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Autoguiding aborted when it is not....?

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Hi!

I'm a bit confused by this. Running Scheduler, and exposures are aborted with the message "autoguiding aborted", then restarted. I use PHD2. But the guding was NOT aborted, not that I can see. And no reason for it, a clear star and working well.

Anyone can help me understand what is going on here?

Logs attached from Kstars and PHD2.

Magnus
4 years 1 week ago #50928
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Hi Magnus,
could you be a little more specific when it happened? In the log file there are several events when PHD reports "Guiding Stopped":
[2020-03-19T19:17:47.417 CET DEBG ][     org.kde.kstars.ekos.guide] - PHD2: event: "{\"Event\":\"ConfigurationChange\",\"Timestamp\":1584641867.412,\"Host\":\"stellarmate4\",\"Inst\":1}\r\n"
[2020-03-19T19:17:47.418 CET INFO ][     org.kde.kstars.ekos.guide] - "Unknown PHD2 event: ConfigurationChange"
[2020-03-19T19:17:47.419 CET DEBG ][     org.kde.kstars.ekos.guide] - PHD2: event: "{\"Event\":\"GuidingStopped\",\"Timestamp\":1584641867.412,\"Host\":\"stellarmate4\",\"Inst\":1}\r\n"
[2020-03-19T19:17:47.419 CET INFO ][     org.kde.kstars.ekos.guide] - "PHD2: Guiding Stopped."
[2020-03-19T19:17:47.421 CET DEBG ][   org.kde.kstars.ekos.capture] - Guiding state changed from "Guiding" to "Aborted"
[2020-03-19T19:17:47.421 CET INFO ][     org.kde.kstars.ekos.guide] - "Autoguiding aborted."

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4 years 1 week ago #50930

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Hi!

I happened several times, mid exposure.

But I solved it. It was my dither setttings that were off, causing ekos to abort exposure when guiding deviated some, far into the exposure.

So: problem solved!

Magnus
4 years 1 week ago #50943

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Hi Magnus

So what dithering settings did you settle on in the end?
FWIW, below are the dither settings that I currently have

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Hi!

Here's mine. Seems to work OK.



Best,

Magnus
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