Hi,
I am using an ASIAir Mini with a Skywatcher EQ AL55i mount connected via the serial cable (could not get any other connection to work properly). I can control the mount from the ASIAir app and I got my camera and focus set up. Plate solving works and produces correct results as far as I can tell.
I do not have visibility on Polaris although I am on the northern hemisphere. I am working from my balcony where my viewing angles are highly restricted. So I enabled the new polar alignment functionality. I set up my mount so that it faces roughly northward and the inclination matches my geographic latitude. I am pretty confident that I am not absurdly far off.
I set up the telescope to look in such a way that the rotation performed by the polar alignment function will always look at the sky. Then I went into polar alignment mode. The system took the three images and plate solved them. I have to assume reasonably correct.
Then I get the targeting diagram and it tells me I am way off. Like 90 degree horizontally and 50 degree vertically. Something that is completely unreasonable. So, something must be wrong. Any ideas what it could be?
I am coming from a smart telescope background where I just point the device somewhere in the sky, it does a few shots and then tells me how to rotate it. That always works without any problems. I was assuming kind of the same to be the case here.
Thanks for any ideas.
I am using an ASIAir Mini with a Skywatcher EQ AL55i mount connected via the serial cable (could not get any other connection to work properly). I can control the mount from the ASIAir app and I got my camera and focus set up. Plate solving works and produces correct results as far as I can tell.
I do not have visibility on Polaris although I am on the northern hemisphere. I am working from my balcony where my viewing angles are highly restricted. So I enabled the new polar alignment functionality. I set up my mount so that it faces roughly northward and the inclination matches my geographic latitude. I am pretty confident that I am not absurdly far off.
I set up the telescope to look in such a way that the rotation performed by the polar alignment function will always look at the sky. Then I went into polar alignment mode. The system took the three images and plate solved them. I have to assume reasonably correct.
Then I get the targeting diagram and it tells me I am way off. Like 90 degree horizontally and 50 degree vertically. Something that is completely unreasonable. So, something must be wrong. Any ideas what it could be?
I am coming from a smart telescope background where I just point the device somewhere in the sky, it does a few shots and then tells me how to rotate it. That always works without any problems. I was assuming kind of the same to be the case here.
Thanks for any ideas.
