jmelquist
07-07-2012, 02:21 AM
Sorry in advance - i'm missing something obvious, kudos to the first person to point out the "you dummy" fix i'm missing! :)
Just upgraded all my astro software/firmware/drivers (knew it would be a pain, but with full moon out, figured I had some time...) Anyhow, after updating to the latest CGEM firmware (both Motors and Hand Controler), my scope is completely disoriented. I polar aligned it and it has the correct home position and reports 90/90 degrees as it should. I've confirmed it has the right time/date and Lat/Lon. However, when I go to align it, it slews to the NE horizon and tells me to center Vega (wich was just west of zenith at the time!) Also, when I manually slew the scope to a target and tell PHD to guide it calibrates fine but after calibration, the RA rockets off course immediately (Dec seems fine). I can correct for this by turning on "flip calibration." I'm wondering if it's a meridian issue. My setup can only shoot the western sky so my scope is always pointing to zenith or westward of that. (I'm in Minneapolis, MN by the way). Does this sound like the problem? what/how should i config NexStar to tell it this? or is it a different problem? I'll keep fighting with it, but i know i'm missing something obvious... thanks for any suggestions/help!
-Jas
Just upgraded all my astro software/firmware/drivers (knew it would be a pain, but with full moon out, figured I had some time...) Anyhow, after updating to the latest CGEM firmware (both Motors and Hand Controler), my scope is completely disoriented. I polar aligned it and it has the correct home position and reports 90/90 degrees as it should. I've confirmed it has the right time/date and Lat/Lon. However, when I go to align it, it slews to the NE horizon and tells me to center Vega (wich was just west of zenith at the time!) Also, when I manually slew the scope to a target and tell PHD to guide it calibrates fine but after calibration, the RA rockets off course immediately (Dec seems fine). I can correct for this by turning on "flip calibration." I'm wondering if it's a meridian issue. My setup can only shoot the western sky so my scope is always pointing to zenith or westward of that. (I'm in Minneapolis, MN by the way). Does this sound like the problem? what/how should i config NexStar to tell it this? or is it a different problem? I'll keep fighting with it, but i know i'm missing something obvious... thanks for any suggestions/help!
-Jas