ACP päivitetty

[Arto Oksanen]

ACP ohjelma (etäkäyttö ja observatorion orkestrointi) on nyt päivitetty versioon 9.2.1 (joka on viimeinen versio joka ohjelmasta julkaistaan).

Kokeilkaas nyt etäkäyttöä. Käyttöliittymässä ei pitäisi olla suuria muutoksia.

ACP 9.2.1 Release Notes
Bug Fixes:

• Fix show-stoppers for focusers with temperature compensation and for Planewave Autofocus. Fossil variables left from refactoring.

ACP 9.2 Release Notes
Product Changes and Improvements:

• Dome azimuth calculations for telescope slaving have been replaced by a newer vector-based algorithm. This provides lateral and vertical OTA offsets to handle Planewave L-Mounts as well as multiple OTAs on a single mount with any mounting arrangement.
• Focuser position, and if available focuser temperature, are included in the FITS header and printed in the log. Camera temperature is printed in the log.
• Flat Plans may now specify individual camera readout modes on a per line basis.

Bug Fixes

• ACP Help Home Page now has correct version in title (ha ha)
• Relative Air mass is captured at image start time for the AIRMASS FITS field (per NASA convention)
• AutoFlat script was missing error code constant ERR_COVERCALFAILED. Caused CoverCalibrator error reporting to be broken.
• AutoFlat script did not honor the MaximumBrightness reported by the CoverCalibrator.
• AutoFlat script now turns CoverCalibrator completely off when complete. This prevents light escaping when opening the cover for units that emit light at brightness 0.

ACP 9.1 Release Notes
Product Changes and Improvements:

• The #shutdownat and #quitat directives now take a sun-down angle as well as a UTC date.
• AutoFlat process now supports separate target ADU values for each filter
• The Scheduler Single Series and Astro Image forms now support the new Scheduler feature where the Fixed-Time end time is used to force the series to end (early) at the given time.
• The web Scheduler Astro Imaging and Time Series forms have been enhanced to make them much more responsive for Fixed-Time Plans.
• Plan complier no longer allows multiple #shutdownat and/or #quitat directives in a plan.

Bug Fixes:

• When running observing plans from the web UI as a logged in user, #chain now succeeds when the current plan is in a subfolder, correctly looking for the chained-to plan in that same subfolder.
• Waits (for various reasons) of longer than 9 hours (> 32767 sec.) no longer fail. This was due to a Good Night System time out limitation. GNS will now be refreshed hourly.
• Fix infinite wait for #waituntil that expires more than 1 hour in the future. This was introduced with GNS additions in V9.
• The image simulation now uses the ACP Catalog Maximum Magnitude setting so that ATLAS catalog users will not get an error if they haven't downloaded all mag ranges.
• The LightOnDelay feature of automatic panel/screen flats has been fixed for the case where an ASCOM CoverCalibrator device is being used instead of a LightControlProgram.
• The Scheduler Single Series form is now called Time Series.

