Bug 451687 - Attempted Meridian Flip causes great confusion
Summary: Attempted Meridian Flip causes great confusion
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: kstars
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 3.5.7
Platform: macOS (DMG) macOS
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Wolfgang Reissenberger
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Reported: 2022-03-19 16:13 UTC by Jon Bryan
Modified: 2022-09-04 16:28 UTC (History)
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Description Jon Bryan 2022-03-19 16:13:44 UTC
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Running KStars/Ekos remotely on a MacBook Pro, controlling with an iMac in the house.
Using PHD2 to guide.
I had split the job into a pre-meridian sequence, darks, and post-meridian, imaging M 106.
At the conclusion of the dark acquisition, the mount was reporting only about three minutes to the flip.
I paused the Scheduler, leaving the mount tracking and PHD2 guiding.
When it came time for the flip, it reported failure, and said it would try again in three-something minutes.
I noticed that the mount was offset somewhat from the target.
I tried to capture and slew to it, but the mount wouldn't move.
I selected a number of other objects in the vicinity and had no problem solving and centering them.
No matter what I tried, it would no longer solve and center M 106 in the reticle.
I eventually realized that PHD2 was interfering somehow (though no longer guiding), and killed and restarted it.
I was then able to capture, solve and slew to M 106.
I deleted the pre-meridian and dark jobs in the scheduler, re-started it and completed the post-meridian job.

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macOS: 11.6.4
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Comment 1 Wolfgang Reissenberger 2022-09-04 12:07:35 UTC
Sorry for the late response. Do you have the logs available? If not, could you reproduce the same with the latest KStars version?
Comment 2 Jon Bryan 2022-09-04 14:20:24 UTC
I just haven’t had any success with flips lately, so I’ve been scheduling around them.  It fails without ever moving the mount.  I think there must be something basic that I’m missing.  We’ve had a very unusual couple of months of cloudy nights, but the monsoon flow up from Baja has shifted now and I’ve gotten a couple of good nights in.  I’ll get back around to it eventually, but I’m having other problems with Kstars (3.6.0) failing in various ways after I go to bed.  I really want to like it, but it’s not very reliable for me.

-Jon



> On Sep 4, 2022, at 6:07 AM, Wolfgang Reissenberger <bugzilla_noreply@kde.org> wrote:
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> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=451687
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> Wolfgang Reissenberger <wreissen@gmx.de> changed:
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>           What    |Removed                     |Added
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>         Resolution|---                         |WAITINGFORINFO
>                 CC|                            |wreissen@gmx.de
>             Status|REPORTED                    |NEEDSINFO
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> --- Comment #1 from Wolfgang Reissenberger <wreissen@gmx.de> ---
> Sorry for the late response. Do you have the logs available? If not, could you
> reproduce the same with the latest KStars version?
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Comment 3 Wolfgang Reissenberger 2022-09-04 16:28:14 UTC
Please use the forum and provide your logs, we‘ll help you.

I‘m closing the bug, since it’s outdated.