Sorry Ray we are not communicating......Step by step.... i was imaging M76 when weather pause occurred....Mount was parked for about a hour (APCC confirms) When weather cleared....CCDCommander told

No automated rotator, but I have a dovetail type (w/ 3 screws) rotating adapter from my Vixen FL55ss drawtube to M48. I manually set the camera angle using levels or the BuckeyeStarGazer's triple

Dave, Did you look at the log you posted? At the top of the log: CCDCommander 23:32:42 Starting imager exposure (6 of 6). 23:40:33 Very cloudy condition detected! Pausing Action List.23:40:33

I do unguided imaging and I do it when I notice that my stars start to appear oval. It happens when the temperature changes significantly from winter to summer, if I did the modeling during a cold

i'll give that a try. May be a week or two before I can.

Is it possible that after slewing to M76, a "park" was issued and before ASCOM/driver could respond or the mount move, there was a slew issued? dave

Well, in any event it sounds like its not serious. Thanks for looking.

thanks,,,,but a question because i am still confused......according to APCC log.....the mount had slewed to M76 and "at park" was true...and when told to slew to Sh2-234 got the exception because it

I think this says it all! The mount needs to be unparked before attempting a slew. -Ray

It sounds like the ASCOM hub is blocking APCC in some way. I'll see if it is possible to move the hub off to another thread so they won't interfere. If I can do that, it will be in the next

Marty, Can you expose a little longer, say 10 seconds, to get a deeper image? -Ray

The mount is parked and is being asked to slew. That is not a legal operation. Matt should unpark the mount if it is parked and CCD Commander wants to slew the mount. 335589 2021-11-03 01:59:07.122:

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Should this be done seasonally? (For those of us in northern climates?) Should this be done after updating a PEC curve? Should this be done after changing controllers? Should this be done after a

For the record, last night's Park 3 was bang on the alignment notches.

Hi Ray, I am getting this error from ASCOM/driver "check_connected: Exception : bMustNotBeParked and g_bParked: True, True : SlewToCoordinatesAsyn" Do you have any insight on this exception and

The accuracy of the the 1st GoTo is very minor to me, as it is easily corrected. My main concern is having the best reference point for the camera levels to set camera rotation, as that will impact

Ray. It seems to happen when I am either accessing or closing the ASCOM Hub Properties. I switchde from using the ASCOM Hub to the ASCOM Lunatico driver and I dont seem to get the error anymore.

Hi Ray... I have not tried the automatic TPoint modeling methodology yet. To my uneducated eyes, it seems the problem is that the platesolving routines, given the very low FoV, cannot identify enough

Mark, The slight offset is due to ReCals that may have been done during the course of the night. The next night when you resume from Last Parked, your GoTo to the first object will be more