Hy Murveit replied to the topic 'KStars/Ekos locks on start-up' in the forum. 2 days ago

I don't crash when disabling twilight check in my scheduler and loading your terrain overlay.
Could you please attach a copy of your kstarsrc (and if possible a detailed description of what to do to cause the crash).

Thanks,
Hy

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Hy Murveit replied to the topic 'KStars/Ekos locks on start-up' in the forum. 2 days ago

Richard,

I am not experiencing the crash on my machine with my settings and that file, e.g. see



You can work around this by manually editing your settings file.
I'm not sure where that is on a mac, but perhaps you can figure it out from its Linux location: ~/.config/kstarsrc.

On my machine, I see this line inside the file:
TerrainSource=/home/hy/.local/share/kstars/terrain/LeBourdieu4096x2048.png
If you remove the corresponding line on your system, then your terrain overlay shouldn't be loaded next time you start KStars.
(Note: most settings are not saved in users.sqlite.)

If you send me that settings file, that would have the info related to the screenshot I asked for,
also, though, it shouldn't crash anymore and you should be able to take a screenshot.

Another thing to experiment with in the projection you're using (View --> Projection) although I tried all and couldn't reproduce the crash.

Hy

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Hy Murveit replied to the topic 'KStars/Ekos locks on start-up' in the forum. 3 days ago

Can you post a link to the terrain file? Does it do it on other OSes? I can check that, but don't run KStars on a Mac.
Take a screenshot of your Terrain settings too.
Hy

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Re polar alignment, you can polar align from most places in the sky. I'd try the pole if it is visible, but if not, just start by pointing your scope, say just west of the meridian in a part of the sky where the sky is visible from there down another 40º-60º. Set the polar alignment direction West (if you are west of the meridian, or east if you are east of the meridian) and set the angle to slew say 20º if you have 45º of open sky west of there. I'd recommend using the plate-solve scheme. See instructions in the KStars handbook: docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/kstars/kstars/kstars.pdf

I'm not familiar with your mount of camera so will let others hopefully address Q1 and Q2.

Hy

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Hy Murveit replied to the topic 'Editing running schedules' in the forum. 2 weeks ago

I just pushed a fix into the beta software.
Hy

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Hy Murveit replied to the topic 'Editing running schedules' in the forum. 2 weeks ago

Yes, I verified this issue. The problem is that the widget gets its min/max from the camera characteristics. I can fix this like I fixed other similar issues (e.g. gain/ISO drop-down) by storing/retrieving the values from the last connect to the camera. I'll try and get to that in the next few days, so hopefully fixed in the next release and in upcoming nightly release--but not yet.

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Hy Murveit replied to the topic 'Hiding Ekos on macOS' in the forum. 2 weeks ago

Bill,

I wish I had a good answer for you (and I'm definitely not "one of the Mac developers") but I'll add that window showing/hiding has been an issue on the Mac for a while. Probably more of a Qt issue than a KStars issue. @rlancaste has looked at it for a while. You can try playing with the "independent window" settings in the "configure KStars" menus--e.g. in the FITS, Ekos, and INDI tabs there.

Hy

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Also, I'm guessing you'd have to re-start KStars (not 100% sure) after you edited that file, for it to re-load the parameters from that file.

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Bill,

The calibration is stored in the parameters file. So, if you are on linux you can find that file in ~/.config/kstarsrc
Here's the line (from my dev system, not my real telescope):

SerializedCalibration=Cal v1.0,bx=2,by=2,pw=0.00375,ph=0.00375,fl=170,ang=275.421,angR=270.039,angD=190.803,ramspas=295.899,decmspas=250.12,swap=0,ra= 75:26:32,dec=02:47:50,side=0,when=2023-03-24 15:41:39,calEnd

If you want to understand all the various fields, check out the Calibration::serialize() and Calibration::restore() methods near here:
invent.kde.org/education/kstars/-/blob/m...?ref_type=heads#L341

Hy

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