Plan was a Non-start...why?

JTSAN

As a newbie, I stated using the Plan mode of ASIAIR only a few weeks ago and have had success. Last eveningI tried to image M17., starting at around 12:05am and running for about 4 hours. I enabled Plan around 8pm the previous night and got the usual "waiting to start..." message on the Air. Coincidentally, I woke up about 12:15am and did not see any activity. It looked like Plan started but there was no imaging talking place and the frame counter was still at zero. I cancelled Plan three additional times with a "Start Now" timing but had the same results. At that point, I removed the Plan, stated an Autorun of M17 and got great capture and imaging. Does anyone know why Plan failed or where I can look to see what might have gone wrong?

Eriktim82

JTSAN are you using narrow band filters? Does it slew and then platesolve to check for centering? If you're using narrowband filters is your centering exposure time long enough.

JTSAN

Hello, I don’t know if I have an answer for you. I am using a nb filter. After a PA, I slew to an object, take an exposure and then fine tune the focus. After that, I send mount to Home, initiate Plan, get a msg it is waiting for Start time and I’m done. I assume plate solving has been successfully completed.

PMTeam@ZWO

Hello, what time did you fill in the 【Start at】? If want to begin in early morning, you need to fill in 【00 05 00】; if you fill in 【12 05 00】, the plan will start at noon

JTSAN

PMTeam@ZWO

Thank you for your reply. The plan was supposed to start around midnight. I set the start time to 0:05:00 and hit the go button, which I then saw the message that the Plan was waiting X hours and y minutes to start. At around 0:15 hours when I woke, the plan had started but here were no exposures and no activity on the scope or mount. I reset the pan several times to Start Now, but nothing happened. I decided to use Autorun and that worked. Since posting my inquiry, I used Plan to see if it would work again, but I started in the early evening where I could monitor the Air and it worked the way it was supposed to.
So my initial question remains...Does anyone know why Plan failed or where I can look to see what might have gone wrong?

PMTeam@ZWO

Hello, you can find the plan log in Files Management - Capture Log, which will record why the plan was not started