Bug 388366

Summary:	Focus routine should be ignored when doing darks
Product:	[Applications] kstars	Reporter:	Paul <phomer60>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Jasem Mutlaq <mutlaqja>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	2.8.9
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Paul 2017-12-30 20:16:44 UTC

Last night I set up a sequence queue that contains lights and then darks.

What I failed to realise was that I had set 'Autofocus is HFR >' for darks.

I was having guiding issues so decided to remove the lights from the quue, parked the mount and ran the queue for the darks.

This morning I found only one dark had been produced because it had tried to focus before the second dark, found it could not find a star and aborted.

Can the software be updated to ignore all the 'Limit Settings' when doing darks?

Although this was not the case last night, it would also be useful to ignore the Filter option in 'File Settings'.

Comment 1 Jasem Mutlaq 2017-12-30 21:21:44 UTC

It already does that. Maybe when you remove the light and kept the dark, something was left over. Can you try to replicate that with the simulators?

Comment 2 Paul 2017-12-30 23:38:01 UTC

(In reply to Jasem Mutlaq from comment #1)
> It already does that. Maybe when you remove the light and kept the dark,
> something was left over. Can you try to replicate that with the simulators?
Jasem,
I cannot reproduce this using the simulators as I cannot get the guiding to work.
It just keeps saying 'Exposure Timeout. Restarting exposure...'.
I may need to wait until it is dark.

Comment 3 Jasem Mutlaq 2017-12-31 21:18:48 UTC

You get this error "Restarting Exposure" while using Simulators?!

Comment 4 Paul 2017-12-31 23:35:46 UTC

(In reply to Jasem Mutlaq from comment #3)
> You get this error "Restarting Exposure" while using Simulators?!

Jasem,

I tried a number of things last night but was unable to reproduce the issue.