Plate Solve Failure during AutoCentering

I use auto centering when slewing to a target. I have Pinpoint set up as my plate solver.

I have a successful plate solve on the initial slew. There is an offset error detected. The telescope is moved. Then the next plate solve fails. It goes to blind solver and then solves successfully, and then I am off and running.

When I look at the log file, and compare the first and second plate solve outputs, it shows this:

First Plate Solve (successful)
[02/04/20 21:08:45.865][INFO][Telescope Thread][SQ;CE;] ********** SOLVE ATTEMPT INFO ************
[02/04/20 21:08:45.865][INFO][Telescope Thread][SQ;CE;] SOLVER: False
[02/04/20 21:08:45.865][INFO][Telescope Thread][SQ;CE;] SUCCESS: True
[02/04/20 21:08:45.865][INFO][Telescope Thread][SQ;CE;] CONF: 87
[02/04/20 21:08:45.865][INFO][Telescope Thread][SQ;CE;] BLIND: False
[02/04/20 21:08:45.865][INFO][Telescope Thread][SQ;CE;] RA: 9.92550922455692
[02/04/20 21:08:45.865][INFO][Telescope Thread][SQ;CE;] DEC: 69.0426765321217
[02/04/20 21:08:45.865][INFO][Telescope Thread][SQ;CE;] SCALE: 1.26849852925343
[02/04/20 21:08:45.865][INFO][Telescope Thread][SQ;CE;] FLIPPED: True
[02/04/20 21:08:45.865][INFO][Telescope Thread][SQ;CE;] ANGLE (EON): 91.5686720272563
[02/04/20 21:08:45.865][INFO][Telescope Thread][SQ;CE;] MSG: Matched 87 Stars.
[02/04/20 21:08:45.865][INFO][Telescope Thread][SQ;CE;] ******************************************

Second Plate Solve (Fail)
[02/04/20 21:09:10.106][INFO][Telescope Thread][SQ;CE;] ********** SOLVE ATTEMPT INFO ************
[02/04/20 21:09:10.106][INFO][Telescope Thread][SQ;CE;] SOLVER: False
[02/04/20 21:09:10.106][INFO][Telescope Thread][SQ;CE;] SUCCESS: False
[02/04/20 21:09:10.106][INFO][Telescope Thread][SQ;CE;] CONF: 0
[02/04/20 21:09:10.106][INFO][Telescope Thread][SQ;CE;] BLIND: False
[02/04/20 21:09:10.106][INFO][Telescope Thread][SQ;CE;] RA: 0
[02/04/20 21:09:10.106][INFO][Telescope Thread][SQ;CE;] DEC: 0
[02/04/20 21:09:10.106][INFO][Telescope Thread][SQ;CE;] SCALE: 0
[02/04/20 21:09:10.106][INFO][Telescope Thread][SQ;CE;] FLIPPED: False
[02/04/20 21:09:10.106][INFO][Telescope Thread][SQ;CE;] ANGLE (EON): -500
[02/04/20 21:09:10.106][INFO][Telescope Thread][SQ;CE;] MSG: Solve failed! Failed to solve plate, possibly due to input plate scale being too far off.

Don’t know why all the data is missing in the second plate solve which then causes the fail.

If more info is needed let me know.

Thanks,

Jerry

Hard to say without seeing logs. If you still have them, we can take a look.

Attached is the log of this event.

Thanks for taking a look.

Jerry

(Attachment sg_logfile_20200204113153.log is missing)

Is there a trick to uploading log files? .log or .txt?

We don’t allow them directly to be uploaded. You can do 1 of 2 things:
1 (preferred) - Create the help request from SGP and select the logs to upload (this does assume you’re using a fairly recent version of SGP). This will create a forum post and automatically upload and attach your logs with Dropbox.
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Thank you,
Jared