Hi!

I'm not sure if this is already doable, but here is my scenario: I leave the scope to capture for a few hours while I sleep. At times there are problems, like autofocus failing due to clouds and similar stuff. When this happens, the capture process is aborted - but the scope keeps tracking. And after a few hours, it reaches the limit, and starts beeeping. However, I sleep on the other side of the house, so it does not wake me up. But it disturbs the neighbours....

So my idea: is there a way to make Ekos park the scope on an abort? Or, to park the scope at a certain point in time, no matter what else has happened?

Magnus

I think it might already be able to do this using the scheduler. If you have everything running in the scheduler and then you set a condition of parking the scope upon termination that might do it. I cannot guarantee this since I haven't used the scheduler much yet, but I think that module was made to do things similar to what you are asking.

This is why I use the scheduler when I sleep indeed. On an error it aborts and parks (if you set it to do so), I also use it to put in the end time of a session so that it can't reach its limit.

OK, great! So I need to familiarize myself a bit with the scheduler. One thing there is that I tend to use PHD2 instead of the internal guider. Does that affect the way the scheduler works?

Magnus

Good question, I'm using PHD to polar align, but not with the scheduler. It should, theoretically, work I guess.