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Corpze

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  1. Hi, feels like i am spamming this community, but as a total newbee on ASA's mounts, i hope you understand :)

     

    I have come so far that i was able to perform a auto point with 20 stars yesterday, together with my C9,25" SCT.

    At first, i had a slew settle time of about 2sec, wasn't good enough so i raised it to 5 and later on 7 seconds.

    How ever, when pointing east, south or west I am getting pretty good stars for the 5sec exp. pinpoint needs. But when i am pointing north-ish at mid to low declinations, the 7sec is not at all near enough in settle time OR is it the servo PID-settings that might be different in this direction, making star trails? 

     

    This resulted in just two successful solved images.

     

    How long slew settle time do you guys have?

     

    /Daniel

     

  2. Update, i used the latest stable (not beta) of autoslew and the most recent beta of sequence, they probably wasn't compatible.

    I unistalled both of them, saved the .ini and removed bth program folders and installed the recent betas of them both, seems to be working now.

    /Daniel

  3. Hi, i am right now using CdC bit i think that program is to slow when scrolling/zooming in the sky chart.

    I am now looking towards going back to Stellarium, is there anyone using that software?

    It seems to have happend a lot in the past years with many plugins etc.

    /Daniel

  4. I have now tested with a plan, and when i hit Run Sequence, it does indeed changes the Safety monitor and from beeing OK to Not OK, so it seems to be working, but wouldn't it be better if it changed status when the driver does?

     

    /Daniel

  5. Well, the firmware in my arduino reads the sensors every two seconds, then takes an average of 15 readings, that makes 30s before the driver is updated with a new "Is Safe"

    So i can assume that the Sequence Safe Mon is indeed working properly.

     

    The error is that it is not changing status when altering the sensor values to force it in to Safe or Not safe.

    The ASCOM setup dialog box is how ever indicating that the hardware/fw and sensors are working propely and dispalying right sensor values and therefor safe or Not safe.

  6. Hi, i just wan't to get confirmation that the polar error shown in the window "Correction Factors" are shown in degrees?

    There isn't any mark besides the numbers, but at 2350mm FL and Atik 460 17mm chip, the star moved around 1/8 of the chip size when i moved the star, so to me, it seems that this would be in arc minutes rather than degrees. I am confused. (DDM85, four star align, third polar adjustment.)

     

    Polarerrorddm85.jpg

     

    /Daniel

     

    Edit, i started up auto slew and opened up the "Polar adjustment" tool just to check what number it says to me to move the mount, and it is in arc minutes, that seems more reasonable, if that is the case, 0.9 by 0.14 arc minutes seems like a good PA?

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