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There is no Ascom function (and no Indi too) to know if the telescope reach some limit. So as seen from CCDciel the telescope will probably stop tracking or maybe be parked, depending on how this is configured in the driver or the handpad. What your mount do when it reach the limits? But I think the best is to not let the mount go to the limits, this must be seen as a security feature, not an operational one. There is function in CCDciel that help for that. - The automatic meridian flip options manage the meridian limit a better way without interrupting an exposure. - The horizon limit are managed by the rise/set options in the Begin/End column of the sequence. This rise/set are not at 0° of elevation, you can configure the minimum elevation in the observatory preferences, or load an horizon file to have different elevation for different azimuth. Do your mount as other limits that can not be prevented by this options? |
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My mount is setup to stop when a limit is reached. I didn't like the idea of going back home avec that happened. I agree it's a safety measure. But my horizon is very irregular due to trees, the observatory, and my house. So I setup 35 degrees minimum altitude but in a few places there is a spike above that. I don't really want to increase the minimum altitude because its lose large amounts of sky. Is fine if it's not possible. |
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Yes, that's why you can use an horizon profile that give the altitude for each azimuth. The format of the file is the same as for Cartes du Ciel, azimut in the first column, elevation in the second. When such a file is loaded in CCdciel the rise/set time are computed above this line. Here a part of my file and in attachment how it look in CdC. 70 19 80 20.5 85 26 90 28 93 21 95 25 110 25 115 18 117 20 121 18 125 20 128 14 135 12 140 14 143 12 145 14 147 10 148 10 150 13 153 12 155 9.5 157 9.5 158 12 162 8.5 163 11.5 165 11 166 8 170 7 hotizon.png (186,958 bytes) |
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And another point. When the target go behind the trees this produce a star lost event for PHD2. You can configure how CCDciel react to this event, how long it wait for recovery before to go to the next target, just set a smaller value for "Abort after". https://www.ap-i.net/ccdciel/en/documentation/preferences#autoguider |
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Ah that's great I didn't know it was used for rise/set values. That helps a lot. I'll reuse my eqmod horizon and that should take care of more issues. |
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As it is better to not reach the mount limits it is also good if the sequence can react correctly when this arise and the tracking stop. With this change it process the next target if the tracking cannot be restarted after 1 minute. https://github.com/pchev/ccdciel/commit/0dd2191e22050932b7e2040d533004ec88a673b6 |
- Anonymous
