Hi Brian,

It looked like there was a plate solve/sync near the celestial pole. That's a bad area of the sky to do a plate solve because RA can be very inaccurate. Could this be the problem?

-Ray


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> From: main@ap-gto.groups.io [mailto:main@ap-gto.groups.io] On Behalf Of Brian Valente
> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 5:03 PM
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> Subject: [ap-gto] plate solve/recal help
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> Hi folks - and probably Ray specifically ;)
>
> my plate solve/recals have gone awry - Any suggestions on how to debug are welcome
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> everything's worked great until a few nights ago
> now plate solves result in the telescope pointing into the ground
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> PlateSolveSyncNow: HA,RA,Dec= 0.207194417504546,  -15980.579 min,  -49.794 arc-min
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>
> things i've done:
> I checked my date/time/location settings and they all seem correct.
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> Reset the scope to Park 3 via clutches, power cycled the mount and re-init to park 3 as well
>
> zipped logs:
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/dcabmu6ceju2v53/ApccZip-Greg_Stein-2021-10-26-205641.zip?dl=0
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> Brian
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