mikeE
mikeE replied to the topic 'Re:Re:Re:Re:Meridian Flip fails with EQ6r-Pro and Kstars' in the forum. 3 years ago

Morning Eric,
No, The issue is still there. Yesterday I upgraded phd2 to the latest release just out of desperation. I did that because something odd happened during the day yesterday. With the roof closed I pointed the scope where it would do a flip and sure enough it flipped. Then I realised phd2 wasn't running. So I repeated the test with phd2 running(but not guiding) and it still did the flip. But last night, sure as anything with the scope synced and tracking, phd2 guiding and taking pics, the flip failed again. Here is the snippet of log:

Meridian flip: slewing to RA= "01h 35m 02s" DEC= " 30° 46' 04\"" Hour Angle "00h 01m 03s"
[2020-12-05T20:57:57.282 CST INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.mount] - "Meridian flip started."
[2020-12-05T20:57:57.285 CST DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - ISD:Telescope: TRACK
[2020-12-05T20:57:57.287 CST DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - ISD:Telescope sending coords RA: "01h 35m 02s" ( 1.58407 ) DE: " 30° 46' 04\"" ( 30.768 )
[2020-12-05T20:57:57.288 CST INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.mount] - "Meridian flip slew started..."
[2020-12-05T20:57:57.332 CST INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - EQMod Mount : "[INFO] Starting Goto RA=1.58407 DE=30.768 (current RA=3.87842 DE=26.9616) "
[2020-12-05T20:57:57.333 CST INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - EQMod Mount : "[INFO] GOTO ALign Nearest: delta RA = -21.705849, delta DEC = -3.803392 "
[2020-12-05T20:57:57.333 CST INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - EQMod Mount : "[INFO] Aligned Eqmod Goto RA=-20.1218 DE=26.9646 (target RA=1.58407 DE=30.768) "
[2020-12-05T20:57:57.334 CST INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - EQMod Mount : "[INFO] Setting Eqmod Goto RA=-20.1218 DE=26.9646 (target RA=1.58407 DE=30.768) "
[2020-12-05T20:57:57.335 CST INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - EQMod Mount : "[INFO] Slewing mount: RA increment = 147, DE increment = 77 "
[2020-12-05T20:57:57.362 CST INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - EQMod Mount : "[INFO] Slewing to RA: 1:35:03 - DEC: 30:46:05 "
[2020-12-05T20:57:57.363 CST INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.guide] - "PHD2: Guiding Stopped."
[2020-12-05T20:57:57.366 CST INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.guide] - "Autoguiding aborted."
[2020-12-05T20:57:57.616 CST WARN ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.capture] - Skipping flat/dark cap since it is not connected.
[2020-12-05T20:57:57.668 CST INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - EQMod Mount : "[INFO] Iterative Goto (1): RA diff = 86399.66 arcsecs DE diff = 0.01 arcsecs "
[2020-12-05T20:57:57.668 CST INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - EQMod Mount : "[INFO] Iterative goto (1): slew mount to RA increment = -36, DE increment = 0 "
[2020-12-05T20:57:57.783 CST INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.guide] - "PHD2: Guiding started."
[2020-12-05T20:57:57.786 CST INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.guide] - "Autoguiding started."
[2020-12-05T20:57:58.626 CST WARN ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.capture] - Skipping flat/dark cap since it is not connected.
[2020-12-05T20:57:58.683 CST INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - EQMod Mount : "[INFO] Iterative Goto (2): RA diff = 86401.01 arcsecs DE diff = 0.01 arcsecs "
[2020-12-05T20:57:58.684 CST INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - EQMod Mount : "[INFO] Iterative goto (2): slew mount to RA increment = 109, DE increment = 0 "
[2020-12-05T20:57:59.207 CST DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - processBLOB() mode 2
[2020-12-05T20:57:59.299 CST INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.guide] - "PHD2: Guiding Stopped."
[2020-12-05T20:57:59.302 CST INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.guide] - "Autoguiding aborted."
[2020-12-05T20:57:59.627 CST WARN ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.capture] - Skipping flat/dark cap since it is not connected.
[2020-12-05T20:57:59.698 CST INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - EQMod Mount : "[INFO] Iterative Goto (3): RA diff = 86401.01 arcsecs DE diff = 0.01 arcsecs "
[2020-12-05T20:57:59.698 CST INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - EQMod Mount : "[INFO] Iterative goto (3): slew mount to RA increment = 108, DE increment = 0 "
[2020-12-05T20:58:00.628 CST WARN ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.capture] - Skipping flat/dark cap since it is not connected.
[2020-12-05T20:58:00.714 CST INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - EQMod Mount : "[INFO] Iterative Goto (4): RA diff = 86401.02 arcsecs DE diff = 0.01 arcsecs "
[2020-12-05T20:58:00.715 CST INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - EQMod Mount : "[INFO] Iterative goto (4): slew mount to RA increment = 109, DE increment = 0 "
[2020-12-05T20:58:01.629 CST WARN ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.capture] - Skipping flat/dark cap since it is not connected.
[2020-12-05T20:58:01.730 CST INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - EQMod Mount : "[INFO] Iterative Goto (5): RA diff = 86401.01 arcsecs DE diff = 0.01 arcsecs "
[2020-12-05T20:58:01.731 CST INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - EQMod Mount : "[INFO] Iterative goto (5): slew mount to RA increment = 109, DE increment = 0 "
[2020-12-05T20:58:02.631 CST WARN ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.capture] - Skipping flat/dark cap since it is not connected.
[2020-12-05T20:58:02.749 CST INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - EQMod Mount : "[INFO] Iterative Goto (6): RA diff = 86401.01 arcsecs DE diff = 0.01 arcsecs "
[2020-12-05T20:58:02.750 CST INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - EQMod Mount : "[INFO] Iterative Goto Limit reached (6 iterations): RA diff = 86401.01 arcsecs DE diff = 0.01 arcsecs "
[2020-12-05T20:58:02.754 CST INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - EQMod Mount : "[INFO] Telescope slew is complete. Tracking TRACK_SIDEREAL... "
[2020-12-05T20:58:03.284 CST WARN ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.mount] - Meridian flip failed, pier side not changed
[2020-12-05T20:58:03.285 CST INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.mount] - "meridian flip failed, retrying in 4 minutes"
[2020-12-05T20:58:03.286 CST INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.mount] - "Meridian flip completed."
[2020-12-05T20:58:03.289 CST INFO ][ org.kde.kstars.ekos.capture] - "Telescope completed the meridian flip."

It just kills me to see the mount working and slewing just fine but not doing the flip. The timestamps on the events are only like 6 seconds from start to fail.

I jut compared last nights logs (which the flip failed) to an earlier log(which th flip was succesful on Nov. 7th) and notied these lines:

[2020-12-05T20:57:57.285 CST DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - ISD:Telescope: TRACK
[2020-12-05T20:57:57.287 CST DEBG ][ org.kde.kstars.indi] - ISD:Telescope sending coords RA: "01h 35m 02s" ( 1.58407 ) DE: " 30° 46' 04\"" ( 30.768 )

What is this item indi is calling an ISD:Telesope? These lines are not in the succesful log file from Nov. 7th.

This is driving me crazy! Thanks again for your help on this. I dont have much more hair I can pull out.

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