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Restart or continue session after clouds stop PHD2

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Restart or continue session after clouds stop PHD2 was created by Arun Venkataswamy

Hi,

The current season for us in Chennai, a coastal metropolis in southern India is marked by transparent and substantially clear skies with occasional fast moving low clouds. I use PHD2 for guiding. When a cloud rolls by, PHD2 tries to reacquire the guide star for 60 seconds and continues guiding. Unfortunately when a large cloud rolls by, PHD2 aborts after the 60 second timeout. At this point, EKOS also stops the sequence as PHD2 has stopped guiding. I shoot overnight, after going to sleep and am unable to manually restart after the abort. For example, last night while shooting Thor's helmet a large cloud rolled in around 12:30AM and the sequence was aborted. I still had about 3 hours worth of data that could have been captured.

Is it possible to automate the process for retrying running the sequence along with instructing PHD2 to reacquire a guide star and guide?  

Regards,
Arun
 
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Replied by Jarno Paananen on topic Restart or continue session after clouds stop PHD2

Using scheduler you can control how errors during jobs are handled and it can retry the capture with a delay or immediately.
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Replied by Arun Venkataswamy on topic Restart or continue session after clouds stop PHD2

Thanks for the info, will try this out.

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Arun
 
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