ACP 9.0 Release Notes

• This major release is a roll up of issues and new features that came up over the last year plus. There are no major architectural changes here, so you can be confident in the stability of this release.
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• note WARNING: If you are currently using the Lunatico Good Night System according to the ACP Integration directions in Section 4.5 of the GNS manual that was current as of May 2021, you must make the transition to the new integral GNS support in ACP. Details are given here in the GNS section of ACP Help.
• note Note: Weather inputs to ACP have been a source of instability in the past. With this new version, any error/exception coming from the weather provider will result in a "soft" failure which translates to unsafe weather. You will see plainly visible messages in the ACP console, and log files of in-progress observing runs. This new behavior is meant to help clarify and expose instability in the weather input.
• note Note: The ACP Scripting API has changed to provide for ASCOM flat illuminators and the new FocusMax MultiStar focusing mode. If you have an application that holds a hard-reference to ACP, you will need to rebuild it to be compatible with the new interfaces. Scripts and programs that use late binding will not be affected.
• note Note: Autofocus logs have been moved into their own folder in Documents\ACP Astronomy Logs\Autofocus. If you are upgrading, your existing AutoFocus log files have been moved there by the ACP installer.
• Product Changes and Improvements:
• ACP has new logic that allows selection to the new FocusMax V5 multi-star focusing feature as well as its AcquireStar feature.
• Built-in support for the Lunatico Good Night System has been added. The "Owl" service is accessible from ACP's scripting namespace, and when no script is running, ACP maintains the GNS status and heartbeat according to the observatory status.
• ACP now includes an ASCOM compatible weather input server that takes inputs from any ASCOM SafetyMonitor for its safe/unsafe status, and optionally from any ASCOM ObservingConditions server for its weather measurements.
• The ACP special scripts ACP-Weather.* and ACP-ScriptFail.* are now saved and restored with the ACP Profile.
• The ACP Plan language now allows the specification of a #filter for cal frames (darks and biases). This addresses the cameras that have no shutters or leaky shutters, forcing the use of an opaque filter for calibration frames.
• The file/folder customization for autoflat images now supports substitution of the filter name, the binning, and the position angle (PA) in the created folders.
• Plate solving in ACP has been changed to take advantage of the Gaussian PSF detector and hot-pixel remover of PinPoint. This not only provides more sensitivity for image star detection but also helps with Bayer matrix color images.
• The AutoFlat system now supports light panels that use an ASCOM CoverCalibrator driver as well as those that use command line programs as before.
• The web log viewer page now has a link at the top which can be used to download the log, along with instructions on how to download it.
• The Radar Weather item in the web UI now embeds the fancy new NWS weather radar display including direct support for user interactions.
• The web System System Status display, Guider section, now displays more detailed status during the guider startup process.
• The Aladin-Lite "Pictorial Camera Field" item in the web interface was improved to show the real camera dimensions and field. Thanks to ACP user John Ramdenee for this
• The logs from AutoFocus are now saved in Logs\Autofocus instead of Logs. The V9 installer will move existing log files into Logs\Autofocus.
• The FilterOffsets measurement script now re-slews to the optimum focus part of the sky after focusing for each filter. This assures the least airmass for every focus run, avoiding the situation where the scope drifts westward into thick air.
• When starting a run, the code for assuring FocusMax is running no longer waits for 5 seconds every time. It now checks a "FocusMax is ready" variable. If it is already running there is no delay at all.
• Support for FocusMax V3 has been removed.
• AutoFocus logs are now written to an AutoFocus subfolder instead of the the root Logs folder.
• The web authoring info on recovering from errors has been corrected and clarified in both the Authoring Environment as well as in ACP Help.
• Final image plate solving will no longer be attempted if doing orbital tracking. Streaked stars usually prevent it.
• The optional post-flat dew-avoidance slew now occurs whether or not the flat process is chaining to an ACP Plan. This addresses the common usage where flats are followed by evening observing, but with a wait until much darker. The optics are now protected during this time.
• The Slew-Sync window now accepts either local topocentric or J2000 coordinates per the state of the J2000 checkbox on the console. The coordinates input field is labeled as to which equinox is being used. This is not the same thing as the equinox of the coordinates needed by the telescope, and is a completely separate setting.
• A new control has been added to allow setting the PinPoint Catalog Maximum Magnitude. This was provided to allow for variably ATLAS magnitude bands being available, and to help large format/wide field cameras avoid maxing out PinPoint's catalog stars array. THe AcquireImages script now uses the Prefs.PointingUpdates.CatalogMaximumMagnitude property for this.
• ACP no longer supports FocusMax 3.x. You must be running 4.x or newer.
• The scripting info in help has been updated to refer to the more current VSCode and other tools that have superseded the formerly recommended ones. This is really worth your look.
• Auto-Flat documentation has been improved to make the post-flat slew feature more apparent and more general in its applications.
• The optional post-flat dew-avoidance slew may now have destination alt/az coordinates outside the ACP slew limitations. This makes it possible to slew to 0 elevation without needing to remove the protection of the ACP minimum elevation limit.
• When connecting the telescope and dome (they are integrated) errors coming from the Dome are now specifically prefixed with the fact that they are from the Dome and the error's "source" is also included.
• The creation of the web thumbnail and preview images has been sped up significantly (thanks to Dick Berg and Russ Croman).
• Allow graceful auto-disconnect from a mount when the mount's control program (exe ASCOM driver) completely disappears. No more popup and ACP exit from this.
