Richard Wesson created a new topic ' Meridian Flip fails' in the forum. 2 years ago

Last night, I was out trying to photograph galaxies in Makarians Chain. The object in question was crossing the meridian and Ekos appeared to send a signal to carry out a meridian flip. As can be seen on the attached log from a time of 2022-03-26T00:25:25.999 when this was initiated, it failed (log is the relevant part - whole log to large to attach). It subsequently retried and failed again. I tried to park the scope and execute a go to following several failure, but the mount kept going back to the west side of the pier when it was originally and although meriidan flip was initiated, it repeatedly failed. This is a real problem, as I cannot leave the mount tracking with the camera on the west side of the pier on this target as the dslr will hit the legs of the mount. Could somebody look at the logs and tell me if I have a setting wrong? Alternatively, is there a way to effectively do a manual meriidian flip to force the scope to the other side of the pier?

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