[Re]Center, with explicit filter, does not restore prior filter if cancelled when sequence restarted

[Linwood Ferguson]

This is a bit arcane but happened a few times and I managed to recreate with the simulator.

Scenario: You have a sequence imaging with a filter, like Ha. You hit a center instruction, or in my case a recenter-after-drift, and decide to cancel it and the sequence, then rerun. The plate solving settings are set for Luminance.

When you rerun the sequence, it starts either at the center, or the next exposure/instruction, but now Luminance is active. In my case it happily started imaging but with luminance.

My suggestion is that the center operation if cancelled cleans up by restoring the filter active when it started.

[Stefan B]

Well but cancelling means cancelling. You might have pressed that out of an emergency, so restoring anything further might not be wise. In addition you could also manually have adjustet the filter while the sequence wasn’t running and then have also the incorrect filter on resuming. Tricky to do the right thing for everyone here.

[Linwood Ferguson]

FYI: This was Dale’s fault, I kept interrupt it to rebuild a Dec Arc model, so I could restart. Once I realized what happened I could re-set the switch filter also. Just never occurred to me.

What people do in the interim is on them, but there is a perception that one can stop a sequence, hit restart, and it starts back where it was. This is a circumstance where that does not work.

Though I get your point, I guess there could be fire coming from the filter wheel that caused me to stop it.

[Stefan B]

This was fixed in january.

[Stefan B]

Removing version: 2.0 Beta (automated comment)