Hi,
I'm continuing my night tests without any success, this is not as easy and straightforward as I expected
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I started the alignment procedure manually from a non-park position because indi stopped working (I had to manually hard-reboot the Raspberry PI).
The procedure I followed to 'recover' the position after reboot is:
- Take a picture with the DSLR.
- Solve it (solve-field -z 4 --overwrite file.jpg). I use this because my kstars does not solve neither jpgs nor fits files.It keeps saying that it's launching the astrometric solver or something like that.
- In the devices control panel, in the first tab of EQMod, I set the option Sync, write down the AR/DEC coordinates and press set. I made this Mars.
- In kstars, the EQMod label moves to the correct position.
But then, if I move to my target, the region around Coma cluster, in the real life the mount moves to the horizon, only slighly above it. Just in the opposite direction (I think only in DEC, but I'm not 100% sure).
I tried to solve the new image (with success) and sync it. Then if I move to Mars, it moves correctly. But I cannot move to Coma as I wanted, because it keeps moving to the wrong direction. It seems to affect only DEC ???.
Am I doing something wrong here?. Is this the correct way to align the mount?.
Do I need to select Reverse DEC or something like that?. I'm using a normal EQdir cable.
I'm trying reverse DEC now, but it seems that INDI stopped working again (the imaging devices stopped answering)
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