Hi Folks,

I'm using Ekos with PHD2 guiding and am running into an issue with the guide star being lost. I'm using an OAG and this typically happens after an automated refocus event where due to drift and/or mirror movement the original guide star has moved outside the guide star box and PHD2 can't find it. I've already set the box size to maximum (50 pix) which helped make this less frequent, but did not solve the issue. When this does happen, I get logs like the one below that just keep cycling trying to require the original guide star.

Is there a way to setup the guider module in Ekos so that after a timeout period it will reset and command PHD2 to select a new guide star?

Thanks!
-Bret

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2022-08-16T01:34:43 PHD2: Guiding started.
2022-08-16T01:34:38 PHD2: Star Lost. Trying to reacquire for 60s.
2022-08-16T01:34:31 Autoguiding started.
2022-08-16T01:34:31 PHD2: Guiding started.
2022-08-16T01:34:05 PHD2: Star Lost. Trying to reacquire for 60s.
2022-08-16T01:33:52 Autoguiding started.
2022-08-16T01:33:52 PHD2: Guiding started.
2022-08-16T01:33:46 PHD2: Star Lost. Trying to reacquire for 60s.
2022-08-16T01:33:40 Autoguiding started.
2022-08-16T01:33:40 PHD2: Guiding started.
2022-08-16T01:33:35 PHD2: Star Lost. Trying to reacquire for 60s.
2022-08-16T01:33:16 Autoguiding started.
2022-08-16T01:33:16 PHD2: Guiding started.
2022-08-16T01:32:58 PHD2: Star Lost. Trying to reacquire for 60s.
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