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Originally Posted by Merlin66
Craig,
It sounds like your platesolving capabilities are part of the problem.
Have you tried Astrometry.net?
I find Astroart solves pretty well.
If the plate solving software is any good it should be able to solve any good image.....
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Yep, something is awry with my PS but I can't figure out what. Astronomy.net has a 100% success rate for me, but the problem is that I have no way of taking it's successful result and syncing it into EQMOD (as far as I know?) so it's kind of useless.
APT doesn't do the PS itself, it lets you plug in other programs that do it. I have used ASPS and PS2 within APT. Both have had their share of success and failure for me.
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Originally Posted by SteveInNZ
You are asking EQMOD to do something that is illogical.
When the scope is pointing at the pole, the Dec is obviously 90 degrees, but the RA is undefined. Consider what would happen if you asked the scope to move east by 10 degrees when it's pointing at the pole.
If it can't determine an RA value, it can't say where it is and therefore, can't sync.
Steve
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Thanks for this. So the illogical action you refer to is me expecting to sync RA/DEC coordinates into the mount when it's pointing at the pole?