Mount is Confused?

Firstly, does your mount know where its home position is (Not geographical location, but the actual home point… Like, If you left it at the home point, did a 2s exposure with no filter and plate solve / sync coordinates) 

Next, ensure that NINA is syncing the geographical location to the mount when you connect. It's possible that the mount does not know where it is, despite the planetarium and NINA knowing exactly where they are.

Other than that, I would manually slew the scope to a bright star, then do a manual plate solve and sync coordinates on that…. Starting your pointing model with a sync on home, and sync on one other star, It should have a fairly good idea of where it is after that.

Not sure but I think the problem may have been that the mount reports he longitude as being +108 degrees, while NINA and Stellarium show the longitude to be -108. 

I synced the mount to NINA instead of NINA to the mount, and this probably fixed it, it's daytime now so won't know until tonight.

Claudio Tenreiro:
If it helps, this happen to me when the parking position was not the same as the zero position, so when turning the mount on, the first thing I do, to solve the problem, is sending it to zero position, then everything else worked fine. Sometimes to be sure I do ask the mount to confirm the zero position.
Yes, once the scope looked for the moon pointing to the floor , but that was the problem, it assumed the parking position as zero. 
Hope it will help.
CS!
Claudio

Dear Claudio,

I am not sure what the zero position is?  Does this mean that the telescope is directed pointed toward the north celestial pole?

Jerry

Jerry Gerber:
I am not sure what the zero position is?

Zero position is an iOptron thing. It has no relevance to a 10Micron mount with absolute encoders. Your mount always knows its exact position. But it may not know where it is on this earth, so the fact that it knows its position isn't much help. Use the hand controller app to set this up. Here's the home screen:



Click "MENU":



Then scroll down to "Local Data" with the down-arrow button (the one with the minus sign above the down arrow--not the S button) and click "ENTER". You should then see this:



Then set the "Date and Time." You use the keypad numbers to enter numbers and you can use the "E" and "W" buttons to move left and right. Click "ENTER" when you're done.

The tricky one is the Local Timezone. You're in the same time zone as me, so make that -07:00:



Then be darn sure Daylight Sav is set to ON. You'll get to revisit this setting in a few months after your scope slews to and takes a nice closeup hi-res image of the electrical outlet on your observatory wall. 

Then back up one menu from the "Clock" page and go to the "Site" page. Enter the proper coordinates and elevation and you should be good to go. 

If you have an MGPBox and have GPS on in the hand controller app, the MGPBox should actually fill all that in for you. If you don't, getting the right coordinates into the mount should solve your problem. And even if you do, it's not a bad idea to set this up first time out of the chute. Then I have NINA configured like this:



This syncs NINA to what's in your scope--so everything should now agree. Send me a PM if you still have trouble with it. I've been through this five times now.