• The PinPoint reference catalog selector now includes the new PinPoint 7-supported ATLAS All-Sky Stellar Reference Catalog and no longer includes UCAC2, UCAC3, B1.0 (internet) or NOVAS (internet). The deleted catalogs are either no longer available, obsolete, or not recommended.
• The logged choice of plat solving catalogs (with extra info) now says that A2.0 is "dated" and recommends UCAC4 and ATLAS.
• Bug Fixes:
• If the ACP profile info is deleted for some reason, and the demo period expired "long ago", the program will no longer fail with a Runtime Error 13. Instead it will offer to let you enter your license.
• The MPCComet tool has been fixed for corrupt CometEls.txt files seen to come from the MPC. Thanks to ACP users Dick Berg and Eric Dose for this.
• Due to PinPoint 7 having been fixed for AMBTEMP and TEMPERAT FITS mapped properties, ACP is now correctly writing the CCD Temperature (TEMPERAT) and ambient temperature from weather (AMBTEMP).
• If the weather input server raises an exception when reading its Safe property, it is no longer (rarely) fatal to ACP. Instead we have softened the effect of an exception from reading the Safe property of the weather server. The WEA light flashes rapidly red (failure, unsafe) and the exceptions are repeatedly written to the console. If the Weather.Safe exception is transient, the system will recover after the weather unsafe time.
• Rotated guiding when using the SBIF STX-16803 internal guide sensor has been corrected.
• The AAVSO Chart item in the web interface has been corrected to account for a change in Windows 10 security. Thank you Dick Berg!
• The Catalog Lookup in several web forms now handles Deep Sky objects with a "+" in their name. It was being converted to " " and lookup would fail.
• Comet lookup (CT xxxx) now works with comets whose name has no discoverer name in parentheses, e.g. A/2021 E4.
• The installer and the Repair Security feature both now open/reopen write access to users for MPCORB and MPCCOMET, allowing the web Update MPC tool to run on a Windows 10 system with full security.
• On very rare systems, if the system "tick count" starts with a large negative number, the Dome Control logic now properly starts its polling cycle.
• The PinPoint catalog selector button now defaults to the path shown in the path field not the saved path from the program settings. This was confusing. Also the pre-select would not work on the ATLAS catalog, presumably because of the 324,000 files in five subfolders. It worked on all of the other paths tested. The logic has been changed to use the Windows PID for the path as the pre-select.
• The internal timer interrupt source has been changed to use the Windows Multimedia Timer. This was made necessary by long-interval timing for Good Night System.
• The web service account management API no longer creates the obsolete UserData keys in ACP's settings, and it will now properly delete an old UserData key when a user's account is deleted.
• A bug where the AutoFocus AcquireStar process (only) would not use the faint and bright focus star limits from FilterInfo table has been fixed. In the past it would use the limits set in the FocusMax settngs. Now those mags for the reference filter (used for focusing) are properly set from the FilterInfo table.
• A long time rare bug in the Actve Server Page Response.End() method has been fixed. There was an event leak tahta could allow for re-entrancy under rare conditions.
• Fix AutoFlat for multiple AutoFlat run with GEM & rotator using panel flats when the LST is over 18 hours. Ranging of RA used 360 not 24.
• The image duration sanity timer has been given a larger "slop" factor, from 120 to 300 seconds for Alpaca delays.
• Correct the #defocus directive documentation to explain that it persists across images in a given filter.
• Errors from the Dome system when commanded from the ACP Dome Control Panel no longer cause an uncaught error and exit of ACP.
• Documentation for the file and folder customization on AutoFlat images has been corrected by removing some very old and superseded info.
• The ACP program will no longer "go to sleep" if a scope is parked or unparked externally then unparked or parked (respectively) from within ACP.
• Prevent run start failures on some Windows Language/Locales from format clashes when reading and writing the date/time when the last filter was used.
• The bright star search algorithm now uses PinPoint's internal magnitude filtering during the catalog search, decreasing the time need for selection.
• The bright star search function now reports the detailed error from trying to look up stars from the PinPoint catalog. It could be something other than no stars in the range, like a bad catalog!
• A very rare sec of conditions when solving plates with a damaged image that resulted in an infinite loop has been corrected.
• A rare bug in the licensing crypto logic (C++) has been fixed.
• An old quirk in the utility/test AutoFocus.vbs script has been fixed. If a FilterInfo table is available, this script will not ask for the filter to use. It will always use the reference filter as defined in the FilterInfo table.
• The SkyTools support now has a special RTML uploader that tags Projects as belonging to SkyTools via Project.ExternalID.
• The SHUTTER ERROR annunciator light on the Dome Control panel is now red in color. The deep blue color was a bug (long standing!).
• Fix the Console AskYesNo() and ReadLine() methods so that the "No" button will be re-shown after being hidden by an OkOnly call.
• Updated the instructions for registering WSC components for newer Windows OS that have UAC security.
• Connecting to a V1 Telescope is again supported. It was looking for AtPark which is not in the V1 interface.
• The FindLostScope script has been corrected for a typo ion Declination. This could cause large errors!
• Profile save will refuse if the ACP Version is corrupted. We had one customer with a corrupted version and it is essential to successful profile save/restore.
• The web log viewer ASP was causing the degree symbol (UTF 0xB0) from ACP to display as a diamond-?, the "missing character" symbol within the HTML <pre> area in which the text is displayed verbatim. I could not find a way to do this so I substituted "d" for degrees.

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Arto Oksanen
arto.o...@jklsirius.fi
Muurame, Finland

[Arto Oksanen]

Ei auttanut kaatumisiin. ACP kaatui (katosi ilman virheilmoituksia) jo kertaalleen. 

arto 

[Harri Kiiskinen]

Mie kokeilin ajaa valikosta MPC-päivityksen, olikohan se syyllinen? 

- Harri

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