Hi Wolfgang - sorry to confuse you by being another Ron :)

I have been using your settings for a while, having seen them in another thread. I have yet to encounter clouds sufficient to trigger a job abort / restart, just lots of capture aborts due to guide deviation. Including last night.

Last night I ran into another issue - when I woke up to check on things, the scheduler was stopped, no guiding was going on and the last note in the scheduler was that the meridian flip was successful. Looking at the part of the log just prior to the flip, it turns out that capture was already suspended due to guide deviation, so (apparently) once the flip completed the scheduler simply suspended itself(?). Is this the expected behavior? Is there any way around it, other than being awake at the right time?

In the part of the log below, the entries starting at 02:23 are from when I woke up and manually stopped then restarted the scheduler.

[2021-08-22T01:34:05.190 EDT INFO ][   org.kde.kstars.ekos.capture] - "Guiding deviation 3.110 exceeded limit value of 2.5 arcsecs, suspending exposure and waiting for guider up to 60.000 seconds."
[2021-08-22T01:34:05.220 EDT INFO ][   org.kde.kstars.ekos.capture] - "CCD capture suspended"
[2021-08-22T01:34:05.259 EDT DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.scheduler] - Capture State "Suspended"
[2021-08-22T01:34:05.505 EDT DEBG ][     org.kde.kstars.ekos.mount] - Meridian flip planned with LST= "21h 59m 28s"  scope RA= "21h 51m 28s"  ha= 0.133496 , meridian diff= 0.133333 , hrstoFlip= -0.000162427 , flipDelayHrs= 0 ,  "Pier Side: West (pointing East)"
[2021-08-22T01:34:05.505 EDT DEBG ][     org.kde.kstars.ekos.mount] - Setting meridian flip status to  "FLIP_PLANNED"
[2021-08-22T01:34:05.505 EDT DEBG ][     org.kde.kstars.ekos.mount] - meridianFlipStatusChanged  "FLIP_PLANNED"
[2021-08-22T01:34:05.506 EDT DEBG ][     org.kde.kstars.ekos.mount] - Received capture meridianFlipStatusChange  "FLIP_WAITING"
[2021-08-22T01:34:05.506 EDT DEBG ][     org.kde.kstars.ekos.mount] - meridianFlipStatusChanged  "FLIP_WAITING"
[2021-08-22T01:34:05.506 EDT INFO ][     org.kde.kstars.ekos.mount] - "Meridian flip waiting."
[2021-08-22T01:34:05.766 EDT INFO ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - QHY CCD QHY183C-89efd84 :  "[INFO] Exposure aborted. "
[2021-08-22T01:34:08.361 EDT DEBG ][     org.kde.kstars.ekos.mount] - Received capture meridianFlipStatusChange  "FLIP_ACCEPTED"
[2021-08-22T01:34:08.361 EDT DEBG ][     org.kde.kstars.ekos.mount] - meridianFlipStatusChanged  "FLIP_ACCEPTED"
[2021-08-22T01:34:08.529 EDT INFO ][     org.kde.kstars.ekos.mount] - Meridian flip: slewing to RA= "21h 51m 21s" DEC= " 47° 26' 49\""  Hour Angle  "00h 00m 33s"
[2021-08-22T01:34:08.529 EDT DEBG ][     org.kde.kstars.ekos.mount] - Setting meridian flip status to  "FLIP_RUNNING"
[2021-08-22T01:34:08.529 EDT DEBG ][     org.kde.kstars.ekos.mount] - meridianFlipStatusChanged  "FLIP_RUNNING"
[2021-08-22T01:34:08.530 EDT INFO ][     org.kde.kstars.ekos.mount] - "Meridian flip started."
[2021-08-22T01:34:08.564 EDT DEBG ][     org.kde.kstars.ekos.mount] - Slewing to RA= "21h 51m 21s" DEC= " 47° 26' 49\""
[2021-08-22T01:34:08.564 EDT DEBG ][     org.kde.kstars.ekos.mount] - Initial HA  0.136151 , flipDelayHrs  0 MFStatus  "FLIP_RUNNING"
[2021-08-22T01:34:08.585 EDT INFO ][     org.kde.kstars.ekos.guide] - "Mount is slewing. Aborting guide..."
[2021-08-22T01:34:08.592 EDT INFO ][     org.kde.kstars.ekos.mount] - "Meridian flip slew started..."
[2021-08-22T01:34:08.600 EDT DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.scheduler] - Capture State "Meridian Flip"
[2021-08-22T01:34:08.600 EDT DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.scheduler] - Mount State changed to 2
[2021-08-22T01:34:08.736 EDT INFO ][     org.kde.kstars.ekos.guide] - "PHD2: Guiding Stopped."
[2021-08-22T01:34:08.759 EDT INFO ][     org.kde.kstars.ekos.guide] - "Autoguiding aborted."
