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With my backyard view it's best if I can have the scope hang to the east to start the night. I use kstars/ekos/indi connected to skysafari to select and slew to a target. It usually seems to end up with the scope hanging west. I usually have to use the manual control in skysafari to position it close to the target, and then slew to it. I'm assuming that scope position is determined by my GeminiII system on the GM811G (couple years old). Is there a setting to prefer positioning the scope to the east??

Jamie
 

Hi Jamie

I am not sure what you mean by "telescope hanging" - I assume you mean pier side i.e., pier side east or west

If so, the target has to be reachable on both sides of pier.?

After startup, you can try slewing the mount so it's slightly pier side east (telescope on eastern side, I think your preferred starting point) and then do your goto routine.?

The Gemini prefers to stay on same side of pier, so after you startup and sidereal is engaged, the telescope has already moved a little bit to pier side west

Brian
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On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 4:14 PM Jamie Amendolagine <jamie.amendolagine@...> wrote:
With my backyard view it's best if I can have the scope hang to the east to start the night. I use kstars/ekos/indi connected to skysafari to select and slew to a target. It usually seems to end up with the scope hanging west. I usually have to use the manual control in skysafari to position it close to the target, and then slew to it. I'm assuming that scope position is determined by my GeminiII system on the GM811G (couple years old). Is there a setting to prefer positioning the scope to the east??

Jamie



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Thanks Brian, that's what I meant. So next time I'll try and manually? slew a bit east before slewing to the target.?

Jamie
 

Jamie,

Make sure your Go To Limit allows you to point to items a bit east of the meridian with the scope on the east side.? For example, if your east and west limits are each 100 degrees, you can set your go to limit at 15 degrees (which is 5 degrees before the meridian).? That will let the go to command in EKOS point at anything with an hour angle greater than -20 minutes with the scope on the east side.? This setting will also ensure that a meridian flip can occur anytime the pointing position is beyond this limit.

RD Beck

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