Hi Guys,
Is there anyone using indi / Kstars / Ekos with a Takahashi Temma 2 mount out there? I'm struggling with getting my NJP synchronized. After I polar align the mount on polaris, I start up indi/Kstars and point my telescope to a bright star like Vega. Since I'm doing this in the late summer / early fall, Vega is on the west side of the meridian. When I do this, two strange things can happen. Either is synchronizes on Vega and when I ask the mount to go to a nearby star like Deneb, it goes in the opposite direction. The other thing that can happen is that I synchronize on Vega and I lose the crosshairs. At first I couldn't figure out what is going on, but then later found that they were on the pointed 180 degrees off. i.e., under the horizon in the green zone in Kstars.
Is there anyone else out there using a Takahashi mount with the Temma 2 controller running into the same problem? I've been struggling with this issue since late September and it still doesn't work. I don't know if I'm doing something wrong. However, before I tried using indi/Kstars/Ekos, I was using Cartes du Ciel with the ASCOM driver for my Takahashi mount and followed the same synchronizaiton/initialization procedure and it worked just fine. I just had to tell the ASCOM driver which side (East or West) the OTA was on when I synchronized on the star that I chose.
Thanks,
-Gene
Is there anyone using indi / Kstars / Ekos with a Takahashi Temma 2 mount out there? I'm struggling with getting my NJP synchronized. After I polar align the mount on polaris, I start up indi/Kstars and point my telescope to a bright star like Vega. Since I'm doing this in the late summer / early fall, Vega is on the west side of the meridian. When I do this, two strange things can happen. Either is synchronizes on Vega and when I ask the mount to go to a nearby star like Deneb, it goes in the opposite direction. The other thing that can happen is that I synchronize on Vega and I lose the crosshairs. At first I couldn't figure out what is going on, but then later found that they were on the pointed 180 degrees off. i.e., under the horizon in the green zone in Kstars.
Is there anyone else out there using a Takahashi mount with the Temma 2 controller running into the same problem? I've been struggling with this issue since late September and it still doesn't work. I don't know if I'm doing something wrong. However, before I tried using indi/Kstars/Ekos, I was using Cartes du Ciel with the ASCOM driver for my Takahashi mount and followed the same synchronizaiton/initialization procedure and it worked just fine. I just had to tell the ASCOM driver which side (East or West) the OTA was on when I synchronized on the star that I chose.
Thanks,
-Gene