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Originally Posted by moonview
Hi there. A number of Members have spoken about problems with the Celestron Star Sense Autoalign. I have had the same problems as other users in the Southern skies and cannot get the device to sync to Southern Hemisphere. Has anyone found a Celestron software upgrade or know when one maybe expected? This is taking a very long time to provide a solution.
Thanks
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Hi Chris,
The southern hemisphere align problems are definitely fixed in recent beta releases of the SSA firmware that you can get access to by joining the "team celestron" website and becoming a member of the SSA testing group there.
I think though that the southern hemisphere align fixes are also in the latest publicly released SSA firmware, which you can get by downloading and installing the latest release of the CFM firmware installer from the support pages of the main Celestron website, under software downloads. If you install that CFM and connect the SSA to your computer exactly as per the connection diagram that is in the CFM package (use as short a micro usb cable to the camera as you can find for best success with the update), you can then fire off an update for the SSA from CFM which will automatically find, download, and install from the internet the current latest publicly released SSA firmware.
So that is two ways you could get the southern hemisphere SSA fixes. I'm in NZ and the SSA is working brilliantly here now with the latest firmware. They are also working on updates to the SSA manual to match the latest firmware, but I don't know if the manual changes have made it to public release yet, but definitely avialable in draft form on the team celestron site if you register as a beta tester.
They still have to fix ASPA on the SSA and get SSA aligns working on wedge mounted Alt Az mounts in Eq mode, but those are the only important bugs remaining that I can think of. I've been helping them beta test fixes including the southern hemisphere fixes.
Cheers,
Chris M