Hello folks,?
Despite using the latest 2018 Beta firmware and the ASCOM SP1 drivers, I still had the problem where issuing a goto under Stellarium causes the mount to run off in some random direction, and there was no STOP button available on the hand controller, so I had to quickly shut off the mount.? The problem seems to be due to a PHD2 setting about "stop guiding when mount begins slewing".? I accidentally left that unchecked when setting up a new profile, so it was probably the source of the problem.? Usually this happens when I only need to move over a little bit, like centering a nearby bright star to use a Bahtinov focus mask.? And I can't be expected to remember to turn off guiding every time.
Still, I don't really know why it happened.? Maybe PHD tries to apply some guiding pulses, but that shouldn't cause the mount to go flying off.? Second, why is it that the mount can go at full slew speed but doesn't give me a STOP button in this case?? It's reasons like this that I don't trust Gemini2 for fully remote imaging.
