Anand, I checked my EQMod Mount settings, and indeed, "Reverse West/East" in the Motion Control tab was checked! No idea how that happened, but after I unchecked that setting, polar alignment works again. Problem solved! Many thanks for pointing me in the right direction.
Axel
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Same issue here. My equipment:
[2023-08-19T21:19:56.517 EDT DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.align] - "First mount rotation remaining degrees:" 30
[2023-08-19T21:19:57.591 EDT DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.align] - "First mount rotation remaining degrees:" 30.2626
[2023-08-19T21:19:58.662 EDT DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.align] - "First mount rotation remaining degrees:" 32.3222
Yes, I do periodic backups of my SD card. This way, if a new KStars/Ekos version causes any problems, I can always go back to a working installation.
After inserting the SD card into a card reader, which is plugged into my Linux machine, I run
sudo dd if=/dev/sdX of=backup.img bs=1M status=progress
Jasem's PPA provides the latest versions of Kstars/Indi only for currently supported Ubuntu releases. 19.04 reached its
end of life
in January 2020.
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This morning I noticed an interesting behavior of the shutdown procedure. After a night of taking O-III and S-II frames, I was surprised to see that the sequence queue did not show the jobs as "completed", but as "Aborted" (O-III) and "Idle" (S-II). Yet, the images were there.
[2020-08-08T05:08:02.601 EDT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.fits] - Loading FITS file "/home/axel/astro/IC_1396/Light/SII/IC_1396_Light_SII_120_secs_122.fits"
[2020-08-08T05:08:02.603 EDT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.capture] - "Received image 80 out of 85."
[2020-08-08T05:08:02.685 EDT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.capture] - "Capturing 120.000-second SII image..."
[2020-08-08T05:08:02.786 EDT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - ZWO CCD ASI1600MM Pro : "[INFO] Taking a 120 seconds frame... "
[2020-08-08T05:09:02.815 EDT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.scheduler] - "Job 'IC 1396' is now approaching astronomical twilight rise limit at Sat Aug 8 05:09:00 2020 (0 minutes safety margin), marking idle."
[2020-08-08T05:09:02.824 EDT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.scheduler] - "Job 'IC 1396' is stopping guiding..."
[2020-08-08T05:09:02.825 EDT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.capture] - "Autoguiding stopped. Aborting..."
[2020-08-08T05:10:16.279 EDT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.capture] - "Job requires 120.000-second OIII images, has 0/85 frames captured and will be processed."
[2020-08-08T05:10:16.284 EDT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.capture] - "Capturing 120.000-second OIII image..."
[2020-08-08T05:10:16.535 EDT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - ZWO CCD ASI1600MM Pro : "[INFO] Taking a 120 seconds frame... "
[2020-08-08T05:10:40.969 EDT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.guide] - "Lost track of the guide star. Searching for guide stars..."
[2020-08-08T05:10:45.132 EDT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.guide] - "Autoguiding started."
[2020-08-08T05:12:01.677 EDT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.scheduler] - "Job 'IC 1396' is now approaching astronomical twilight rise limit at Sat Aug 8 05:12:00 2020 (0 minutes safety margin), marking idle."
[2020-08-08T05:12:01.684 EDT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.scheduler] - "Job 'IC 1396' is stopping guiding..."
[2020-08-08T05:12:03.678 EDT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.scheduler] - Starting shutdown process...
[2020-08-08T05:12:03.678 EDT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.scheduler] - "Warming up CCD..."
[2020-08-08T05:12:03.727 EDT INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.capture] - "Cooler is off"
Interesting. Your version seems to be similar to the one from the
stable release
, which (at least for me) did not have any alignment issues. (It did have an
autofocus issue
, which is why I switched to a more recent version).
I compiled KStars using the
instructions on GitHub
. If you change the install prefix in the cmake command from
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo ../kstars
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr/local -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo ../kstars
I wonder if you are experiencing the same issue reported
here
and
here
. Do you know which KStars / INDI version Astroberry 2.0.2 uses? I fixed my problem by compiling the KStars code from GitHub (commit 446481d5fb485ec6437c43bb6bcc1c5b76adedfd).
Axel
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I did one full night of imaging with the latest KStars from GitHub (commit 446481d5fb485ec6437c43bb6bcc1c5b76adedfd) and INDI 1.8.5 from the stable PPA. My EQ6-R mount slewed and aligned to four different targets without problems.
Axel
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I have been following this thread, since I ran into the same problem. Here what I did tonight:
I'm wondering the same thing. I recently had the issue that the automatic autofocus upon a filter change did not work , and my logs showed the message
When I updated Kstars and INDI from the stable ppa:mutlaqja/ppa to the nightly builds ppa:mutlaqja/indinightly, I got the autofocus back. However, the logs still show the same message. This is with an ASI1600MM Pro camera and the ZWO EFW.Ignoring Received FITS CCD1 as it has the wrong capture mode 1
A quick update in case anyone experienced similar problems: Updating Kstars from 6:3.4.2+202004251749~ubuntu19.10.1 to nightly build 6:3.4.3+202006171130~ubuntu19.10.1 (from ppa:mutlaqja/indinightly) solved the problem; autofocus upon a filter change works again.
Axel
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