TCS Command Issues
Wednesday, May 2, 2018 12:31 PM
Problem(s) Encountered:
Problems with the TCS. It would sometimes do what I wanted, but other times not. For example, turning on/off tracking either did not work unless the ''apply'' button was hit several times.
Sometimes it seemed that it would do things without updating the display.
I could change the focus by putting in a new value in the box, but the display of the focus value would not update.
Sometimes the dome would go home or track the telescope, other times not. Sometimes a coordinate update (next object) from jskycalc would
appear in the TCS display, other times not.
Restarting the TCS software seemed to help for a short while, but then the problems arose again. I did not go so far as to do a hardware restart on the panel in the control room.
Solutions:
This appears to have been due to excessive memory demand (memory leaks). Coding has been optimized somewhat in hopes to rectify.