As if things couldn’t get more confusing…
Last night (11/1) I ran two targets, SH2-175 and NGC 2359. The targets had Declinations of (+64° 46’ 05") and (-13° 13’ 36") respectively. The RA shouldn’t matter, but they were (00h 28m 58s) and (07h 18m 30s), again respectively.
The first target, SH2-175, failed the meridian flip at ≈ 20:42hrs (DST) including the setting of 7 minutes past meridian in SGP, and 2° (8 minutes) in iOptron Commander past meridian. After the fail I reset the failed sequence and the CEM60 then happily slewed and centered on the target and resumed imaging.
The second target, NGC2359, while I sat at the laptop ready to reset the sequence, successfully flipped at ≈ 04:41hrs (CST…time switch!), including the setting of 7 minutes past meridian in SGP, slewed and centered, and resumed imaging.
ALL SGP SEQUENCE, IOPTRON COMMANDER, and PHD2 setting were unchanged in the least between these two flip attempts. No equipment changes were made (cables, alignment, zero position, balance, etc). I believe it states in the logs that I was using SGP v. 4.0.0.617, but I’ll mention it here.
I haven’t studied the logs yet…(still recovering from hurricane Zeta’s tirade) …though I did read through them and DIDN’T see the “Same Side of Pier” error that plagued earlier attempts.
I am at a loss to explain this.
The SGP, iOptron Commander, and the PHD2 logs for the failure AND the success are here in a zip file (7 logs):
https://www.dropbox…201851.zip?dl=0
Do you see any suspects?