FocusMax Error hangs ACP?

Hi,

Had marginal seeing last night and I believe a focus failed (see the long exposure) but the script continued to run for 7h until the AM when I manually aborted it?

I wonder if bad weather would have shut down the roof in such a situation?

Comments?

07:33:51 23:33:51 Target star found
07:33:51 23:33:51 48967, 47.01, 743, 1564, 5058, 1117, 1
07:33:51 23:33:51 ...Focus bin: 1
07:33:51 23:33:51 ...Frame width: 124
07:33:51 23:33:51 ...Focus exposure: 35.59 sec
07:33:51 23:33:51 Moving to: 48842
07:34:29 23:34:29 Star is too close to frame edge or is too weak
07:34:29 23:34:29 Increasing frame Width to 150
07:35:06 23:35:06 Star is too close to frame edge or is too weak
07:35:07 23:35:06 Increasing frame Width to 225
07:35:44 23:35:44 Setting exposure: 20.2
07:35:45 23:35:45 ...Exp: 20.20 HFD: 19.82 Flux: 634146
07:35:46 23:35:46 ...Unbinned X: 732 Y: 1466
07:35:46 23:35:46 Taking star centering exposure
07:36:08 23:36:08 ** Star is too dim **
07:36:08 23:36:08 Exposure > 45.00 maximum exposure setting
07:36:08 23:36:08 Cannot get target star
07:36:08 23:36:08 Aborting focus run
07:36:08 23:36:08 Moving to previous focus position of 48967
07:36:10 23:36:09 Focus not achieved with star 1 of 4 - trying next target star
07:36:10 23:36:10 Using 3.00 mag star at RA 06:45:01.8 Dec +25:06:35.0 (Topo) Alt: 39.01
07:36:10 23:36:10 Slewing 15.74 degrees to target star
07:36:10 **Autofocus failed. Check FocusMax log for details.
07:36:10 Autofocus finished.
07:36:10 [flip check: Tn=720s HAc=-9881s GW=F HAz=-11077s DWz=F WF=no]
07:36:10 Updating pointing...
07:36:10 Switching from H-Alpha to Luminance filter for pointing exposure
07:36:11 (taking 10 sec. exposure, Luminance filter, binning = 4)
07:36:11 (using Raw readout mode)
14:59:49 **Script Error**
14:59:49 Source: ACP
14:59:49 Message: The script was aborted.
14:59:49 Location: line 1111 column 17.
ACP console log closed 12-Nov-2017 14:59:50 UTC

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Had marginal seeing last night and I believe a focus failed (see the long exposure) but the script continued to run for 7h until the AM when I manually aborted it?

I wonder if bad weather would have shut down the roof in such a situation?

Comments?

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What I see is a 10 second exposure that lasts over seven hours! Something got stuck with the camera. Did you happen to see anything strange on the system? Normally ACP has a timer that will stop an exposure at 3x the requested (a rare "oops logic" in ACP). But it got really stuck, like when it checked the camera status it called MaxIm and never returned, leaving everything stuck.

The problem is that ACP needs to intervene in order to have your roof safely closed. Were it not for the low-hanging roof, the weather sensor could just close the roof and keep your stuff safe.