GUIDE ASSISTANCE, POLAR ALIGNMENT ERROR

[ROY MIXON]

Hello

Please have a look at the screen shot, "polar alignment error". Why does it contain so many numbers, arc-min. 9121758847799296.0, never seen this before.  I have ran guide assistant before, the arc-min always in range 4-5 arc min.

Equipment;  Svbony 503 ED refractor, 0.8x FFR = f/4.8, FL=336mm

Svbony Guide scope SV198 / 206mm, Svbony guide camera 905c

Thanks,

Roy 

[ROY MIXON]

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VY3hBh_2BaIQcXBUXzx-7Os0Rcn7l6oH/view?usp=drive_link

just in case the debug log file didn't come thru.  here is the google link.

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[ROY MIXON]

Hello

Please have a look at the screen shot, "polar alignment error". Why does it contain so many numbers, arc-min. 9121758847799296.0, never seen this before.  I have ran guide assistant before, the arc-min always in range 4-5 arc min.

Equipment;  Svbony 503 ED refractor, 0.8x FFR = f/4.8, FL=336mm

Svbony Guide scope SV198 / 206mm, Svbony guide camera 905c

Thanks,

Roy 

Debug, Guide log, screen shot attached

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AJ0SC1jNtdBK_Mm0rHsdlFH2JvRt6x-q/view?usp=drive_link

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VY3hBh_2BaIQcXBUXzx-7Os0Rcn7l6oH/view?usp=drive_link

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kpTA6SUGy8lZVXCvHeCJdS0RkxMMiXOR/view?usp=drive_link

[Bruce Waddington]

It looks like you were running with shift-lock enabled, presumably because your imaging application (NINA) was trying to track a comet. None of the PHD2 calibration or Guiding Assistant operations are going to work correctly in this mode because the mount is being continually moved in both RA and Dec. Calibration and Guiding Assistant operations assume that the mount is being operated "normally", meaning it is tracking only in RA at the sidereal rate. If you want to perform those operations, you need to disable comet-tracking in your imaging app.  If you are trying to do comet-tracking you should be working with a separate profile from the one you use for normal imaging.

If you need help going forward, follow the instructions we give everyone for using the Upload Logs feature in PHD2:

https://openphdguiding.org/getting-help/

Regards,

Bruce

[ROY MIXON]

Bruce

Does that explain why the so many numbers, arc-min. 9121758847799296.0, never seen this before

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[Bruce Waddington]

Probably.