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I've just packed up after a frustrating night of fighting with the mount. There is another new "feature" I didn't notice before.
After successful 3-star alignment (and ignoring a small polar alignment error), the mount slews to objects I tell it to go to, and upon arriving there (pretty much spot on) slews away by about half a degree, slews back to the object and goes back and forth a couple of times until it stops half a degree away from the object. What's that about? It only appeared to happen for objects in the north to north-east (around Orion and Taurus tonight).
I thought it might be some sort of backlash compensation, so when it overshoots the target it goes back and tries to come again (in order to approach from the right direction). But it should eventually make it to the target and not stop way away from it.
What is a SynScan firmware version people are happy with? I might re-flash my controller with that one to get some reliability back.
Cheers
Steffen.
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