Hi all...
It's been 3 years, since the original post, and despite several versions of the SW, and last night I encountered the same exact problem. My mount is a Skywatch Star Adventurer GTI, guide camera is a ASI715MC planetary camera, attached to a ZWO guide scope. The scope is an Askar FRA300, and main camera is a ASI533MC. ASIAIR Plus with 256GB. Powered by an ELB 500W 12V.
The workflow I used to ensure accuracy. All of it on ASIAIR via an iPad (no commands to the mount)
- Aligned the two cameras and scopes, and found focus manually during the day by pointing at a mountain 100 miles away (I'm in the Seattle region).
- Positioned mount and cameras using Polar Align Scope Pro to make sure I was pointed at Solaris. Probably overkill.
- Got the guide camera going and tracking in sidereal rate
- Ran Preview on Main camera. Ran the AutoFocus routine to ensure all stars were sharp. Looking at Polaris.
- Solved to ensure plate solving was working. Sync to scope
- Ran Polar Align - got to within 6" and got the fireworks
Then the go to issues started:
- Go to M81 which is right next door... it had to retry 3 times then I resync to scope
- Go to the Moon --- scope pointed at the ground, opposite direction of the moon, almost 180 degrees
- Go Home -- scope pointed at Polaris
- Plate solved again. Sync to scope again and go to Moon
- Scope pointed at another random location.
I am certainly doing the workflow incorrectly. Can someone who's been through this, point me to the correct workflow or sequence to ensure Go To works?
I am sure it's something very simple that I'm missing. Thanks for the help in advance!
Thanks
Hermann
Here's M81 after processing in PixInsight... I was trying for the Moon or the Pleiades and couldn't get GoTo to work....