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Autocenter fails after EQMOD meridian flip

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@PeterGoodhew

It's hard for me to be precise with an issue like this. All I can say with any amount of confidence is that something went very wrong.

Your mount is tracking and then SGPro identifies the need for a meridian flip. This is executed and requires a slew back to the current position from the other side of the mount:

[17/10/2016 23:05:08] [DEBUG] [Telescope Thread] ASCOM Telescope: Pier side is West
[17/10/2016 23:05:08] [DEBUG] [Telescope Thread] ASCOM Telescope: attempting pier flip using slew
[17/10/2016 23:05:08] [DEBUG] [Telescope Thread] Telescope: Slewing to J2000 RA: 23.8141949455969 (23h48m51.10s) Dec: 62.2020703125 (62°12'07.45")

Everything seems fine so far... Then precision centering takes over. After the flip, your mount is found to be here:

[17/10/2016 23:06:32] [DEBUG] [Telescope Thread] Solve appears to be good...
[17/10/2016 23:06:32] [DEBUG] [Telescope Thread] Telescope: Syncing to J2000 RA: 0.0715178975133333 Dec: 62.8038669924

SGPro issues the command to go here:

[17/10/2016 23:06:32] [DEBUG] [Telescope Thread] Telescope: Slewing to J2000 RA: 23.7871344925333 (23h47m13.68s) Dec: 61.4545485955 (61°27'16.37")

After this command, it is validated here though:

[17/10/2016 23:07:10] [DEBUG] [Telescope Thread] Telescope: Syncing to J2000 RA: 0.0773569682053333 Dec: 62.064135391

This is a significant error and with a scale of 5.5"/px results in a large pixel error:

[17/10/2016 23:07:10] [DEBUG] [Center Scope Thread] Retrying auto center. Total Error > Allowable error: 917243.4 > 50.0

After issuing another request to move to that location, the solve suceeds and places your scope here:

[17/10/2016 23:07:50] [DEBUG] [Telescope Thread] Telescope: Syncing to J2000 RA: 0.077390306294 Dec: 62.0646297281

You are not converging. You indicated that you followed the EQMOD setup guide with exactness, but this really looks like the dozens and dozens of logs I have seen that are fighting with the mount's modeling system. We ask it to go somewhere... that request is modified in order to conform to various modeling errors and no convergence is seen.


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