to avoid tilt. I have an electronic rotator and I experience some tilt at certain positions (not too critical), and probably rotating by 180d the camera I would get rid off it. So for example I experience some tilt at 300d but not at 120, preserving the same framing
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Hi,
When the scheduler is running is not possible to select and see (only see, not modifying, of course) the jobs and all of its properties (when clicked, the info for the selected job won't refresh). Sometimes is useful to double check if I defined correctly such job. Is it possible to change such behaviour of the gui?
Regards
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Hi guys,
Is it possible to know beforehand how many degrees the rotator would move according to a particular fit file without doing a load and slew from ekos?
m
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Hi,
Running kstars 3.6.7.
- Create a sequence and set some pre/post jobs/capture script(s)
- Save to an .esq file
- You may need to empty the current sequence queue
- Load the previous saved esq file
- Scripts are not loaded from the esq
Regards
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I performed such upgrade Derek. So far so good. Fits header issue was solved among other improvements. Please let me share the extra post-steps I had to follow after upgrade (note that I use Mint, not ubuntu purely):
pip3 install indiweb
apt install indi-qhy indi-eqmod indi-gpsd kstars-bleeding
yes, for some reason kstars was uninstalled so I had to install it again, but you don't need to configure it again since you preserve your home dir and kstars config files.
Note that the above is a brief summary of what I really did. I have removed steps that I guess does not apply to you, like installing extra python libraries that I personally use. Also, if you don't have a qhy camera you don't need to install such related packages.
Another side note: I had to recover the previous fxload binary (yes, perform a backup of your whole system before upgrading) cause otherwise it was not able to load qhy firmware(s) properly into the camera(s).
Hope this helps.
m
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well, to be honest I agree with your statement in your first posts:
The user may need to load different jobs with independent angle, without using a reference frame.
This is my very particular situation: as I mentioned previously, my rotator produces some tilt at very specific angles. I created a sequence of 180 jobs automatically from a template, changing only the <Rotation> xml tag value increasing such by +5 in every loop (that is, I want to check the tilt every 5 degrees). When I loaded the .esq file the Rotation options was not recognized, obviously.
This is a very particular situation and I'm not going to ask to put the option back. If both of you consider is not needed, I would agree 
m
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one additional question, what happened with the checkbox "Save Camera Position Angle to Sequence Job" ? I cannot see it. Is is possible to save such rotation to the job?
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Toni, I did some tests last night and worked perfectly
This has been a major improvement for me. Thanks for your time and support!
m
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Toni, the PIERSIDE fits header needs to be present in the file, right? Cause I've just noted that the image I used has not such header. I will try again tonight
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That's what I tested last night Toni. That's the policy I set expecting to behave as that. But it didn't. I waited for an object to cross the meridian and then performed a load and slew. The rotator rotated 180d.
Am I missing something?
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