A 20 minute exposure seems to finish about 4:33, another begins and appears to conclude successfully at 4:54:40 when the log reports “performing serialize.” Then nothing is logged until 5:08:31, when there is some kind of error message. The log is silent for another four minutes, when it reports PHD2 lost the guide star, and the run eventually shuts down. When I saw this in the morning, PHD2 seemed to have been fine until it was shutdown. The last PHD2 guide image shows the guide star locked on, and I don’t see an error in the PHD2 log. Anyway, whatever went wrong seems to have gone wrong several minutes earlier. Any ideas? CPC1100, SXVR-H694, SGP2.5.1.14.
That pause is normal. as is the “Performing Serialize”. You can see that pattern other places in your logs:
[6/9/2016 4:12:46 AM] [DEBUG] [Camera Thread] Cannot set readout speed, not supported by camera...
[6/9/2016 4:13:17 AM] [DEBUG] [Main Thread] PopulateDataModel: Transferring view to the data model...
[6/9/2016 4:13:17 AM] [DEBUG] [MF Update Thread] Performing serialize...
[6/9/2016 4:32:46 AM] [DEBUG] [Sequence Thread] TEMP - Current Event15: 0
[6/9/2016 4:32:46 AM] [DEBUG] [Sequence Thread] Waking from exposure time sleep period...
[6/9/2016 4:32:46 AM] [DEBUG] [Sequence Thread] Checking to see if the CCD has a temp...
[6/9/2016 3:32:05 AM] [DEBUG] [Camera Thread] Cannot set readout speed, not supported by camera...
[6/9/2016 3:32:53 AM] [DEBUG] [Main Thread] PopulateDataModel: Transferring view to the data model...
[6/9/2016 3:32:53 AM] [DEBUG] [MF Update Thread] Performing serialize...
[6/9/2016 3:52:05 AM] [DEBUG] [Sequence Thread] TEMP - Current Event15: 0
[6/9/2016 3:52:05 AM] [DEBUG] [Sequence Thread] Waking from exposure time sleep period...
[6/9/2016 3:52:05 AM] [DEBUG] [Sequence Thread] Checking to see if the CCD has a temp...
What appears to happen is that something goes bad with the telescope connection and causes a frame restart
`[6/9/2016 5:08:31 AM] [DEBUG] [CP Update Thread] ASCOM Telescope: Error in GetLst : Timed out waiting for received data
…
[6/9/2016 5:12:32 AM] [DEBUG] [PHD2 Listener Thread] Error: Guide star reported as lost!
[6/9/2016 5:12:32 AM] [DEBUG] [PHD2 Listener Thread] Adding sequence level notification: Guide star lost!
[6/9/2016 5:12:33 AM] [DEBUG] [Guider Camera Thread] Frame restart: Guide star was lost.
[6/9/2016 5:12:33 AM] [DEBUG] [Sequence Thread] ASCOM Camera: Attempting to abort exposure…
[6/9/2016 5:12:33 AM] [DEBUG] [Sequence Thread] ASCOM Camera: Exposure aborted…
[6/9/2016 5:12:33 AM] [DEBUG] [Sequence Thread] ASCOM Camera: Blocking until image is aborted…
[6/9/2016 5:12:33 AM] [DEBUG] [Camera Thread] ASCOM Camera: external abort…
[6/9/2016 5:12:33 AM] [DEBUG] [Camera Thread] SGM_CAMERA_CAPTURE complete…
[6/9/2016 5:12:34 AM] [DEBUG] [Sequence Thread] ASCOM Camera: Image is aborted…
[6/9/2016 5:12:34 AM] [DEBUG] [Sequence Thread] Adding sequence level notification: Frame restart: Guide star was lost.
Not sure what caused the telescope error. Appears to have been temporary.
Thanks,
Jared
Thanks for the quick read, Jared. I used to have occasional problems with the ASCOM mount connection, but that went away when I replaced my capture laptop several months ago. Hopefully it won’t return.