Mosaic Wizzard
Was your rotation angle correct? IE does the angle of your solves match the angle that you initially used for setting up the mosaic? It looks like you have a LOT of horizontal overlap but no vertical...
View ArticlePHD2 as safety device?
I use PhD as a safety device. I do have a weather station which will shut things down when it detects cloud, but as sometimes happens it clears 10 mins later, so I set a high tolerance for cloud and...
View ArticlePHD2 as safety device?
That's a really good idea, and doesn't need any change to SGP or PHD2 at all. All that's needed is to implement a safety driver that connects to and monitors PHD2. If PHD2 reports star lost the the...
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What happened？I found three problems at least, and expect stable SGPro
Thank you, buzz. I'll have a try.
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What happened？I found three problems at least, and expect stable SGPro
Last night, 'Failed to meridian flip, aborting sequence' again! It seems SGPro finished camera action and can't execute PS2 to finish plate solver, caused timeout and ‘Failed to meridian flip,...
View ArticleWhat happened？I found three problems at least, and expect stable SGPro
This is a known issue and will be addressed in the 2.5.2 beta (soon). It affects some cameras more obviously than others... sorry for an inconvenience.
View ArticleAuto-center dialog hang / rotator bug
@andy @ken I have some more info on this. it appears that the problem occurs when the main solver falls back to ANSVR during validation. SGP and PS2 are apparently talking about angles relative to sky...
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I have another suggestion to further improve this idea. When PHD2 loses the guide star if it could "auto select star" as a first port of call before starting to try and find the current star that...
View ArticleRoutine crashes of SGP
I am virtually unable to run SGP on my 'observatory' laptop because it crashes whenever it decides that it has lost contact with the main camera. Sadly there have been no responses to my queries. The...
View ArticleRoutine crashes of SGP
That's not really an "error" as such. Similar log notes like that appear in every one of my logs as well. If you are having an issue with communicating with your camera make sure that your usb cables...
View ArticleRoutine crashes of SGP
Thanks Joel - you are the first person to actually respond to a major problem.... I'll try to post. sg_logfile_20160903092657.txt (23.0 KB) again Thanks. Lawrence
View ArticleRoutine crashes of SGP
There appears to be a problem with the ASCOM connection to the camera. Atthis point I won't be much help because I don't have the technicalknowledge. It may be worthwhile to uninstall the SX main...
View ArticleRoutine crashes of SGP
Hello JoelFirstly - I am really grateful for your help.I am using a Lodestar#1 (the original Lodestar camera) as my guide camera. I am using an Ultrastar (also SX) as the main camera (for this...
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Routine crashes of SGP
SGP gone wrong.jpg1366x768 100 KB Can you help with this as well? Some weeks back SGP crashed like never before. This is all I can get when I run it. I cannot restore the proper display. Lawrence
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What do you mean by "proper display"? The Histograms and Frame and Focusmodules are undocked. If you drag one of them to either side a littlesquare will appear and you can dock the module to the side....
View ArticleRoutine crashes of SGP
On my other laptop, the two modules hold nicely within the left side and with a menu for image adjustment. These two modules do not dock. They do offer the small square but that square is not...
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Routine crashes of SGP
Can I note that the smiley was not the one I selected! Please ignore.....! SGP crash.jpg1366x768 121 KB Yet another crash stopped me from re-trying your suggestion. I copied the crash message in case...
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At this point Jared or Ken will have to weight in as I am at the end of mytechnical knowledge. However, it seems like there are so many things goingon that I would probably completely start over with...
View ArticlePHD2 as safety device?
Check out Tektite skies. It uses any all sky camera feed (it can even compare pictures saved to a drive) and applies a Safety Monitor to it. Cost is cheap, has a 40 day demo....
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