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Old 27-06-2013, 10:29 AM
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Originally Posted by Steffen View Post
Unless you need the almost fully functional polar alignment routine, version 3.27 is still the best.

In 3.35 they still have that odd backlash compensation bug introduced in 3.32. The mount tries to approach an object always from the same side in RA and Dec with GOTO slews. That's laudable but sometimes it moves in on the target, then moves away in Dec, moves in on it again and so on several times only to eventually stop *away* from the target. This can be worked around by manually slewing a fair bit past the target in Dec and then doing the GOTO again, but it's still annoying.

Version 3.27 didn't have this bug.

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Steffen.
Sounds annoying! Thankfully not an EQ8 bug though, those encoders certainly play a big part in pointing.
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