The GOOD news - I have had a successful week using KStars 3.6.9 and INDI 2.06 with two very different sets of equipment (powered by a Raspberry Pi 4 and a Raspberry Pi 5) capturing comet 12P/Pons-Brooks!
The issue in the subject line refers to the manual steering of my two mounts, Sky-Watcher AZ-EQ5 and AZGTi, which both use EQMOD drivers. Whether using the virtual hand-controller, or else a Logitech F710 Gamepad joystick, there is a lot of latency (feels like seconds of time) between issuing a command and the resulting action. When capturing a comet, it is easy to steer automatically to centre the head of the comet in the FoV, but inevitably you may want to offset this point in the camera frame to capture more of the comet's tail, or to include another DSO such as in the case last week M101. Fine adjustments in position were difficult and imprecise due to the apparent hesitancy in the manual control. Am I overlooking a polling frequency setting somewhere?

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