CET DEBG ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - ZWO CCD ASI2600MC Pro : "[DEBUG] StartExposure->setexp : 120.000s "
[2021-11-23T00:54:51.576 CET INFO ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - ZWO CCD ASI2600MC Pro :  "[INFO] Taking a 120 seconds frame... "
[2021-11-23T00:55:33.531 CET INFO ][     org.kde.kstars.ekos.guide] - "PHD2: Settling failed (timed-out waiting for guider to settle)."
[2021-11-23T00:55:33.539 CET INFO ][     org.kde.kstars.ekos.guide] - "PHD2: Settling failed, aborted."
[2021-11-23T00:55:33.547 CET INFO ][   org.kde.kstars.ekos.capture] - "Autoguiding stopped. Aborting..."
[2021-11-23T00:55:33.552 CET INFO ][   org.kde.kstars.ekos.capture] - "CCD capture aborted"
[2021-11-23T00:55:33.564 CET INFO ][     org.kde.kstars.ekos.guide] - "Autoguiding aborted."
[2021-11-23T00:55:33.569 CET DEBG ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - ZWO CCD ASI2600MC Pro : "[DEBUG] Aborting camera exposure... "
[2021-11-23T00:55:33.603 CET INFO ][     org.kde.kstars.ekos.guide] - "Guidage automatique démarré."


 
2 years 4 months ago #78017

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Hi Vincent,
reading the log further shows that guiding recovers and EKOS continues capturing. So everything should be fine except for this hickup.

could you please post the PHD2 logs? I do not understand where this timeout comes from.

And, as I just saw, the log you posted first is different to the situation that in the copied log part in your post. Please post this log as well.

HTH
Wolfgang
Last edit: 2 years 3 months ago by Wolfgang Reissenberger.
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