Hi,
Well I would say, please try the following:
Get a star in a position with which you can do a Meridian Flip. Do an additional align ... then do a Meridian Flip ... after the Meridian Flip center the star and do an Additional Align and then tell me what does either GCC tell you.
Well it tell me that the object is not known or any other message, and before I can do an additional align on that very same object after a Meridian Flip, I have to do a new slew to the chosen object.
In order to measure the meridian flip pointing error you have to do this additional align after the meridian flip ...
I might have forgotten to include in my first post that I encountered this problem using GCC
:-)
regards Rainer
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--- In Gemini-II@..., David Mercer <david.mercer@...> wrote:
Hola Rainer
I was surprised that you asked that question given your long history
with this mount, the short answer is that Gemini does know which star
you did a flip on, this is demonstrated by the fact that the mount will
not flip if the destination is outside a limit and it could only know
this if it knows which star the flip is for.
I know you have 2 mounts is this is the case with both controllers?
Other possibilities of missed objects on a flip is no pointing model (I
assume you have one given your align then flip comment) or mirror flop
on a SCT, you say you SLEW to the object after the flip, did you mean
GOTO? if you meant GOTO then I am at a loss to the answer as this would
remove most of my argument re model or mirror flop.
Being a seasoned user I hope I am not telling you how to suck eggs ;o)
Saludos Badger
On 18/02/2011 05:02, Rainer wrote:
Hi,
I am sitting in the observatory and just detected in Gemini I the
following:
Align on a Star > Do a meridian Flip and Gemini I does not remmber on
which object the meridian flip was done. So after each meridin flip I
have to make a new slew to the object on which I made a Meridian Flip.
? Does Gemini II remember the object on which one made a Meridian Flip ?
regards Rainer
