Well, preliminary tests aren't very hopeful. I connected to the new computer and the same behavior occurred. When taking a frame and focus frame, the camera briefly reported temperature as "NA" and then the exposure failed. On the plus side, SGP appears to have appropriately aborted the exposure this time, rather than having it hang up. We'll see how the sequence runs tonight and I'll report tomorrow. Right now, however, it looks like it is either an SGP issue in how it is communicating with the camera or a camera problem. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. I'm not convinced this is a new issue...I used to run into problems with the first exposure (my blind solve) not downloading. But, I would simply abort and reissue it and it would work. I never thought to check the logs to see what happened. Only recently, however, has this become a problem where the downloads are failing elsewhere in the sequence. If SGP handles it appropriately and aborts the exposure and either quits the sequence or wakes me up with GNS, it isn't a problem (or, at least, it is workable)...the big danger I have now is that, because my AP mount has the older Q chip, I cannot use APCC and, thus, cannot impose meridian limits. As such, the scope can track into the mount if the exposure fails and hangs up SGP.
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