In the sgp 3 version in the log I have a lot of lines related to the dome, is it possible to avoid it?
No idea? It’ll be very useful for me.
No, unfortunately we only have a single log level. If you can link to an example of your log I can take a look and see if something is overly annoying.
Thanks,
Jared
Finally, I began to photograph with the dome after a long pause for the update of the CCD. Here is the example of log that tracks the movement of the dome with dozen of rows every seconds.
[04/20/18 21:44:40.005][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Observatory: Calculating new position using:
[04/20/18 21:44:40.005][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Azimuth: 52.0229206362689
[04/20/18 21:44:40.005][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Altitude: 53.1198114998288
[04/20/18 21:44:40.005][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Hour Angle: -54.4879084494121
[04/20/18 21:44:40.005][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Pier Side: West
[04/20/18 21:44:40.005][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Observatory: No adjustment needed.
[04/20/18 21:44:40.103][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Observatory: Calculating new position using:
[04/20/18 21:44:40.103][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Azimuth: 52.0229206362689
[04/20/18 21:44:40.103][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Altitude: 53.1198114998288
[04/20/18 21:44:40.103][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Hour Angle: -54.4875031762412
[04/20/18 21:44:40.103][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Pier Side: West
[04/20/18 21:44:40.103][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Observatory: No adjustment needed.
[04/20/18 21:44:40.212][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Observatory: Calculating new position using:
[04/20/18 21:44:40.212][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Azimuth: 52.0229880846285
[04/20/18 21:44:40.212][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Altitude: 53.1203681141267
[04/20/18 21:44:40.212][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Hour Angle: -54.4870094957238
[04/20/18 21:44:40.212][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Pier Side: West
[04/20/18 21:44:40.212][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Observatory: No adjustment needed.
[04/20/18 21:44:40.310][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Observatory: Calculating new position using:
[04/20/18 21:44:40.310][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Azimuth: 52.0229880846285
[04/20/18 21:44:40.310][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Altitude: 53.1203681141267
[04/20/18 21:44:40.310][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Hour Angle: -54.4866000444798
[04/20/18 21:44:40.310][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Pier Side: West
[04/20/18 21:44:40.310][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Observatory: No adjustment needed.
[04/20/18 21:44:40.426][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Observatory: Calculating new position using:
[04/20/18 21:44:40.426][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Azimuth: 52.0230499027628
[04/20/18 21:44:40.426][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Altitude: 53.120878344349
[04/20/18 21:44:40.426][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Hour Angle: -54.4861485486675
[04/20/18 21:44:40.426][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Pier Side: West
[04/20/18 21:44:40.426][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Observatory: No adjustment needed.
[04/20/18 21:44:40.527][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Observatory: Calculating new position using:
[04/20/18 21:44:40.527][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Azimuth: 52.0230499027628
[04/20/18 21:44:40.527][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Altitude: 53.120878344349
[04/20/18 21:44:40.527][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Hour Angle: -54.4857265658292
[04/20/18 21:44:40.527][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Pier Side: West
[04/20/18 21:44:40.527][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Observatory: No adjustment needed.
[04/20/18 21:44:40.641][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Observatory: Calculating new position using:
[04/20/18 21:44:40.641][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Azimuth: 52.0231145210666
[04/20/18 21:44:40.641][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Altitude: 53.1214117673136
[04/20/18 21:44:40.641][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Hour Angle: -54.4852268201306
[04/20/18 21:44:40.641][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Pier Side: West
[04/20/18 21:44:40.641][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Observatory: No adjustment needed.
[04/20/18 21:44:40.739][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Observatory: Calculating new position using:
[04/20/18 21:44:40.739][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Azimuth: 52.0231145210666
[04/20/18 21:44:40.739][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Altitude: 53.1214117673136
[04/20/18 21:44:40.739][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Hour Angle: -54.4848215443339
[04/20/18 21:44:40.739][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Pier Side: West
[04/20/18 21:44:40.739][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Observatory: No adjustment needed.
[04/20/18 21:44:40.868][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Observatory: Calculating new position using:
[04/20/18 21:44:40.868][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Azimuth: 52.0231791294077
[04/20/18 21:44:40.868][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Altitude: 53.1219451907478
[04/20/18 21:44:40.868][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Hour Angle: -54.4842758398711
[04/20/18 21:44:40.868][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Pier Side: West
[04/20/18 21:44:40.868][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Observatory: No adjustment needed.
[04/20/18 21:44:41.005][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Observatory: Calculating new position using:
[04/20/18 21:44:41.005][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Azimuth: 52.0231791294077
[04/20/18 21:44:41.005][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Altitude: 53.1219451907478
[04/20/18 21:44:41.005][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Hour Angle: -54.4837034437439
[04/20/18 21:44:41.005][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Pier Side: West
[04/20/18 21:44:41.005][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Observatory: No adjustment needed.
[04/20/18 21:44:41.113][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Observatory: Calculating new position using:
[04/20/18 21:44:41.113][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Azimuth: 52.0232437277859
[04/20/18 21:44:41.113][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Altitude: 53.1224786146515
[04/20/18 21:44:41.113][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Hour Angle: -54.4832454781101
[04/20/18 21:44:41.113][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Pier Side: West
[04/20/18 21:44:41.113][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Observatory: No adjustment needed.
[04/20/18 21:44:41.210][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Observatory: Calculating new position using:
[04/20/18 21:44:41.210][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Azimuth: 52.0232437277859
[04/20/18 21:44:41.210][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Altitude: 53.1224786146515
[04/20/18 21:44:41.210][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Hour Angle: -54.4828402082797
[04/20/18 21:44:41.210][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Pier Side: West
[04/20/18 21:44:41.210][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Observatory: No adjustment needed.
[04/20/18 21:44:41.319][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Observatory: Calculating new position using:
[04/20/18 21:44:41.319][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Azimuth: 52.0233083162006
[04/20/18 21:44:41.319][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Altitude: 53.1230120390247
[04/20/18 21:44:41.319][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Hour Angle: -54.4823947749921
[04/20/18 21:44:41.319][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Pier Side: West
[04/20/18 21:44:41.319][DEBUG] [Dome Thread] Observatory: No adjustment needed.
Looking at that log the problem is that the dome is being polled far faster than needed. The cycle of calls are being made 10 times a second, in that time the sky will have moved an insignificant 0.15 arc seconds.
Dome movements are of the order of degrees and control programs are usually set so that a dome move is only done every few degrees.
Polling the dome every 10 to 60 seconds would be ample. It would reduce the load on the various processors and hardware so leaving more resources for other more important processes and would also improve reliability. And make the log smaller.
Thank you for the hint, I’ll check the configuration if there are some parameters related to the pooling calls. I check it also with the dome’s vendor.
This is down to SGP. It’s their log, recording what they are doing. AFAIK there isn’t any user control over this. The dome vendor has no control over this.
Make sure your update frequency is setup to something sane. I usuaully use 60 seconds.
If that is something “normal” then please attach your full log.
Thanks,
Jared
The same setting, so it is very strange to me.
I have attached a full log some messages above: http://forum.mainsequencesoftware.com/uploads/db2508/original/2X/5/50c5243e0dbfda5929b89f574b193f56afc7df9e.zip
Any news about this? Could you help me to avoid this noise on the log?