Hi everyone.

First forgive my poor English....

I usually perform 1. slew to target , 2. capture and solve, 3. adjust focus(menual), 4. autoguide 5. capture (I don't do polar align)


I read the tutorial of caputer module ( www.indilib.org/about/ekos/capture-modul...ml#h4-limit-settings )

and in meridian flip,

they say

Meridian Flip: If supported by the mount, set the hour angle limit (in hours) before a meridian flip is commanded. For example, if you set the meridian flip duration to 0.1 hours. Ekos shall wait until the mount passes the meridian by 0.1 hours (6 minutes), then it commands the mount to perform a meridian flip. After the meridian flip is complete, Ekos re-aligns using astrometry.net (if alignment was used) and resumes guiding (if it was started before) and then resumes the capture process automatically.

I'm wondering about the word "using astrometry.net(if alignment was used)"

what exactly the word "astrometry.net" is?
a kind of website?
So it must need to connetion with internet?

I use my raspberry Pi + ubunt mate without internet connection.
Does that mean I can't experience full-auto meridian flip, and capture and solve, and auto guiding, and capture??

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