Dear all,

sorry for my late reply. It was just not possible for me earlier to come back to any test with this mount.

First of all, thank you for the tips and the update to the manual.

I now learned, the the mount does the meridian flip by itself. In my case problem was the time, that was not properly set.
On the mount, I used the local time, in INDI too, but in between I used the Ascom-driver in windows. The "update mount-time"-feature leads to an time-offset in the mounts hand-controller. Afterwards, of course the mount believed, that it doesn't has to do the meridian flip.
So, to properly run the astrophysics driver, one has to be sure, that the mounts hand-controller has the same time, like the operating system as well as Kstars.

The mount now works well. Thank you again very much!

Nevertheless, I observed some little bugs regarding the manual as well as with astrophysics legacy driver:

1.) Parking: The park-position can be defined properly. In my case it is "park4" (Alt=0°, Az=180°). The telescope slews directly to those coordinates and finishes the movement. Unfortunately INDI ist waiting for some communication with the mount, even if the mount has stopped (I waited for one minute).

By the way, the manual explains, that custom park-positions are supported. Later it explains that it assumes that the mount parks in the "park3" position. What is true?

2.) Polar alignment with EKOS: the camera takes one image and the solver runs successfully. Afterwards the mount rotates the scope. Unfortunately after this motion is completed the software waits for something that never comes. There is no possibility to tell the script, that the motion is already completed, so it hangs forever.

3.) Motion-control - In EKOS the motion buttons are working fine you click, the mount moves, you click again, the mount stops moving. Unfortunately the "abort-button" is in the "Main-control" section, so it is risky to use this feature.
In other INDI-clients, like "Skychart", or "Indi-starter" this feature does not work. The mount starts moving by the first click, but can only be stopped or reversed after using the "abort-button" in the "main-control-window".

4.) To initialize the scope the date and time has once to be specified. I would like to see a little information on the date-time format the driver accepts. Without trying kstars it was not possible to find this out. For me it is unclear why there is no button with "use system time".

Regards,
Daniel

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