Tests are underway and it looks very promising!
invent.kde.org/education/kstars/-/merge_requests/1125

Toni, do you think this addresses the potential scheduler issue? It seems that the fix is causing the scheduler to get stuck on the last goto target.

Tha ks

Bryan

do you think this addresses the potential scheduler issue?
Yes, it does! This new MR includes a lot of changes including a rectification of the "last target bug". Additionally I restored the traditional mount policy after a consultation with the KStars team: Non valid target coordinates are automatically replaced with the current position coordinates of the mount. That means it is possible to invoke a [Capture & Solve] with option "Slew to Target" even directly after unparking the mount or directly after having moved the mount by hand. I admit this is a very good solution for a non valid target.

I'm now in the middle of a test phase and I hope the changes can be integrated soon for a good end of a long story.

This is awesome! Do you have a current binary? Id love to make use of the waning moon. Im on stellarmate now, but still X86_64 so what you were doing before would be suitable I believe.

Thank you for all your hard work. Open source has got to be both rewarding and frustrating at the same time. Then add astrophotography, and the joypain is doubled!

Bryan

The x86_64 binary as always (based on master of yesterday):
KStars binary UBUNTU 22.04 x86_64 -> invent.kde.org/escriban/kstars/-/issues/1

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.