Pretty regularly, I manage to get in a situation where ekos/indi can't seem to sensibly control my Orion Atlas Pro mount. I assume I have some configuration issue, but I can't see to figure out what that might be.
I run Stellarmate OS (a release I downloaded in early December) but I get similar issues with the current sudo apt-get install version of indi & kstars on a different linux pc.
For instance, the mount will be pointed up (e.g. at orion tonight, about altitude 40-degrees) but mount control says it's pointed below the horizon and therefore won't track, and therefore won't sync. I adjust it so that it is in a position that it things is up (so it will track, so I can sync it) where that position is also up in the sky (for real) and then plate solve and sync. Kstars will then show it pointing correctly on its sky map. Then, however, if I ask it to slew to something very close by, it slews halfway across the sky.
I've tried using the Atlas Pro's handset alignment, and that works fine. But then, when hooking the mount back up to Indi/Ekos, the same problems re-occur (so I don't think the mount itself is the issue).
The time seems right in the Indi control panel's eqmod mount, site management tab (e.g. it's 11:45pm in california on 1/23, and it says UTC 2019-01-24T06:45:05 and UTC offset -8. (Actually, perhaps it should be -7, but that shouldn't cause the magnitude of error I'm seeing). Kstars shows my location and local time properly on its screen, top left and bottom left.
The Lat/Lon in the same tab says Lat 37:26:24 Lon 237:50:13 which I believe is "close" (I actually set it to Lon=-122, but it converts that to 237). Hemisphere says "North".
What usually happens is I struggle with this for an hour, finally somehow get it working via manual sync'ing, plate solving, etc, then am able to take pictures. I've taken astrophotos successfully at least 15 evenings in the past couple months, however, these problems always seem to recur sooner or later.
When I'm in such a mess, What is the procedure to "reset" and start from scratch? Is there a setting I'm missing that I should have set? Are there things I should avoid touching when in such a panic?
What is Align Method = "EQMOD Align" vs "Alignment Subsystem" in the Options tab? Is that relevant?
Should I hit "Clear sync data" in the Sync tab when the scope isn't making sense?
Happy to send logs or whatever might help solve this.
Sorry if I vented a bit
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. But in this case, the effect is rather striking. I used the stacked image to enhance the movie a bit, but I also processed it in its own right.
