Update on the Auto Focus (AF) “IsMoving” bug. Last night the clear skies God was looking favorably upon us North East Ohio folks and I was able to test out the fix that Ken made to the AF “IsMoving” bug in V3.0.0.4. and the bug appears to be fixed. AF is now waiting for the “IsMoving” before kicking off the AF image request. I am getting the best V-curves I’ve ever gotten with this Camera/Scope. However, I did find I needed a 2 second delay that I was able to do using Gene’s The nSTEP ASCOM Driver that he integrated a user input delay into his focuser driver 6.0.7. Anything less than 1.5 seconds and I was not getting a very good V-cure graph so I landed on 2 seconds to be on the safe side. See before and after graphs below:
Before fix
After fix with no delay
After fix with 2 second delay
I still believe adding a user input delay into the AF would be a benefit. As I believe any mechanical that is moving, ie Telescope, Filter Wheel, Focuser, and Rotator would all benefit.
I wish to thank Gene and Ken for their work on finding and fixing the bug!
BTW Ken you are not going to believe this but now I am seeing that the camera is taking images before the rotator stops. I’ll post this on another thread later but see image below. Maybe when you fixed tor AF bug something got broke between the rotator and camera.
Since I might be the only one using V3.0.0.4 no one else has found this.
Regards,
Mark