Guiding lost, end of sequence
Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2024 7:29 am
Hello Robin,
I was planning for a long session to image M81 last night (with and without filter to compare). I am using the sequence planner.
Everything went fine until after the automatic meridian flip, at around 01h56.
The guiding state became 'Current guiding state is Looping' while running step Start guiding if necessary' at 01:56:59. And at 01:57:31, the sequence started the shutdown process after receiving the message 'PHD2 has been stuck in state Looping for 31s'.
I don't know exactly what happened with the guiding at that moment (couldn't find a star from the PHD2 log attached), but I am wondering how I can make my sequence more robust so that I give much more time for PHD2 to recover the situation (maybe waiting for clouds to disappear).
Many thanks for your support.
Cheers,
Eric.
I was planning for a long session to image M81 last night (with and without filter to compare). I am using the sequence planner.
Everything went fine until after the automatic meridian flip, at around 01h56.
The guiding state became 'Current guiding state is Looping' while running step Start guiding if necessary' at 01:56:59. And at 01:57:31, the sequence started the shutdown process after receiving the message 'PHD2 has been stuck in state Looping for 31s'.
I don't know exactly what happened with the guiding at that moment (couldn't find a star from the PHD2 log attached), but I am wondering how I can make my sequence more robust so that I give much more time for PHD2 to recover the situation (maybe waiting for clouds to disappear).
Many thanks for your support.
Cheers,
Eric.