Hi Che, Thank you for asking. The answer is actually yes, Dan has fixed the 'mirror slew' bug in version 95V which is excellent. Currently however, I'm still not able to use my mount in GEM mode for

Curious if this has been resolved.

Dan swiftly pointed out the issue we were having. We simply had the Planewave STI software set to the incorrect com port in the configuration settings. Setting it to the correct port fixed the

We purchased a Planewave CDK 17 telescope with an Ascension HR200 German equatorial mount controlled by the Servo II of Sidereal Technology about 10 years ago. We have recently encountered a problem

Hi David, Star trails! You can use them to calculate the position angle for double stars. An old fashioned use was to measure seeing. Though I admit, my purpose here is looking for hints what might be

Mark, I've experienced similar issues and frustrations related to starting/stopping/restarting tracking, so you're not alone. Some may be due to confusing/contradictory instructions and some due to me

Ah, that would make sense. So if the DragNTrack bit is set, basic tracking would start at power up but still not interfere with the operation of, say, the Nexus DSC. Unfortunately, there might be

If the controller gets a command to move the mount from the serial port, it will drop out of dragNTrack mode. Dan

That is, indeed, the behavior I expected, but it does not seem to be what I'm observing. For example, I synced to Segin (epsilon cass) a few minutes ago. At my latitude, azimuth should be about 331

I put the controller in DragNTrack mode. I pointed towards celestial north pole, powered up, held ESC button on handpad until controller LED flashed. Then I navigated away from north and could hear

Thanks! When the weather is better I will make a video and a tracking log. Sadly the forecast says rain for many days. :-( Joerg

Apologies for the delay. Not too many clear skies this August! Thanks Don. Checked Lats & Longs in Sitech, SGP & TSX. All the same. I'm in the UK. Excellent pointer Dan. The Single Phot Init from

Thank you, Dan. I'll check the version and try slowing the slew. Jim

Hi Jim, Try lowering the slew speed. If it can't keep up (due to lack of gear mesh or lube), it could very well be jerky. Normally those mounts came with a servoII, you can look at the firmware

Joerg, A tracking log will be a good tool. You'll be able to see if it's servo position error for sure. Do you have a video camera, or a fast cmos camera? It would be really simple to make a video

Hi Mark, v3.9 is a servoI firmware version I think. I think you are using a fairly recent version because of one of your prior posts. In the numbers tab, the alt and az are the actual altitude and

There have been several mentions of the Sitech controlled Mathis mounts. I've sent these questions to Mathis, but I'm not sure anyone is home. I don't know of anywhere else to discuss this

Hi Jesse, Yes, that is an excellent point. Use the Tracking log to see the numbers showing the motion of scope while tracking a target. Don W

On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 12:31 PM, wrote: an issue with small star drift around the right star position.Assuming the issue ultimately isn't encoder resolution (or interpolation) have you collected log

Jesse, I tried a new PXP model but no difference to the old one. Joerg