Did a run with the S50 in alt-az and all attempts failed due to pointing problems:
22:56:55 [INFO] seevar.pilot — A7 solve-field start: file=NSV_23386_scope01_20260620T025655_VERIFY.fits ra=264.6651 dec=61.2378 radius=5.0 timeout=35s
22:57:09 [WARNING] seevar.pilot — A7 solve-field failed: rc=0 stderr=
22:57:09 [INFO] seevar.fsm — Bridge: [A7] Verify solve failed: solve-field failed (0)
22:57:09 [INFO] seevar.pilot — [A7] Verify solve failed: solve-field failed (0)
22:57:09 [INFO] seevar.fsm — Bridge: [A7] Pointing verify failed: solve-field failed (0)
22:57:09 [INFO] seevar.pilot — [A7] Pointing verify failed: solve-field failed (0)
22:57:09 [ERROR] seevar.fsm — [A11] Frame 1 failed: Verify solve failed after retries: solve-field failed (0)
22:57:09 [INFO] seevar.fsm — 🔄 FSM State updated to: ERROR
22:57:09 [INFO] seevar.orchestrator — [A12] Commit failure state
I found the pointing image in data/verify_buffer and ran it through nova.astrometry.net. Some of them were off by a mile. Like 32 deg in RA and 4 deg in dec.
I saw the note in config.toml:
For quick pre-alignment before a session, run:
.venv/bin/python dev/tools/telescope/prealign_pointing.py --points 3 --exposure-sec 5
But this faulted with:
raceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/sgeo/seevar/dev/tools/telescope/prealign_pointing.py", line 31, in
from alpaca.camera import Camera
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'alpaca'
Recommendations?
Could the Verify step, when it fails, do a re-sync of the S50 position to the results of the last plate solve?
George
Did a run with the S50 in alt-az and all attempts failed due to pointing problems:
22:56:55 [INFO] seevar.pilot — A7 solve-field start: file=NSV_23386_scope01_20260620T025655_VERIFY.fits ra=264.6651 dec=61.2378 radius=5.0 timeout=35s
22:57:09 [WARNING] seevar.pilot — A7 solve-field failed: rc=0 stderr=
22:57:09 [INFO] seevar.fsm — Bridge: [A7] Verify solve failed: solve-field failed (0)
22:57:09 [INFO] seevar.pilot — [A7] Verify solve failed: solve-field failed (0)
22:57:09 [INFO] seevar.fsm — Bridge: [A7] Pointing verify failed: solve-field failed (0)
22:57:09 [INFO] seevar.pilot — [A7] Pointing verify failed: solve-field failed (0)
22:57:09 [ERROR] seevar.fsm — [A11] Frame 1 failed: Verify solve failed after retries: solve-field failed (0)
22:57:09 [INFO] seevar.fsm — 🔄 FSM State updated to: ERROR
22:57:09 [INFO] seevar.orchestrator — [A12] Commit failure state
I found the pointing image in data/verify_buffer and ran it through nova.astrometry.net. Some of them were off by a mile. Like 32 deg in RA and 4 deg in dec.
I saw the note in config.toml:
For quick pre-alignment before a session, run:
.venv/bin/python dev/tools/telescope/prealign_pointing.py --points 3 --exposure-sec 5
But this faulted with:
raceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/sgeo/seevar/dev/tools/telescope/prealign_pointing.py", line 31, in
from alpaca.camera import Camera
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'alpaca'
Recommendations?
Could the Verify step, when it fails, do a re-sync of the S50 position to the results of the last plate solve?
George