I've come across a couple related issues. The first issue is that when I set a large dither value (10 in this case), frequently Ekos will complain that it lost the guide star after a dither. It's like the dithering routine forgot to tell the guiding algorithm the new position of the guide star. It's still within the yellow box, not sure why it can't find it...
But this wouldn't be much of a problem, because it says "Lost track of the guide star. Searching for guide stars...", and it immediately finds the same star, and resumes guiding.
However, it doesn't notify the capture module that dithering is complete when this happens. The capture module stays stuck, saying "Dithering..." forever, even though dithering has long since stopped, and the guide module is happily guiding.
It's very frustrating to come back a couple hours later after starting a capture session, to see it only captured a single image and was stuck there.
I'm currently working around this by setting a smaller dither value (4 in this case), which seems to keep the guider from losing track of the guide star after a dither.
But this wouldn't be much of a problem, because it says "Lost track of the guide star. Searching for guide stars...", and it immediately finds the same star, and resumes guiding.
However, it doesn't notify the capture module that dithering is complete when this happens. The capture module stays stuck, saying "Dithering..." forever, even though dithering has long since stopped, and the guide module is happily guiding.
It's very frustrating to come back a couple hours later after starting a capture session, to see it only captured a single image and was stuck there.
I'm currently working around this by setting a smaller dither value (4 in this case), which seems to keep the guider from losing track of the guide star after a dither.