[2021-08-22T01:34:08.766 EDT DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.scheduler] - Guide State "Aborted"
[2021-08-22T01:34:09.471 EDT INFO ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - iOptron CEM25 :  "[INFO] Slewing to RA: 21:51:21 - DEC: 47:26:49 "
[2021-08-22T01:34:09.535 EDT INFO ][     org.kde.kstars.ekos.guide] - "PHD2: Guiding started."
[2021-08-22T01:34:09.571 EDT INFO ][     org.kde.kstars.ekos.guide] - "Autoguiding started."
[2021-08-22T01:34:09.624 EDT DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.scheduler] - Guide State "Guiding"
[2021-08-22T01:34:11.667 EDT INFO ][     org.kde.kstars.ekos.guide] - "PHD2: Guiding Stopped."
[2021-08-22T01:34:11.690 EDT INFO ][     org.kde.kstars.ekos.guide] - "Autoguiding aborted."
[2021-08-22T01:34:11.696 EDT DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.scheduler] - Guide State "Aborted"
[2021-08-22T01:34:11.729 EDT INFO ][     org.kde.kstars.ekos.guide] - "PHD2: Lock Position Lost."
[2021-08-22T01:34:12.526 EDT INFO ][     org.kde.kstars.ekos.guide] - "PHD2: Guiding Stopped."
[2021-08-22T01:34:12.533 EDT DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.scheduler] - Guide State "Aborted"
[2021-08-22T01:34:40.565 EDT INFO ][           org.kde.kstars.indi] - iOptron CEM25 :  "[INFO] Slew complete, tracking... "
[2021-08-22T01:34:41.529 EDT DEBG ][     org.kde.kstars.ekos.mount] - Mount status changed from  "Slewing"  to  "Tracking"
[2021-08-22T01:34:41.529 EDT DEBG ][     org.kde.kstars.ekos.mount] - Slew finished, MFStatus  "FLIP_RUNNING"
[2021-08-22T01:34:41.557 EDT INFO ][     org.kde.kstars.ekos.mount] - "Meridian flip completed OK."
[2021-08-22T01:34:41.569 EDT DEBG ][     org.kde.kstars.ekos.mount] - Setting meridian flip status to  "FLIP_COMPLETED"
[2021-08-22T01:34:41.569 EDT DEBG ][     org.kde.kstars.ekos.mount] - meridianFlipStatusChanged  "FLIP_COMPLETED"
[2021-08-22T01:34:41.570 EDT INFO ][     org.kde.kstars.ekos.mount] - "Meridian flip completed."
[2021-08-22T01:34:41.581 EDT INFO ][   org.kde.kstars.ekos.capture] - "Telescope completed the meridian flip."
[2021-08-22T01:34:41.612 EDT DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.scheduler] - Mount State changed to 3
[2021-08-22T01:34:41.612 EDT DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.scheduler] - Capture State "Idle"
[2021-08-22T01:34:42.501 EDT DEBG ][     org.kde.kstars.ekos.mount] - Setting meridian flip status to  "FLIP_NONE"
[2021-08-22T01:34:42.501 EDT DEBG ][     org.kde.kstars.ekos.mount] - meridianFlipStatusChanged  "FLIP_NONE"
[2021-08-22T02:23:13.552 EDT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.scheduler] - Scheduler is stopping...
[2021-08-22T02:23:13.553 EDT DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.scheduler] - Job ' "Cocoon_Lx_240" ' is stopping current action... 13
[2021-08-22T02:23:13.556 EDT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.scheduler] - "Job 'Cocoon_Lx_240' is stopping guiding..."
[2021-08-22T02:23:13.557 EDT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.scheduler] - "Job 'Cocoon_Lx_240' has not been processed upon scheduler stop, marking aborted."
[2021-08-22T02:23:17.283 EDT DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.scheduler] - "Searching in path '/mnt/usb/Cocoon_Lx_240/Light', files 'Cocoon_Lx_240s_Light*' for prefix 'Cocoon_Lx_240s_Light'..."
[2021-08-22T02:23:17.283 EDT DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.scheduler] - "> Found 'Cocoon_Lx_240s_Light_001'"
[2021-08-22T02:23:17.283 EDT DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.scheduler] - "> Found 'Cocoon_Lx_240s_Light_002'"
[2021-08-22T02:23:17.284 EDT DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.scheduler] - "> Found 'Cocoon_Lx_240s_Light_003'"

Attached are a screenshot of my settings and the full log from last night 

 

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