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Originally Posted by Swagman105
Had a chance to get out tonight 23/02/23. Cloud free sky, no moon.
Made sure the Raw box was unchecked but then encountered the same old problem that has plagued me ever since I got the mount.
Star detection numbers were jumping around all over the place, momentarily displaying plate solving success then immediately back to plate solving failure.
Every now and again the confirm position 1 button would activate but then just as quickly become inactive. It was just impossible to progress to anything like a successful polar align.
Turned the exposure up and down to get from nearly 30 stars detected to just a few and the same jumping about occurred and lack of plate solving even with high numbers of stars detected.
I took a video of the screen which I had hoped to upload here but that seems too large a file for the forum to handle. If anyone would like to see it perhaps send me a PM with an email address and I could try to send it that way.
Regarding the suggestion that the Ipolar was not aimed accurately enough at the SCP region, I can discount that as I have a true North/South line etched into my driveway and have no trouble getting my ZEQ with a Polemaster lined up on the Octans trapezoid almost always at first attempt.
Looking forward to hearing how Crater101 fared as the symptoms he reported seem almost identical to mine. Will hold off contacting Ioptron until we can compare notes.
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We had low overcast and light rain here from about dusk. THings are looking better for this evening. I'll let you know.
For what it may be worth, your experiences are almost identical to my own.