@AjayNarayanan wrote:
I recently purchased an AP900 and with the weather being unsuitable for real observations, I've been trying to workout as many issues as I can indoors.
I am using the AP900 with a GTOCP2 controller. Hand controller is not attached and the latest ASCOM driver V5.09.07. SGP connects to the mount fine. I simulate pointing to the sky by using CDC. SGP shows time to meridian flip but when the moment arrives, there is no action. SGP pier flip info on the info bar goes from time remaining to NA and the AP driver shows that "pierside" goes from East to West. The mount continues to track past the meridian without flipping as is the case with AP mounts. I have the setting for tracking past meridian to "0" in the AP driver so it should in principle flip immediately.
One thing I have noticed is that the RA and DEC values dsiplayed by SGP (J2000) are different than those displayed by the AP driver (JNOW?). Is that the problem? I have done meridian flips routinely with an EQ6+EQMOD before and I think I have all the SGP settings done correctly. Could someone please post the settings? Are there any gotchas?
One other thing I noticed was that the telescope nudge controls on SGP seem grayed out. Could that be the problem? Am I forgetting a simple setting since I switched to the new mount?
Ajay
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