Hi All,

I bumped into a new problem last night. (Second night for me with the new version Kstars Stable release 3.5.5 and Stellarmate 1.60 on a Raspberry Pi  ).

I ran a job of  150 exposures and after 89 exposures it triggered the automatic meridian flip but did not resume guiding thereafter though the exposures continued.

According to the analyzer (see attached screen) slew and alignment were successful after the flip and the exposures were continued but the guiding did not resume. The graph does not even show an attempt to start guiding. And looking at the images taken after the flip the guiding was in fact off.

Did the logic of the scheduler change here in the new version? I used the scheduler for the session but did not select any of the steps like focus guiding etc at the left hand side of the screen as I followed these steps manually before starting the job to monitor what happens. I used to do it like this before but so far guiding always restarted after meridian flip and in case the resume of the guiding failed it did not resume the exposures and aborted the job.

Now it looks that there was no attempt to start the guiding but still the exposures have been resumed. The job continued to the end, mount was parked. So somewhat all good except guiding was off.

Earlier the same evening in another session I took some exposures without the scheduler to test another optic on a different object. This included a meridian flip and the guiding resumed with no problem.

Any new parameters that would have to be set in the new version when using the scheduler or was this just a glitch?

Thanks!
Alex

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