What power supply for the mount do you use? I have noticed slewing problems with my HEQ5 using an EQMod cable when the mount couldn't get enough power. the red light on the mount, next to the power cable, would blink in such a case. It *needs* to be steadily alight.


Clear skies, Wouter

Don´t know which power supply it is, but I will observe the red light tonight.
Thanks for the hint.

Sounds like the problem has nothing to do with the platesolving. Sounds like the mount is just not unparked. Doublecheck that first.

I also had the experience from time to time, that „sync“ was working better then „slew to target“

When you click on track, does the red crosshair move and just the mount does not? Or is the crosshair not moving too?

Cheers
Niki


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Yesterday my mount moved!

When I started Ekos and then Indi, the mount is already unparked.

I right-clicked on a star ->chose EQmod mount ->track.
Then the mount moved to Betelgeuse. Unfortunately it was cloudy, so I could not test the plate solving.

I think my error was, that after right-clicking the star I directly did capture & solve in the Indi alignment module.

But one additional question: What it the difference between track, slew and sync when right-clicking in the sky map?

Track: Follow the movement of the object in the sky due to the rotation of the Earth
Slew: Move from the current position to the selected object
Sync: Inform the mount of the current coordinates it is pointing to. The mount may or may not think it is already pointing there but from then on it will.

I wasn't aware that clicking Track also involved a Slew. The behaviour that your mount shows, seems to indicate that I usually enable tracking in the Mount tab and then always use Slew to make the mount point at a different object.

Thanks a lot!

So "Track" does only make sense, when a star alignment has been done before?

Not necessarily. When clicking Track or Slew the mount will be ordered to first slew to the selected object. In both cases the pointing will be poor if no star alignment has been done before.

Ah, thanks!

Does anybody know, why the mount when I want to park, after doing some slewings, does not move to the initial park position when enabling the mount?
... but to a complete other direction!

You need to set the park location. Simply make sure that the counter weight is pointing down and the telescope to Polaris and start Ekos. In the Ekos configuration pop up select Site Management en click on Default in the Park Options row and then op Write. This will save the location to the mount.

Please could you send me a screenshot? Would be very kind, because I cannot find anything you described.
Thanks in advance!

After you start KStars, start Ekos:



Start INDI:



In the popup that opens then, go to EQMod (the screen shot shows Telescope Simulator since I am too lazy to connect any of my mounts) and select Site Management. Then first click Default and then Write Data:

Thank you very much !!!

But I haven´t got these options: