Question about Sequence Gen Pro

barx1963 (Malcolm) · #1 29-11-2016, 12:36 AM

Had a frstrating night tonight. Drifting clouds meant that I kept losing my guide star. I was finding that when that happened after about 10 seconds or so, SGP would terminate the sequence. I wanted to find out how to stop that happening so it will chug on regardless as sometimes it may only have a few seconds to go and I would rather at least get to see the data and make mny own decision about rejecting than lose it altogether.

Any thoughts on why this happens?

Malcolm

glend (Glen) · #2 29-11-2016, 01:44 AM

I guide outside of SGP, with Metaguide, but PHD2 will do the same. If you don't control the guiding inside SGP the sequence will continue until you stop it or the sequence ends.

peter_4059 (Peter) · #3 29-11-2016, 06:39 AM

There's a setting in phd2. I think it is called star mass tolerance. From memory if you set this to 100 it attempts to keep guiding.

barx1963 (Malcolm) · #4 29-11-2016, 05:51 PM

Thanks Peter, will try.
Glen, I should have mentioned, I am using an off axis guider, so I want to run PHD from within SGP as that way it will turn off guiding while the system is refocussing. I have it set to refocus each time I change filters as I figure that ensures best quality and means it refocuses enough that I do not have to worry about the focus changing with temperature.

Anyway I will see what I can get working tonight!!

Malcolm