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How to repeat jobs created by mosaic planner ?

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Replied by Bart on topic How to repeat jobs created by mosaic planner ?

There was no logging active during that run, however tonight it's active: verbose, file etc.
The rest of the jobs ran smoothly, by the eay, so I suspect the hiccup from before was an edge case.
We'll see soon :)
For the rest I'm really pleased by how stable everything runs now, even on the Rpi4.
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Replied by Bart on topic How to repeat jobs created by mosaic planner ?

Tonight the hiccup happened again. I've enabled logging as you requested (verbose and all).

Each job has a sequence with 20 lights.
Starting conditions of the mosaic panels 1 to 4: 40, 24, 20, 20 lights respectively.
Result: 40, 41, 20, 20 lights.
What is strange: 41 lights in the second panel (starting at 24) not 40, not 44 (24+20)...

Please help me out, this is frustrating to say the least. (us Dutch people don't have the luxury of many clear nights ;) ).

Picture of the analysis tab:


Log, excerpt from the last actual light recieved (23:17:32) onward:
(I've put it in spoiler 'brackets' because then this post remains somewhat readable)
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Replied by Bart on topic How to repeat jobs created by mosaic planner ?

And for good measure the content of the scheduler (.esl) file:

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Replied by Fitchie on topic How to repeat jobs created by mosaic planner ?

@Bart,

Did you open/move/edit one or more FITS files during the running sequence ?

I've been struggling with the same problems as you since posting this topic some weeks ago and I'm starting to suspect that as soon as the timestamp or other file properties of the FITS file changes, the process starts acting weird.

Unfortunately we haven't had a clear night here yet to try again.
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Replied by Bart on topic How to repeat jobs created by mosaic planner ?

I first imaged M31 for a few lights, just for the heck of it (and waiting for full darkness).
Then opened the schedule, ran that, checking if focus, align and guidibg went well. It did, so I went home and left it running.
Didn't explicitly open one of the fits.
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Replied by Fitchie on topic How to repeat jobs created by mosaic planner ?

Please can anyone from the developers indicate whether opening FITS files has an impact on the numbering or more specifically on the strange numbers when creating a mosaic?
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Replied by Fitchie on topic How to repeat jobs created by mosaic planner ?

Quote Hy:

1- Set each of the 4 mosaic tile scheduler jobs to have the same non-empty group name, and set each of them to have the "Repeat until terminated" completion condition. Of course, to set that you need to double click on a job (the + above the table turns into a checkbox), make sure those two items are set properly, then click the checkbox above the scheduler queue table. It's a good idea to then save that schedule to disk so you can re-load it the next time.

Why should one double click every job? If the "Repeat until terminated" option is selected and the group name has been given in the mosaic planner, the created jobs looks fine.

What is the advantage to double click every job to have the "+" changed in a "v"?
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Replied by Bart on topic How to repeat jobs created by mosaic planner ?

Essentially he wants us to make sure that each job in that schedule has 'repeat until terminated' checked.

(And yes, of course they are)

My hunch is that it has to do with some condition where the 'imager' tab wants to keep going to finish the x images in the sequencer, and at the same time, the scheduler (greedy?) wants to stop that job in order to keep the number of images of the (four) jobs roughly equally fast growing.
It happened before only with the first job, the subsequent jobs go on very well. That's likely because the 'number of required images' is equal to the number of images in those subsequent sequences. Except for the first one to start for that evening.

Cheers!
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Replied by Fitchie on topic How to repeat jobs created by mosaic planner ?

I just started a 2 x 2 mosaic of the Pelican Nebula
Each time 15 shots of 60 seconds, completely according to the instructions.



Fingers crossed !
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Replied by Fitchie on topic How to repeat jobs created by mosaic planner ?

Only one night and some quick processing, so there is still work to be done.
But conceptually the mosaic and stitching was successful...

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Replied by Bart on topic How to repeat jobs created by mosaic planner ?

That looks good!

Now I wonder if another night proceeding with this schedule / job group it would also 'just keep going'.

For me, the issue occured recently again, twice in a night.
I have the logs, but would any dev still like to help out please? :)
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Replied by Hy Murveit on topic How to repeat jobs created by mosaic planner ?

If you have 'Repeat until terminated' checked for all your tile jobs then the same schedule should continue to collect images for all tiles.

If you have verbose logs to share, please post links to them along with your description of what problem you're reporting in as much detail as possible. I've alerted Wolfgang who is more familiar with what I think you're describing.

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