This week I updated to L6, and tonight was my first night out. Immediately I encounter an odd error that I previously had when I first got my mount. This was best emphasized in N.I.N.A. when I attempted to slew to M81 through the framing tool. First I start getting this error "DEC coordinate is invalid or inaccessible". To be honest I was messing around so much I do not know what I changed that got rid of this error.? But what came next has me perplexed, and this is what I was experiencing when I first got my mount:
So M81 is RA 09 & DEC +69 (per Cartes du Ciel). In Framing tool NINA reports the same. But what NINA slews to is this:
05/18/2024 23:28:31 ? ? ? ?09:58:45 ? ?49¡ã 24' 17" ? ?19¡ã 47' 52" ? ?-00:03:46 ? ?19¡ã 47' 33" ? ?-2390.23 ? ?50267.75 ? ?179.38612877930223
Cartes is showing the cursor right over M81, yet plate solving is way off. Better yet it does slew to correct and I get this:
05/18/2024 23:28:05 ? ? ? ?09:25:10 ? ?89¡ã 21' 45" ? ?20¡ã 10' 27" ? ?00:03:42 ? ?-20¡ã 10' 27" ? ?2347.97 ? ?-51221.63 ? ?171.84309889679707
And it goes right back to where it started and?
05/18/2024 23:27:39 ? ? ? ?09:49:14 ? ?48¡ã 36' 51" ? ?20¡ã 35' 31" ? ?00:05:44 ? ?20¡ã 34' 48" ? ?3640.97 ? ?52263.55 ? ?179.40811750502564
I restarted Gemini multiple times, even did "Reset SRAM to Factory Defaults". I went to Gemini site and double checked my address to get the coordinates
Latitude & Longitude:
45:03:52 ? -94:02:40
From the mount:
Longitude ? ?-94¡ã02'40
Latitude ? ?+45¡ã03'52
I even tried messing with the time zone offset changing from -5 to -6. This was the problem I had when I first got the mount. I would slew to a target and I would be off as if my time was off my 3-4 hours. Stranger still when I slewed to M101 up around Meridian at this time, my telescope was pointing south when, as if my location was off. Another strange sign was when I slewed to Alp Lyr which was about 35 degrees yet the telescope started to slew as if it was something odd like 5 degrees altitude. I do have a NTP server, and it does appear to sync. The mount currently reports accurately the time from the web UI.?
One thing to note that I do not believe would have been a factor. I did get the side by side but I don't see how that would have affected anything except if some weird bug in new L6 firmware when rotating DEC.??