Nothing but problems!
Randy, The first time you run PHD2 you definitely want to get through calibration manually. After that, you can re-use that calibration data (assuming you mark it to save/restore calibration). SGP...
View ArticleCrash during binned focus
That's a difficult one to troubleshoot. You could try replacing cables, eliminating the hub... it could even be cable flexure at the connectors on either the camera or the mount? I doubt it was SGP...
View ArticleCrash during binned focus
Agree with everything there! I have set up my second laptop to be available if it happens again. No real clues so far. Lawrence
View ArticleNGC7023 - Iris Nebula
An excellent image well done, and a plus for the EQ8 which takes quite a bit of bad press in some quarters... Ray
View ArticleINDI client/server support
I can't tell if this feature request has already been submitted or nixed. Searching for "indi" brings up a lot of "indicat*" words, and the only valid mention I found was about SGP on Linux. Although...
View ArticleDome control
Hello, I'm just finishing to create my dome controller (roll-off roof), and I have few questions about it : - is there a way to set an option in sgp where moving the telescop is not allowed as long as...
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Dome control
sebastien_B: is there a way to set an option in sgp where moving the telescop is not allowed as long as the shutter is not in the status "open". The ASCOM telescope Park method does this and SGP...
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Mosaic Manual Rotator Checklist?
its called Angle Meter by Jin Jeon .....its free. Rotate the camera by hand to any angle that you choose. I had to rotate so my FW and OAG would not crash into the mount when it was slewing around....
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Crash during binned focus
Sorry Lawrence, hopefully it was just one of those weird errors that never pops up again. I don't have any advice for it.
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Mosaic Manual Rotator Checklist?
Super Cool! Thank you Dennis, I'll try and report back, I really appreciate all your help! (I hope I can find someone as knowledgeable as you on the meridian Flip failure I'm experiencing, but one...
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Meridian flip Failure..Help!
Hi and thank you for reading this. I have a Celestron C14 Edge HD on a CGE Pro mount with a Starsense HC and for some reason SGP will not Pier Flip. I've attached a couple of screen grabs depicting...
View ArticleCrash during binned focus
Pleased to say that an hour or two tonight allowed me to get it going OK. Although I hit a few weird problems I put this down to me missing bits in the manual. I got it to autoguide fine (well, OK),...
View ArticleNGC7023 - Iris Nebula
A couple of observations on your exposures. You didn't give the binning so I will assume 1x1. Most cameras are more sensitive to green so you may be able to cut back on green exposures. On my camera,...
View Article2.5.1.17 not starting after installation
Pieter, Let's try a complete tear down. I'm not sure if you have any profiles that you created during your trial, but this will delete them as well. If you do have profiles be sure to back them up....
View ArticleFeature Request - Enhancements to time scheduling
I think what this is turning into is much more advanced scheduling. I'm not sure if/when we will approach something like this. I'm not going to lie, we've been talking about it for a while but it's a...
View ArticleAutomatic move from park and start sidereal
We explicitly call unpark and enable tracking after calling unpark. For whatever reason not all mounts automatically enable tracking. Thanks,Jared
View ArticleNo messages received from PHD2 for 1 minute, checking socket with status
Yes, this is a known issue. Being tracked here: forum.mainsequencesoftware.com Total Failures on Second Object After upgrading to .17 this has started happening to me. Downgraded again to .16 Nice obs...
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Nothing but problems!
ncwolfie: So are others having this issue with PHD2? Probably so. It really depends on if their setup can calibrate in under 5 minutes. If you have a permanent or semi-permanent setup then just save...
View ArticleDome control
The "Update Frequency" should limit how often your hardware is called most of the time. However you really need to handle threading and throttling in the ASCOM driver like Chris is recommending. It's...
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