Just circling back. Any idea when this is going to be live? Im on stellarmate x86-64. Stable. Still on 3.6.9 with your binary instead.

Sorry! I was down with the flu for a week.
But I have good news: The day before yesterday the overhauled MR was merged again into current master. I suppose it's in 3.7.0beta nighty now.

Speaking out of ignorance... I'm a Stellarmate user; any idea how to get to the nightly builds or double check that I have thi patch installed? I'm on 1.8.1.

You can run update_kstars to compile GIT build

Jasem, doing this now. What does this do to the status of being in stable or beta branches? or future updates?

Thanks

Bryan

It took awhile as advertised... but, it definitely is the most recent build. Shows a 2024-02-15 23Z alpha build.

Thanks Jassem,

Chris

2024-02-15T19:17:15 Target is within acceptable range.
2024-02-15T19:17:15 Camera position angle is 114.739 degrees.
2024-02-15T19:17:15 Target is within 00° 00' 02" degrees of solution coordinates.
2024-02-15T19:17:15 Solution coordinates: RA (05h 36m 28s) DEC (-05° 22' 33") Telescope Coordinates: RA (05h 36m 01s) DEC (-05° 20' 30") Target Coordinates: RA (05h 36m 01s) DEC (-05° 20' 30")
2024-02-15T19:17:15 Effective telescope focal length is updated to 527.764 mm.
2024-02-15T19:17:15 Solver RA (83.81897) DEC (-5.38999) Orientation (-65.26130) Pixel Scale (1.46951) Parity (neg)
2024-02-15T19:17:15 Solver completed after 4.93 seconds.
2024-02-15T19:17:15 Image received.
2024-02-15T19:17:15 Capturing image...
2024-02-15T19:17:15 Slew complete. Target accuracy is not met, running solver again...
2024-02-15T19:17:15 Slewing to target coordinates: RA (05h 36m 01s) DEC (-05° 20' 30").
2024-02-15T19:17:15 Camera position angle is 114.738 degrees.
2024-02-15T19:17:15 Target is within 00° 07' 00" degrees of solution coordinates.
2024-02-15T19:17:15 Solution coordinates: RA (05h 36m 55s) DEC (-05° 24' 33") Telescope Coordinates: RA (05h 36m 28s) DEC (-05° 22' 32") Target Coordinates: RA (05h 36m 28s) DEC (-05° 22' 32")
2024-02-15T19:17:15 WCS information updated. Images captured from this point forward shall have valid WCS.
2024-02-15T19:17:15 Effective telescope focal length is updated to 527.778 mm.
2024-02-15T19:17:15 Solver RA (83.93035) DEC (-5.42320) Orientation (-65.26168) Pixel Scale (1.46947) Parity (neg)
2024-02-15T19:17:15 Solver completed after 5.21 seconds.

Toni, just wanted you to know it appears to be working on my 10u as well. Thank you so much for running this bug down... if you have a venmo or something PM me, I'd like to buy you some coffee at least.

Hey Toni,

drive.google.com/file/d/1g2eDTcC7lTfUXaT...Kic/view?usp=sharing

Logs here, should be downloadable. I'm not quite sure what happened. The scheduler never seemed to unpark the mount or attempted to wait for a meridian flip and never called for it. I'm not 100% sure that capture and slew is working or if it's some other shenanigans inside of scheduler.

Hopefully this helps.

Hey Toni,

drive.google.com/file/d/1g2eDTcC7lTfUXaT...Kic/view?usp=sharing

Logs here, should be downloadable. I'm not quite sure what happened. The scheduler never seemed to unpark the mount or attempted to wait for a meridian flip and never called for it. I'm not 100% sure that capture and slew is working or if it's some other shenanigans inside of scheduler.

Hopefully this helps.

Couldn't edit my last post... sorry for the duplication.

More details… I can’t figure out why but despite turning off park/unpark when I start a scheduled event it will go from in park.. slew to the target… start focusing. After the first image it decides to park. Then it keeps the location and fails to slew and solve on the alignment module.

I’m so confused right now.

The scheduler never seemed to unpark the mount or attempted to wait for a meridian flip and never called for it. I'm not 100% sure that capture and slew is working or if it's some other shenanigans inside of scheduler.

I'm sorry for the new problems with your mount. Strange that the log reports an unparked mount
[2024-02-15T19:49:31.974 CST INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.scheduler] - "Mount already unparked."

Log show that *differential slewing" calculations works ...
[2024-02-15T20:46:22.219 CST INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.align] - "Solver completed after 2.75 seconds."
[2024-02-15T20:46:22.221 CST INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.align] - "Solver RA (83.88582) DEC (-5.39144) Orientation (114.95440) Pixel Scale (1.46587) Parity (neg)"
[2024-02-15T20:46:22.271 CST DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.align] - Differential slew - Solution RA: "05h 36m 44s" DE: "-05° 22' 39\""
[2024-02-15T20:46:22.271 CST DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.align] - Differential slew - Destination RA: "05h 36m 28s" DE: "-05° 22' 32\""
....
[2024-02-15T20:46:22.311 CST DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.align] - Align state changed to "Successful"

... a command to move the mount is sent ....
[2024-02-15T20:46:22.331 CST DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.align] - Differential slew - Target RA: "05h 36m 12s" DE: "-05° 22' 25""
[2024-02-15T20:46:22.354 CST INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.align] - "Slewing to target coordinates: RA (05h 36m 12s) DEC (-05° 22' 25\")."

.... but then the mount reports
[2024-02-15T20:46:22.761 CST INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - LX200 10micron : "[ERROR] Error Slewing to JNow RA 5:36:11.95 - DEC -5:22:24.78 "
[2024-02-15T20:46:22.801 CST INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - LX200 10micron : "[ERROR] Object below horizon. "

How is this possible?

BTW, the scheduler is undergoing profound changes in 3.7.0beta. Perhaps it can help if you try to do a bare [Load&Slew] and compare this with the same cycle in the scheduler.

drive.google.com/file/d/1g2eDTcC7lTfUXaT...Kic/view?usp=sharing

Original file with more data.

drive.google.com/file/d/1V2vbAdONiOO89lb...5jA/view?usp=sharing
drive.google.com/file/d/1DpiHjLhoe7SaHAS...HT3/view?usp=sharing

More data. Did a reboot here to see if I'd got into some sort of loop and to try a new scheduler file instead of a previous version I was reloading. It didn't fix anything. I also tried a different object.

I guess my only input to what you discovered is in the last log file I posted I tried a different object and got the same result. I do have a 30 degree 'artificial horizon' but according to kstars map.. the object were above it.

I went to bed before I was able to try a 'load and slew'. I'll see if I can do that tonight if it's clear.