[rogerg (Roger)]

Hi all,

Does anyone know a setting that would prevent the Paramount ME from tracking below the west horizon?

Last night I had a script fail which left the mount tracking on the west side of the meridian. It kept tracking until I found it in the morning pointing 45 degrees below the western horizon, camera way up in the sky and cables taught. This has the potential to do serious damage and I'm surprised there wasn't a hard stop to prevent this occurring.

This very occasionally happens to me (~once/year). Bisque have in the past said that this is an automation problem and the 3rd party automation software should prevent it - I disagree and believe it's a telescope driver problem, 3rd party software shouldn't have to prevent damage to a scope. They never answered my question directly.

Thanks,
Roger.