knro wrote: I just checked the logs and the solver just can't get a solution after the meridian flip it keep trying and trying over with multiple timeouts. Did you happen to see the images post the meridian? were they normal? no clouds or some motion knocked the camera to different area in the sky or something like that? At any rate, capture module was trying too many times, and I just adjusted it to also fail in case of solver time out (vs solver failure).

Hi Jasim,

Unfortunately I was asleep when it did the meridian flip so I don’t know what the images looked like.

Las night though when I was having similar issues with the solver timing out the images looked like the always did. Slightly grainy but clear enough to solve from. The behaviour last night was very weird. It would skew to a target but be way off. The solver would start and the mount would get closer to the target. It would keep solving until it go close to the limit (30 arcsec), then back off where it would solve, get close but never reach the limit I set.

The other issue was that guiding was constantly failing. Calibration start, R.A. would calibrate but Dec would fail.

The suddenness of these issues makes me think it’s my mount. I have had issues in the past where the Dec would fail on guiding calibration but if I tried again it would work. Then my Total RMS would never below 1.5 - 2.

Rene

Read More...