John,

I have been testing the new Starfish Autoguider with the Astrodon MOAG and CCDAP3. I get consistant error most every night that "cannot start the guider". This one occured after a meridan flip. The log files have been sent to you and I understand that Fishcamp has sent an autoguider to you. For reference, here is the message from the log file.

"21:46:02 I:SG1, MaxIm DL 4: Cannot Start Guider
21:46:04 I:SG2, MaxIm DL 4: Cannot Start Guider

This may not be a CCAP3 problem. Just thought that I would bring it to the forum for discussion.

Thanks,
Dale

Hi Dale,

I have been in contact with Starfish (Bob Patek) on this issue. He has said he will send me a loaner for evaluation within the next week or two at which time I will investigate and attempt to resolve the problem you are seeing.

Stay tuned...

John,

I have recently installed new Starfish software "Guider_mono_rev13_intel.srec" sent by Bob at Fishcamp. I tested the Starfish w/ CCDAP3 over the last two nights with no errors or exceptions.

This version of the software corrected a bug that introduced latency between the guider image download and the start of the next exposure.

This may have solved the problem first reported here.

Dale

Hi Dale,

I was still seeing a problem with that firmware version with my test script here but glad to know it is working ok for you. I think Bob may be planning a little more work on it.