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Guiding does not automatically restart after meridian flip re-try

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I've had this issue several times and wondering what I can do to solve it.

Well essentially there are two issues:
1. The meridian flip fails for some unknown reason, it retries the filp 4 minutes later successfully.
2. After the second attempt (flip is successful), it does a focus as planned, but never restarts guiding. It just goes back to capturing with guiding turned off.

Would love to solve both issues. But solving just one of them may provide great benefit as well. (If the first flip succeeds, perhaps guiding will restart successfully?)

<strong>Setup is as follows:</strong>
Astroberry Running on raspberry pi 4.
Connected directly to Skywatcher EQ6-R Pro mount with USB cable (no hand controller is connected at all).
Using EQMod driver.

<strong>Mount tab has the following logs for the first flip that fails:</strong>
2022-08-31T23:18:21 Meridian flip completed.
2022-08-31T23:18:21 meridian flip failed, retrying in 4 minutes
2022-08-31T23:18:20 Meridian flip slew started...
2022-08-31T23:18:20 Meridian flip started.

<strong>Indi EQMod Control Panel (GMT time) logs, that begin before or at the first flip attempt:</strong>
2022-09-01T06:23:59: [INFO] Telescope slew is complete. Tracking TRACK_SIDEREAL...
2022-09-01T06:23:59: [INFO] Iterative Goto (1): RA diff = 0.52 arcsecs DE diff = 0.02 arcsecs
2022-09-01T06:23:58: [INFO] Slewing to RA: 20:46:57 - DEC: 30:40:47
2022-09-01T06:23:58: [INFO] Slewing mount: RA increment = 225, DE increment = -32
2022-09-01T06:23:58: [INFO] Setting Eqmod Goto RA=20.794 DE=30.9685 (target RA=20.7824 DE=30.6797)
2022-09-01T06:23:58: [INFO] Aligned Eqmod Goto RA=20.794 DE=30.9685 (target RA=20.7824 DE=30.6797)
2022-09-01T06:23:58: [INFO] GOTO ALign Nearest: delta RA = 0.011631, delta DEC = 0.288763
2022-09-01T06:23:58: [INFO] Align: current point is 3
2022-09-01T06:23:58: [INFO] Starting Goto RA=20.7824 DE=30.6797 (current RA=20.7945 DE=30.9672)
2022-09-01T06:23:58: [INFO] Align Sync: point added: lst=20.89802170 celestial RA 20.78290916 DEC 30.67846406 Telescope RA 20.79453993 DEC 30.96722656
2022-09-01T06:23:58: [INFO] Align Triangulate: number of faces is 3
2022-09-01T06:23:58: [INFO] Align Pointset: added point 3 alt = 75.1038 az = 185.797
2022-09-01T06:23:40: [INFO] Telescope slew is complete. Tracking TRACK_SIDEREAL...
2022-09-01T06:23:40: [INFO] Iterative Goto (1): RA diff = 1.84 arcsecs DE diff = 0.04 arcsecs
2022-09-01T06:23:39: [INFO] Slewing to RA: 20:46:57 - DEC: 30:40:47
2022-09-01T06:23:39: [INFO] Slewing mount: RA increment = 15146, DE increment = -14876
2022-09-01T06:23:39: [INFO] Setting Eqmod Goto RA=20.794 DE=30.9672 (target RA=20.7824 DE=30.6797)
2022-09-01T06:23:39: [INFO] Aligned Eqmod Goto RA=20.794 DE=30.9672 (target RA=20.7824 DE=30.6797)
2022-09-01T06:23:39: [INFO] GOTO ALign Nearest: delta RA = 0.011635, delta DEC = 0.287507
2022-09-01T06:23:39: [INFO] Align: current point is 2
2022-09-01T06:23:39: [INFO] Starting Goto RA=20.7824 DE=30.6797 (current RA=20.8334 DE=30.3861)
2022-09-01T06:23:38: [INFO] Align Sync: point added: lst=20.89264807 celestial RA 20.82181030 DEC 30.09862549 Telescope RA 20.83344494 DEC 30.38613281
2022-09-01T06:23:38: [INFO] Align Triangulate: number of faces is 1
2022-09-01T06:23:38: [INFO] Align Pointset: added point 2 alt = 74.5627 az = 183.466
2022-09-01T06:23:14: [INFO] Telescope slew is complete. Tracking TRACK_SIDEREAL...
2022-09-01T06:23:14: [INFO] Iterative Goto (2): RA diff = 1.01 arcsecs DE diff = 0.00 arcsecs
