I found with my Gemini on my MI250 That I have to do additional align, several on each side of the Meridian, Before it would point accurately. And the closer you can get the polar alignment the better but if you don¡¯t get the polar alignment as close as possible and do multiple additional alignments then plate solving will be a real problem.?
Hi all,
I am running Gemini 2, and I did a rough polar alignment on my mount. It consistently off by 20-40 degrees in RA and similar in DEC. I have had the Gemini 2 setup to do:
1) Warm Restarts
2) "Sync Performs additional align" is turned on.
3) My site: Lat: N 39 24.92 Long: W 119 46.47 Time Zone: UTC-8 PST/YDT
My mount does not find the target after successful platesolves and syncs.
I think that tonight I'd like to set the Gemini 2 to:
1) Cold Restarts, and?
2) Turn OFF "Sync Performs additional align".
NINA is setup to sync with mount at platesolves.
If this is the solution, great, but I'd like to hear from you guys if there is other issues (like getting a precise polar alignment) that could be causing this.
Clear Skies,
Paul
