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Hi, Folks, I have a Losmandy GM8G using the Gemini II with the latest firmware update. I am using the polar scope and drift alignment only. After a 4 star model building, I instructed the Gemini II to point to M42. However, the pointing was off by about 2 degrees. The only thing I can think of is that all of the stars I used in the model building were in the northern celestial hemisphere and M42 is in the southern celestial hemisphere. Am I correct or am I doing something wrong? Any feedback would be appreciated. My procedure is to use the polar scope for initial polar alignment, then do a drift alignment. After that I turn off the mount, go back to pointing North/counterweight down position, turn the mount on again and do the model building. I am manually entering in my position and time. By the way, does anyone have a good reference for drift alignment technique? Any ideas would be appreciated. Best Wishes and clear skies, Russ

Hi, group, I'm hoping this has been solved before. I was trying to track on the sun. During the process I realized that to correct for the sun's drift in time I had to use the dec button on the hand control. I assume I'm not the first to experience this. I'm hoping this is a battery problem. Any suggestions? Thanks, Tim. I checked the basics, I was using the AC power supply. 1. Time in the Hand Control was wrong on startup and was corrected. 2. The UTC time zone was wrong on start up and was corrected. 3. the site's Longitude and Latitude was correct on start up.

I have searched here for "COLD WEATHER TRACKING PROBLEMS" without any success. Here in Maryland the weather has been as low as 4 deg F and in teens at night - rare for us. I have a G11 remotely controlled in roro observatory. I'm getting stall notices first in RA and the next night in RA and DEC. I tried adjusting the worm gears and still had the same issue which I have never had in the past 9 years. Electrical supply is very robust. Balance hasn't changed that I can tell. Maybe time to upgrade motors...? Any thoughts or ideas would be most appreciated. Oh these cold dry nights are awesome for us here in the Free State. Thanks, Bob

G11T w/Gemini 2, new since last May, permanenty mounted on pier. I wanted to check PA last night in NINA. It moved to the first position then almost froze, I think went to tracking speed. When I checked it a couple of months ago it worked fine. Did a setting change since then? Thanks, Frank Coster

I've been having problems with the mount (GM811G) stopping tracking (or not starting?) after a slew or plate solve. This has happened many times (seen it in 30 imaging sessions?). Problems usually follow a meridian flip. Interesting that slews and plate solves at the beginning of an imaging session are seldom impacted. And it does not happen all the time with meridian flips -- I see it for about half the autofocus runs which occur after a meridian flip and for about a quarter of the plate solves (which occur after the autofocus). I am using NINA to control the imaging session and NINA is commanding the slews and plate solves. Tracking failures are easy to spot -- seeing star trails in the images NINA is displaying. My usual solution to the problem is to toggle tracking off and then on again using the Gemini controller (on the PC, not using the hand controller). Note that the tracking box on Gemini shows tracking to be on -- even if I know that it is off. I am wondering if NINA and Gemini are having issues with each trying to control the pause after a slew. Gemini has a control for this: "Slew Settle Time" and NINA has a control for this: "Settle Time After Slew". How should these parms be set? Use NINA or use Gemini? I would assume that Gemini parameter should be less than the NINA parameter -- if the other way around NINA would start issuing commands and the mount might ignore them since it was paused. I have a full Gemini troubleshooting log from my previous imaging session where the problem occurred three times. Any helpful advice? I can provide the logs if requested. Thanks -- Jim

Been using my G11/C11 setup for DSO with NINA for a couple years. A few months ago I changed com from USB to Ethernet to connect to the G11. Works great. Now I'm doing planetary with FireCapture. As you all know it is difficult to get a planet centered for imaging. I can't seem to open the Gemini Telescope software control while FireCapture is open. It errors. If I close FC, Gemini Telescope will connect right up. Note: Once the planet is centered, FC can center and track it just fine. I'd like to be able to Find and Center the planet with the Gemini software control. Is it possible to do this ? I'm trying to do as much of this remotely from in the house, as the temp is in the teens here at night. Also I have seen on some YouTube videos that EQMOD has a Spiral Search feature for finding an object, like a planet. Does Gemini Telescope have anything like this ? Gary

Hi, Last night I was trying to park the mount and I kept getting "PDEC out of range" errors popping up from the ASCOM Gemini driver. The mount wouldn't park so I turned it off and will level it today. Any thoughts on this error as I have not seen it before and I only saw one other reference in a groups.io thread. I have the latest firmware and ASCOM driver (GeminiTelescope) installed? As I have recently had some issues that I ended up thinking was a lan cable, I am kinda guessing this may be related to a faulty DEC cable or connection. Any triage thoughts appreciated. Ken

Everybody, Please let me add my best wishes! Many thanks to all those who made the development of Gemini Level 6 possible with a lot of patience, knowledge and skill and to all those who helped to test the new firmware, find bugs and made suggestions for features and improvements! Many thanks also to everyone who helped others. What a great community, Paul, David, Brendan, Scott, Tanya, Larry and Delaney, Chip and all the dedicated people in the Gemini Universe! It's a pleasure to be a part of it! A prosperous, healthy, happy and peaceful new year to you all! Best wishes, René PS: David, Brendan, I do love your fine sense of humor! Keep on! 8) Am 31.12.24 um 10:56 schrieb Brendan via groups.io: Thanks David. I’d knew you’d pipe up as I am not privy to the gore of the code. But yes it gave more torque. Us damn “Aussies” we manage to upset most of the world And apologise more than once! We’ll have a new year before you ….wohoo….winning!. Happy new year toDavid, Paul, Rene’, Chip, Michael, all crew at Losmandy and all good folk helping on these forums. May 2025 be a good’un to all cheers -- Brendan

Hi I have a G11 with G2 from 2012. I just updated the Gemini 2 Firmware using the GFU software today. I was using the old Firmware Version Level 1.20 Hand Controller and Level 5.21 Main Unit version quite well with no issues at all I now get the "Dec Heavy Duty Tr Error" and beeping constantly? This occurs immediately after i press restart. I never got this error before, ever. The Dec is balanced and I checked Dec worm. DEC Motor is not warm or straining. . It happens in most OTA positions, ie parked CMD or pointing west, and even with the RA tracking turned off? I played with increasing the Dec tracking lag (under servo motors) from 30 to 500, in even steps and it does stop beeping with the error. Appears to be a bug with the new firmware? not sure. Any other suggestions?. Is there anyway i can go back to older firmwear version ? Thanks for your suggestions Domenic

Hello and Merry Christmas Happy Hannukah. With the G2 and no PemPro (Mac computer), how do I select a specific PEC curve to use? I recently saved a few curves, two for each side of the meridian. I looked at the SD card, and saw those four files plus the "current" one. I am connected, via ethernet, to view the G2 internal web page. So when the PEC is turned on in the handset, which PEC file is used (current)? If the G2 selects the current file, how do we know what sky location file it has used? I also just installed, on my mac an ftp app. Will that allow me to view the PEC file details? Thanks for any help with this. Fred Goodman