Dirk replied to the topic 'New Polar Alignment Scheme and Features' in the forum. 3 years ago

Finally I got a few logs:

[2021-02-21T19:07:36.162 CET INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.align] - "Number of Matches: 34"
[2021-02-21T19:07:36.163 CET INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.align] - "Solved with index: 4209"
[2021-02-21T19:07:36.165 CET INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.align] - "Field center: (RA,Dec) = (88.7944, 7.40904) deg."
[2021-02-21T19:07:36.166 CET INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.align] - "Field center: (RA H:M:S, Dec D:M:S) = (05:55:10.647, +07:24:32.542)."
[2021-02-21T19:07:36.167 CET INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.align] - "Field is: (1023.19, -1.60195) deg from search coords."
[2021-02-21T19:07:36.168 CET INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.align] - "Field size: 2.35378 x 1.77885 degrees"
[2021-02-21T19:07:36.169 CET INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.align] - "Pixel Scale: 1.82006\""
[2021-02-21T19:07:36.171 CET INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.align] - "Field rotation angle: up is 82.5178 degrees E of N"
[2021-02-21T19:07:36.172 CET INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.align] - "Field parity: neg\n"
[2021-02-21T19:07:36.173 CET INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.align] - "Solver completed after 0.55 seconds."
[2021-02-21T19:07:36.174 CET INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.align] - "Solver RA (88.79436) DEC (7.40904) Orientation (82.51781) Pixel Scale (1.82006)"
[2021-02-21T19:07:36.188 CET INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.align] - "Solution coordinates: RA (05h 56m 19s) DEC ( 07° 24' 38\") Telescope Coordinates: RA (05h 56m 19s) DEC ( 07° 24' 31\")"
[2021-02-21T19:07:36.219 CET INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - ZWO CCD ASI1600MM Pro : "[INFO] CCD FOV rotation updated to 82.5178 degrees. "

Up to here, I slewed to a star, a bit east of the meridian, I think it was Beteigeuze...


[2021-02-21T19:07:57.046 CET DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.mount] - Mount status changed from "Tracking" to "Idle"

Here I had to stop tracking manually, because the "start" button was greyed out.

[2021-02-21T19:08:16.485 CET INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.align] - "Starting Polar Alignment Assistant process v2.3 ..."
[2021-02-21T19:08:16.485 CET DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - ISD:Telescope: UnParking...

[2021-02-21T19:08:16.497 CET INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.align] - "Capturing image..."
[2021-02-21T19:08:16.535 CET INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - iOptron CEM25 : "[INFO] Telescope already unparked. "
[2021-02-21T19:08:18.046 CET DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.mount] - Mount status changed from "Idle" to "Tracking"
[2021-02-21T19:08:20.569 CET DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - processBLOB() mode 4
[2021-02-21T19:08:20.898 CET INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.align] - "Image received."
[2021-02-21T19:08:20.904 CET INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.align] - "Automatically downsampling the image by 3"
[2021-02-21T19:08:20.946 CET INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.align] - "Evaluating Installed RAM for inParallel Option. Total Size of Index files: 1.22301 GB, Installed RAM: 7.36862 GB, Free RAM: 4.33127 GB"
[2021-02-21T19:08:20.948 CET INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.align] - "There should be enough RAM to load the indexes in parallel."
[2021-02-21T19:08:20.950 CET INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.align] - "+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++"
[2021-02-21T19:08:20.951 CET INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.align] - "Starting Internal StellarSolver Sextractor with the 4-SmallScaleSolving profile . . ."
[2021-02-21T19:08:21.101 CET INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.align] - "Stars Found before Filtering: 355"
[2021-02-21T19:08:21.103 CET INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.align] - "Removing the stars with a/b ratios greater than 1.5"
[2021-02-21T19:08:21.104 CET INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.align] - "Keeping just the 50 brightest stars"
[2021-02-21T19:08:21.105 CET INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.align] - "Stars Found after Filtering: 50"
[2021-02-21T19:08:21.107 CET INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.align] - "+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++"
[2021-02-21T19:08:21.108 CET INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.align] - "Configuring StellarSolver"
[2021-02-21T19:08:21.404 CET INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.align] - "Scale range: 85.3931 to 169.428 arcmin wide"
[2021-02-21T19:08:21.406 CET INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.align] - "Image width: 4656 pixels, Downsampled Image width: 1552 pixels; arcsec per pixel range: 3.30128 to 6.55004"
[2021-02-21T19:08:21.408 CET INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.align] - "+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++"
[2021-02-21T19:08:21.409 CET INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.align] - "Starting Internal StellarSolver Astrometry.net based Engine with the 4-SmallScaleSolving profile. . ."
[2021-02-21T19:08:21.463 CET INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.align] - "+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++"
[2021-02-21T19:08:21.484 CET INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.align] - "Solve Log Odds: 104.543"
[2021-02-21T19:08:21.486 CET INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.align] - "Number of Matches: 17"
[2021-02-21T19:08:21.487 CET INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.align] - "Solved with index: 4211"
[2021-02-21T19:08:21.488 CET INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.align] - "Field center: (RA,Dec) = (88.8818, 7.40959) deg."
[2021-02-21T19:08:21.489 CET INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.align] - "Field center: (RA H:M:S, Dec D:M:S) = (05:55:31.642, +07:24:34.538)."
[2021-02-21T19:08:21.490 CET INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.align] - "Field is: (1013.82, -3.59769) deg from search coords."
[2021-02-21T19:08:21.492 CET INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.align] - "Field size: 2.35346 x 1.77875 degrees"
[2021-02-21T19:08:21.493 CET INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.align] - "Pixel Scale: 1.81989\""
[2021-02-21T19:08:21.494 CET INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.align] - "Field rotation angle: up is 82.5068 degrees E of N"
[2021-02-21T19:08:21.495 CET INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.align] - "Field parity: neg\n"
[2021-02-21T19:08:21.497 CET INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.align] - "Solver completed after 0.55 seconds."
[2021-02-21T19:08:21.498 CET INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.align] - "Solver RA (88.88184) DEC (7.40959) Orientation (82.50679) Pixel Scale (1.81989)"
[2021-02-21T19:08:21.499 CET INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.align] - "Solution coordinates: RA (05h 56m 40s) DEC ( 07° 24' 39\") Telescope Coordinates: RA (05h 56m 39s) DEC ( 07° 24' 31\")"
[2021-02-21T19:08:21.507 CET INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.align] - "Please wait while WCS data is processed..."
[2021-02-21T19:08:21.547 CET INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - ZWO CCD ASI1600MM Pro : "[INFO] CCD FOV rotation updated to 82.5068 degrees. "
[2021-02-21T19:08:25.831 CET INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.align] - "WCS data processing is complete."


After that, polar alignment performs great....

I think, that when you change the step size from 30 degree to e.g. 20, then Tracking stops automatically and the start button becomes active, but after the initial slew and without changing the default parameters, the start button keeps being disabled, which is understandable, because how should the software know, that a polar alignment is "wanted"... .

Regards

Dirk

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