On Sat, Jan 1, 2022 at 11:56 AM Paul Kanevsky <yh@...> wrote:
Hi Dan,
This is from the Gemini 1 Level 4 manual, discussing the goto limit and safety limits:
The default value of zero means that the GoTo limit is set 2.5 degrees east of the western safety limit. Note: Use caution when setting the GoTo limit to values between 1 and 89 degrees. Such values would indicate points east of the meridian, and would mean that Gemini would try to point to objects between the GoTo limit (now in the eastern hemisphere) and the meridian with the telescope tube on the east side of the mount. It is possible that such objects would be unreachable without violating the eastern safety limit. Attempts to GoTo such objects in this situation would result in the telescope not moving, and?¡°*±õ²Ô³Ù±ð°ù°ù³Ü±è³Ù±ð»å*¡± being displayed on the hand controller.?
I suggest that you check your Goto and safety limit settings, as they are possibly preventing you from doing Goto's due to being too conservatively set.
Regards,
? ? ? -Paul
On Sat, Jan 1, 2022 at 11:22 AM, Daniel Judge wrote:
I've been using my mount in a remote installation lately, and often I will power the mount down and power up and connect to it when it's to be used.
I've just now encountered a constant interrupt message on the HC when I try to slew to stars around the sky with precise pointing and plate solving, sometimes some slews work others don't. I can't work out why it's doing this, and I've never seen this before. Everything looks to be Ok. I start Cold start from CWD, sync with GPS, and enter the correct site lat/long, I have the mount limits set to my best limits. I am in the Southern Hemisphere. From south pole position, it will slew West to some stars, Ankaa, and Achernar.. but if I tell it to slew to rigel or Orion, the software says slewing, but the mount raises an 'Interrupted' message on the HC, and it doest nothing. I'm using Gemini Level 4 v1.05 and the latest 1.0.84.0 .NET drivers.
Has anyone come across this HC message, or similar issue before?