hey guys
I have been having some weird probs with eq6 which have been partially due to bugs in the southern hemisphere code on the controller, but I'm now upgraded to a newer version which supposedly eliminates those.
I had a weird prob last night and this is the email I have sent to the makers of the mount. I was wondering if you have a sec if you can have a quick read and tell me if you think it's a error with the controller or mount or an error by the idiot (me)
Quote:
Hi Jack,
Last night another oddity.
I did a 2 star alignment on Rigel & Achernar. Using a 32mm & the telrad to help find the star, then centering it and putting a 11mm in to really lock it in.
The alignment was still a little off but once I did a PAE on Canopus & the moon it seemed reasonably accurate, accurate enough to put the orion nebula in the viewfinder on the 32mm when you issued a goto.
I then tried to pick the first object in the 'guided tour' which is andromeda. The scope began slewing to point directly up, then continued going in an extreme uppish north/west angle. It reached a internal limit on how far it can go (I presume) and you then saw the OTA 'bounce back' a few times as it reached that limit. As it did this bouncing back thing the hand controller kept counting the degrees the mount was supposedly moving, appearing to not realise the mount could go no further.
The main problem is though that once this has happened, the controller has massively lost any idea where the scope is. Now if you tell it to goto orion nebula, whereas before it went there fine - this time it was ludicrously off, i.e. orion is well above my garage height wise, yet the scope now thinks orion is straight through my garage door.
A further idea that the controller has lost sync with where the mount is is that if you go into the utility function and park the scope, it ends parking it nowhere near where you had the scope at the start of the session. This is sort of what happened on the previous night when attempting to align to procyon.
Would appreciate the help. it's not really hugely usable at this point as any object in the sky it can't get to will knock the goto alignment completely out of whack, with you needing to go through the whole alignment process again. I don't know why it can't get to andromeda, I've have thought with the exception of very low horizon objects that it could pretty much point anywhere.
thanks for your help
cheers
Gav
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