Meridian flip improvement

astrosatch

Hi. At the moment meridian flip behaves like this: In autorun when taking subs let's say 300 sec, asiair is tracking and guiding. Ok. Time until meridian flip is approximately 30 min. When the last sub is taken before meridian flip occurs, if time until flip is less than 300 sec, mount stop tracking, autorun is paused and awaiting to countdown to 0. This is dead time. Why not implement "time window" to this behaviour so MF occurs instantly after finished sub? Say if I have set MF to happen 5 min after meridian, I can add another few minutes of "time window" just for sub to finish and then imidiately flip commences and there is no idle time. This might not be such a problem with short subs, however with my 3.5nm filters I also shoot 10 min subs and to lose one whole sub just because MF occurs at 9min 56 sec is just nonsense.
Please take this into consideration.
Br,
Andrej

wvreeven

I agree. This feature of stop tracking X minutes before culmination was implemented to avoid the camera from bumping into the mount or tripod but that for me is not the case so I am wasting valuable imaging time.
ZWO, please implement a checkbox to disable that behaviour such that ASIAIR will perform the MF as follows:

Keep tracking, guiding and imaging until the MF time has come. So if I specify that the MF should happen 5 minutes after culmination, then keep on tracking, guiding and imaging at least until then.
As soon as the current image is done, suspend guiding and imaging and perform the MF
As soon as the MF is done, proceed as usual meaning plate solving, centering etc.

Thanks!