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Re: Mount tracking after power-up
Norm
I agree, but mine is set to autoconnect-no...it should not start tracking until AFTER I tell it to resume from park.
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Norm
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Re: Mount tracking after power-up
Anthony Ayiomamitis <anthony@...>
O/H Jim Janusz έγραψε:
Jim, why not do this with autoconnect set to YES and rate set to STOP (tracking) so that you have the best of both worlds? I am sure it is the autoconnect feature that Norm just brought up. Anthony.
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Re: Mount tracking after power-up
Norm
Anthony,
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I think you are missing something. If you are required to tell the mount to resume from park and the mount has moved from that position because it has ALREADY started tracking prior to that command, then the subsequent pointing will be in error. Norm
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Re: Mount tracking after power-up
Anthony Ayiomamitis <anthony@...>
O/H Norm έγραψε:
Norm, here is the main point! I always have autoconnect set to YES and which means start tracking immediately since I always begin with a one-star alignment given the fact my mount is always outside but the scope is always inside (when not being used). Anthony.
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Re: Mount tracking after power-up
Norm
That is the way I remember my mount acting, Jim...It doesn't make sense to start tracking when you have to tell the mount to resume from some parked position that it is no longer positioned..
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Anthony, are you sure you are not in the autoconnect-yes configuration...in this case the mount DOES start tracking from the outset? Norm
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Re: Mount tracking after power-up
Anthony Ayiomamitis <anthony@...>
Norm,
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I never start a session with a resume from a parked position but I am not sure there should be a problem due to the delay you describe. The controller ALWAYS knows where it is pointing. If you parked the previous night, it knows where it is. Once you power up and it starts to track automatically, it is doing so from a known position (ie. last night's when you powered off). Once you specify location and time some "x" seconds later, it still knows where it is pointing but now with the location and time specified, it knows WHERE to slew (assuming your target is above the horizon at the time). Using your argument below about the delay, would the same not hold as well when you park and power down? Anthony. O/H Norm έγραψε:
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Re: Mount tracking after power-up
Jim Janusz <jjanusz@...>
Hi Anthony. Sorry, nope, I leave my mount for hours with power on and not initialized and it stays right in the park position.
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Don't know what I do different but I am certain it does not move. Jim
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Re: Mount tracking after power-up
Norm
I can agree that it should start tracking upon power up in the autoconnect-yes configuration, but it doesn't make sense to start tracking after power up in the autoconnect-no configuration...
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Re: Mount tracking after power-up
Norm
One problem with tracking immediately upon power up would be error from resuming from park.
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Example: If you are set to autoconnect OFF then the menu that follows power up is 1) location and 2) north polar calibrate or resume from park or resume from reference park 1... If there is a signifigant time lag between power up and resuming from park there would be aa pointing error in the amount of tracking since the power was applied....that would not make sense!
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Re: Pulse Guide not running w/AP driver
Jim Collins
Hi Drew,
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Sounds like at most, you only check one: Pier Flip in the Telescope Tab. Only if you have calibrated in West then moved scope to East Side. Correct? JIM C
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Re: Pulse Guide not running w/AP driver
Jim Collins
Hi Drew,
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Sounds like at most, you only check one: Pier Flip in the Telescope Tab. Only if you have calibrated in West then moved scope to East Side. Correct? JIM C
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Re: Mount tracking after power-up
Anthony Ayiomamitis <anthony@...>
O/H Norm έγραψε:
Norm, tracking has nothing to do with location etc in the hand controller since the latter (location) is for the purpose of slews. The mount MUST track at power up in order to make one-star alignment possible. Anthony.
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Re: Mach1 and Megastar
Shane Ramotowski
Alan,
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I'm using MegaStar with a 1200. Works fine. It's probably the same for your Mach1. Select Scope->Connect ... Choose Astro-Physics and the appropriate Com Port and press "Connect" The telescope control menu will pop up. Select "Show Field" and MegaStar will center to whatever the telescope is pointed at. Click on an object and select "Slew" and the mount will point the telescope at the object. You can center the scope on a particular object, then click that object and select MegaStar's Scope->Local Sync to improve MegaStar's accuracy. Good luck and have fun ... - Shane Just connect and then "show field". To go to an object, click the object and then select
On Thu, 06 May 2010 08:16:24 -0600, Alan <adfrench@...> wrote:
Anyone using Megastar with the Mach1? Sue uses Megastar while observing, and it would be nice to have Megastar telling the scope what to do.
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Re: Mount tracking after power-up
Anthony Ayiomamitis <anthony@...>
Jim,
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It HAS to track at power up. Otherwise, how would a one-star alignment be possible? I will give you a hint: open up the gear boxes so that the gears are exposed .... and then power up. ;-) You will see them turning/guiding. Anthony. O/H Jim Janusz έγραψε:
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Re: Mount tracking after power-up
Norm
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Thanks Anthony I could have sworn that, in the past, I have powered up the mount and it stays parked until I tell it the location and resume from park...then it begins to track at the last known rate!!!! Has anyone else had this misconception or has old-age finally destroyed my brain (the or part of this question is entirely rhetorical)? Norm
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Re: Mount tracking after power-up
Jim Janusz <jjanusz@...>
Anthony, not correct. When I initialize with Pulse Guide tracking starts. Until then, if I just power the mount, hand controller not connected, it does not start to track.
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Re: Mount tracking after power-up
ayiomamitis <anthony@...>
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Norm, it ALWAYS tracks from the moment you power up and it does so at the rate last specified (ex. sidereal)! Anthony. Norm
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Re: Pulse Guide not running w/AP driver
Jim Collins
Hi All..............At this point I'm almost totally confused about these pier settings.
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So far I've done all my calibration from the West Side of the Mount. Telescope Tab; Use Scope Pier Flip- checked. Guider Tab; Auto Pier Flip- checked. Sooo! Do these seem right/wrong and/ or a problem?? Last nite I only had time to run a a guider calibration with the "Telescope" setting and send the image files off to Tim @ Maxim. Tonite I will try what Florencio tried with changing the sign in the manual calibration box. My drift has been in X, so will try changing that one first. JIM C
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Mount tracking after power-up
Norm
I am truely confused. I have owned AP mounts since 1999 and thought I knew how to operate them. Night before last, I had planned to use my 1200 for visual observing while doing imaging elsewhere. I powered up the mount from the control room and proceeded to set up my imaging run. About an hour later I went out to use the 1200 and I had noticed it had been tracking the whole time since I powered it up (this has never happened before!). I picked up the hand controller and went through the usual setup (location input, resume from park). The problem is that it was no longer parked, so the pointing was off in the amount the mount had been tracking. Autoconnect is off. I have been using the hand controller exclusively, since I have gotten into trouble with most of the software occasionally sending confusing commands to the mount and getting the mount (shall I say "lost").
It happened again tonight. The mount is not supposed to start tracking upon power-up...am I wrong? Norm
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Re: omega centauri
ancient.sull
Very nice. I have only seen Omega Centauri once, and by chance that was also from a bedroom balcony where I had set up a scope - at a hotel where we stayed on a trip to New Zealand.
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