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Re: Mount HELP!!
Russ, When I have have experienced issues like this there are two basic things to try. First replace the coin battery in the Gemini Unit. You're probably in the Northern Hemisphere where it's winter
By John Kmetz · #69778 ·
Re: Mount HELP!!
Russ, Assuming you are cold starting in the CWD position you may have a time issue between local time and UT. Paul
By Paul Homer · #69777 ·
Re: Mount HELP!!
Russ, Is you mount in the telescope CWD position when you do a cold start? Paul
By Paul Homer · #69776 ·
Re: Mount HELP!!
I know this sounds crazy, but check that you do not have the RA and Dec cables switched. ?I have done this. ?More than once. Check your time zone. ?I found that setting the time zone to 00, and the
By deitzelj · #69775 ·
Re: Mount HELP!!
Thanks Brian.? I have a cheat sheet created identifying exactly those checks and I verified a number of time all setting are correct (via handheld).? Going back outside again and starting all
By Russ · #69774 ·
Re: Mount HELP!!
Hi Russ Sorry to hear this, that sounds super frustrating It's definitely sounding like a setting somewhere, so here are some ideas: First, I recommend using the hand controller to enter your
By Brian Valente · #69773 ·
Re: Mount HELP!!
Confused here.? After entering Site Lat, Long and Time, I would expect any mount to at least slew to an area of the sky 'near' the target first (I did complete an excellent polar alignment last
By Russ · #69772 ·
Re: Mount HELP!!
Have you polar aligned it and built a pointing model as yet? And cold starting it wipes the slate clean. I had weird problems like yours when I got started with the mount. But the Gemini does need to
By Gregory Latiak · #69771 ·
Mount HELP!!
I am so damn furious with my mount right now!!? I had to do a cold restart and verified my site info; Lat, Long and time.? Rebooted Mount and verify settings are saved and correct. 1)? I tell the
Re: G11G and Polar Alignment
You want the mount ON and tracking at sidereal otherwise your stars will blur and/or lose their position and your Polar alignment will suffer Brian [email protected]> wrote: -- Brian Brian Valente
By Brian Valente · #69768 ·
G11G and Polar Alignment
I used SharpCap Polar Alignment tool last night for the first time and my PA down to like 10 seconds showing Excellent result.? Today, I looked at somemore YouTube videos and thought I heard someone
By Russ · #69767 ·
Re: Using Stellarium to Align/Synch on a Bright Star [was: Slewing to target strangely]
Michael Your alternative approach using Stellarium in combination with the Ascom Gemini.net applet to select Bright Stars to align/synch your G11/G-1 on is something I am very interested in but have
By Terry Pullen · #69766 ·
Re: Vela
great detail! i'll have to check this out more closely wrote: -- Brian Brian Valente portfolio brianvalentephotography.com <http://brianvalentephotography.com>
By Brian Valente · #69765 ·
Vela
This is around an area passing close to the zenith here about half way between orion and the southern cross. It's not too far from Canopus. There's a lot of very faint stuff in there. More often than
By [email protected] · #69764 ·
Re: Pole master on G11 with Digital Drives
You know this is a funny issue. Years ago when I got the PoleMaster there were issues with the drivers. It was related to power saving features of the PC but a workaround I found that worked was to
Re: Entering HIP Star Coordinates Using Hand Controller?
Ken Yes! It worked. There's a little action button that you have to select to display the html list and its default is a list that you can't download in Android. Unless you know to put in ** and stl
By crocco1250 · #69762 ·
Re: Entering HIP Star Coordinates Using Hand Controller?
Just jumping back into this post.? I want to thank everybody for replying and Brian for posting his HIP database.? Thanks everybody...!
By Jim Waters <jimwaters@...> · #69761 ·
Re: NCP and CWD
it Polar Alignment tool, adjust my PA to obtain excellent results and it only took a few minutes. sharpcap is a great tool for polar alignment. if that is what you intended to do re: your previous
By Brian Valente · #69760 ·
Re: NCP and CWD
Thanks for the info.? I was able to get a break in the clouds tonight and using SharpCap and it Polar Alignment tool, adjust my PA to obtain excellent results and it only took a few minutes.? Will
Re: Slewing to target strangely
No problem. We, as a group, are at the limit of allocated storage space (1GB). This means that as new files are posted, older ones will be deleted. I¡¯ll remove the MAPUG file, as I assume it¡¯s
By Paul Kanevsky · #69758 ·