2022-09-01T06:23:13: [INFO] Iterative goto (1): slew mount to RA increment = 5473, DE increment = 0
2022-09-01T06:23:13: [INFO] Iterative Goto (1): RA diff = 51.30 arcsecs DE diff = 0.00 arcsecs
2022-09-01T06:22:40: [INFO] Align: current point is 1
2022-09-01T06:22:28: [INFO] Align: current point is 0
2022-09-01T06:22:22: [INFO] Slewing to RA: 20:46:57 - DEC: 30:40:47
2022-09-01T06:22:22: [INFO] Slewing mount: RA increment = -4608028, DE increment = 3052230
2022-09-01T06:22:22: [INFO] Setting Eqmod Goto RA=20.8332 DE=30.3861 (target RA=20.7824 DE=30.6797)
2022-09-01T06:22:22: [INFO] Aligned Eqmod Goto RA=20.8332 DE=30.3861 (target RA=20.7824 DE=30.6797)
2022-09-01T06:22:22: [INFO] GOTO ALign Nearest: delta RA = 0.050769, delta DEC = -0.293575
2022-09-01T06:22:22: [INFO] Starting Goto RA=20.7824 DE=30.6797 (current RA=20.8331 DE=30.3861)
2022-09-01T06:18:20: [INFO] Telescope slew is complete. Tracking TRACK_SIDEREAL...
2022-09-01T06:18:20: [INFO] Iterative Goto (1): RA diff = 0.37 arcsecs DE diff = 0.00 arcsecs
2022-09-01T06:18:20: [INFO] Slewing to RA: 20:46:57 - DEC: 30:40:47
2022-09-01T06:18:20: [INFO] Slewing mount: RA increment = 75, DE increment = 0
2022-09-01T06:18:20: [INFO] Setting Eqmod Goto RA=20.8332 DE=30.3861 (target RA=20.7824 DE=30.6797)
2022-09-01T06:18:20: [INFO] Aligned Eqmod Goto RA=20.8332 DE=30.3861 (target RA=20.7824 DE=30.6797)
2022-09-01T06:18:20: [INFO] GOTO ALign Nearest: delta RA = 0.050769, delta DEC = -0.293575
2022-09-01T06:18:20: [INFO] Starting Goto RA=20.7824 DE=30.6797 (current RA=20.8332 DE=30.3861)
2022-09-01T06:18:18: [INFO] Telescope slew is complete. Tracking TRACK_SIDEREAL...
2022-09-01T06:18:18: [INFO] Iterative Goto (1): RA diff = 0.64 arcsecs DE diff = 0.01 arcsecs
2022-09-01T06:18:18: [INFO] Slewing to RA: 20:46:56 - DEC: 30:40:47
2022-09-01T06:18:18: [INFO] Slewing mount: RA increment = -216, DE increment = 197
2022-09-01T06:18:17: [INFO] Setting Eqmod Goto RA=20.833 DE=30.3861 (target RA=20.7822 DE=30.6797)
2022-09-01T06:18:17: [INFO] Aligned Eqmod Goto RA=20.833 DE=30.3861 (target RA=20.7822 DE=30.6797)
2022-09-01T06:18:17: [INFO] GOTO ALign Nearest: delta RA = 0.050769, delta DEC = -0.293575
2022-09-01T06:18:17: [INFO] Align: current point is 1
2022-09-01T06:18:17: [INFO] Starting Goto RA=20.7822 DE=30.6797 (current RA=20.8324 DE=30.3784)
2022-09-01T06:18:17: [INFO] Align Sync: point added: lst=20.80323527 celestial RA 20.78160403 DEC 30.67201290 Telescope RA 20.83237329 DEC 30.37843750
2022-09-01T06:18:17: [INFO] Align Triangulate: number of faces is 0
2022-09-01T06:18:17: [INFO] Align Pointset: added point 1 alt = 75.1565 az = 181.101
2022-09-01T06:18:00: [INFO] Telescope slew is complete. Tracking TRACK_SIDEREAL...
2022-09-01T06:18:00: [INFO] Iterative Goto (1): RA diff = 0.55 arcsecs DE diff = 0.00 arcsecs
2022-09-01T06:18:00: [WARNING] Can not guide if not tracking.
2022-09-01T06:18:00: [WARNING] Can not guide if not tracking.
2022-09-01T06:17:59: [INFO] Slewing to RA: 20:46:56 - DEC: 30:40:47
2022-09-01T06:17:59: [INFO] Slewing mount: RA increment = -383, DE increment = -142
2022-09-01T06:17:59: [INFO] Setting Eqmod Goto RA=20.8322 DE=30.3784 (target RA=20.7822 DE=30.6797)
2022-09-01T06:17:59: [INFO] Aligned Eqmod Goto RA=20.8322 DE=30.3784 (target RA=20.7822 DE=30.6797)
2022-09-01T06:17:59: [INFO] GOTO ALign Nearest: delta RA = 0.050002, delta DEC = -0.301269
2022-09-01T06:17:59: [INFO] Starting Goto RA=20.7822 DE=30.6797 (current RA=20.8312 DE=30.384)
Last edit: 1 year 6 months ago by Brian Hayward.
1 year 6 months ago #85971
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