Hi all,

I've had two recurring issues with Astroberry and I've run out of ideas on how to resolve the issues.

I'm using a Pi 4b.  The mount is a CEM60, the scope is a TMB130SS with a focal length of 910mm. The main camera I am using is a Canon 60da.

When trying to capture an image, often times I will get a "capture fail" message in the dialogue box.  The capture fail occurs at the end of the exposure. Doesn't matter about the length of the exposure either. Two nights ago while testing in my house I had zero capture fail issues. I took about 30 exposures with no issue. Last night while attempting to image I would get a capture fail every third try.

I've attempted two different drivers as well as using a two second delay in the mirror lock tab. This is what the driver info says for both under general info in the indi control panel for the camera.

Name: GPhoto CCD     or  GPhoto CCD
Exec: indi_canon_ccd  or indi_gphoto_ccd
Version: 3.0   (same for both) 
Interface: 10 (same for both)

Also autoshut off is turned off on my camera and I believe the cable connecting the camera to the Pi unit is good too. I used it a few weeks ago with a computer running BackyardEOS

So I'm really not sure what else to do.

So for the plate solving I am trying to run it offline as the online version always times out. I've downloaded all the suggested files per Ekos as well. When I capture & solve the program times out. The error message either displays times  out after so many seconds or last night it said it times out after -214748648 seconds ( in reality it stopped working after 3 seconds)

I believe the field of view is correct, but I'm not 100% sure.  Per its calculations the field of view is 431.8' x 183.2'.  When I do an online field of view calculator it says the field of view is 1.41 x 0.94 degrees.

And the online conversion from degrees to minutes gives me 84.6 x 56.4 minutes. So something isn't right or most likely I am doing something wrong.

Sorry for the long post and thanks for your help!

Zach
 

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