New Autoslew

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Posted By: georgecarey47 Wed Apr 24, 2013 7:13 pm

I see that Autoslew 5116 is on the ASA website. The history has not been updated
yet - does anyone know what 5116 can do?

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Posted By: schmidmahler Wed Apr 24, 2013 11:49 pm

I installed it yesterday to test (Update from 5.1.1.1). Everything works fine
with my DDM60Pro as before. The only change that I have noticed so far is the
smaller window that pops up during slews (nice if you have a small monitor).

An update of the version history document on the ASA Website would be welcome
(last update with 5.1.1.1)! Another option would be a post in this forum.

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Posted By: tomtom2509 Thu Apr 25, 2013 10:43 am

Can it be used by people who has the "Debug Assertion Error" with 5.1.1.2?
Thx and BR
Thomas

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Posted By: jbaj82 Thu Apr 25, 2013 2:01 pm

I believe 5112 fixed the Polar Aligment bug and 5114 fixed the Debug Assertion
Error. That's the reason I'm using 5114. I'm also curious about the release
notes of 5116.

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Posted By: jbaj82 Wed May 1, 2013 9:17 pm

I'm using 5114 to fix the Debug Assertion Error that I had with 5112. Can
someone confirm that 5116 won't give me the Debug Assertion Error again? And any
news on the changes of 5116, is it only the slew popup that's different?

Best regards,

Jeffrey
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Posted By: jbaj82 Wed May 1, 2013 12:09 pm

Hi all,

I want to update 5114 to 5116, but I want to be sure that I won't see the Debug
Assertion Error, like I saw with 5112 (that's the reason for me to use 5114).
Anyone using 5116 with success and also needed 5114 to fix the Debug Assertion
Error?

Regards,

Jeffrey

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Posted By: tomtom2509 Thu May 2, 2013 8:44 am

Hi Jeffrey,

I tried 5116 yesterday. It was running fine over two hours without any errors
than the clouds come in. So it seems all to be okay.
I never get a feedback from ASA or Philipp what was responsible for the "Debug
Assertion Error", just the in information that in a few hardware surroundings
the problem appear.
What I like in the 5116 in the first view is, that the "slewing-windows" have
been repaired. Now I can see the movement of both axis again. And the windows is
smaller.
So I think you can try I without a risk.

Best regards
Thomas

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Posted By: nischangde Mon May 6, 2013 5:46 pm

Thomas,

thank you for your try... with that in mind, I ran 5.1.1.6 last night, though
Philipp did not directly recommend it.

And I noticed another detail: the bottom status bar shows the remaining "MLPT
left=" time. That is very nice !
Due to I examined "first light" with a focal length of 1860 mm with the MLPT
function last night, this detail is great.

Now that the plate solving problems have been clarified (ref msg # 8265), I only
made a 3 star polar align (had polar error below 1,6 in both Az and Alt after
the second correction), then LPT recordings with 5 steps for an intended total
exposure time of 60 minutes, and got perfect circled stars in 15 minute
exposures afterwards !
Thats the perfection I had in mind when going for the DDM drive (mine is a
DDM60). Last night it came true.


Clear skies to all
Martin

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Posted By: philipp_keller Thu May 2, 2013 11:38 am (ASA STAFF)

 

I think most people should wait for the next release which will also be
important for the new Sequence.
The new Sequence is now beeing tested on different mounts, looks good !
 

 

[gmalits]

Are there clues as to when the new version will be available?

 

At the CCDAutoPilot-forum, one user asked: "I wonder if at some stage it would be feasible for you to liaise with Philipp Keller (if he is willing) to script and automate via CCDAP5 the MLPT feature in his Sequence software for an ASA mount that is controlled via ASCOM/Autoslew.....?"

 

Answer was: "Phillip Keller/ASA seem to be going a different direction now......"

 

which will be probably exciting!!