After using Framing & Mozaic Wizard to create a sequence, and starting the run, SGP aborts after the blind plate solve and when attempting to restart PHD2 guiding.
Aprox time of issue: [03/21/20 20:22:11.160]
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Here are a few screen shots that show the situation:
SGP says “Resuming the auto guider”
PHD2 is guiding …
SGP aborts and says guider is not running, but it is …
OS: Microsoft Windows 10 Enterprise Ver: 3.1.0.457 .NET: 4.8
Just a guess: Look at your settings and see if there’s a value for “settle at <” under the autoguider tab on equipment profile or control panel. It may be that PHD did not settle down enough, in time. But, I’m only guessing.
So… that still might not be the cause of your troubles… but note: Your setting wants 1 tenth of a pixel which is pretty damned tight guiding, while the portion of the graph you show in the picture you posted shows the RA guiding swinging by more than a third of a pixel, so that was out of bounds. And, that value is not bad, (to my way of thinking, though with your equipment it might be unacceptable, I couldn’t say), but that could just be the seeing at that time, rather than anything in particular wrong with the guiding or the mount. As the good Doctor Ju Ju suggests, moving to a higher setting, (tolerating more jitter), might solve the issue.
One of the Moderators or Developers could weigh in on whether or not the precise error message you got could have been a result of guiding not settling quickly enough.
First, thank you for the tip … I will try changing those settings tonight and update this thread. I am using a ZWO ASI120MM-S on a 60mm Orion guide scope (240mm FL), so I am trying to find settings that work best with that equipment. I am going to try 0.5 pixels at 5 seconds.
Tonight I am going to try a very basic set of SGP tasks so the log file will be straight forward and not have a lot of “fiddling around” trying new settings.
And second, a really big thank you the image of your log reader. I went to the cetialpha5 site, and downloaded a copy. Great tool!
It appears that SGP made it through the blind solve and then tried to restart the guiding. But then it just sat there waiting for PHD2. After several minutes, I looked at PHD2 and saw that it was guiding merrily away (no lost stars). After several more minutes, SGP aborted the sequence.
To be honest, I am getting really frustrated. I have been working for weeks trying to get my first successful sequence to complete, but have never got all the way to the end before an error. I have done several settings tweaks which seem to help move it along, but this app seems to be way too touchy and requires many things to be perfect before it will run.
Help from the developers will be greatly appreciated … thanks,