Yesterday, in the evening I decided to finally test Ekos in action and image C/2014 Q2. But I got out of luck in the very beginning...
Today, on a calm and fresh head I decided to properly investigate what the heck is wrong.
Problem consists of 2 parts - one from the telescope side and one from the INDI side.
I don't know why but our CGE Pro mount has gone crazy - if setting up local time as expected (current local time, Daylight Savings and Zone 2) telescope is positioning to the point there the desired object was 2 hours ago... Strange indeed! I tried to put Universal Time - it helped, telescope is getting to the object. If someone can help me understand what I am doing wrong with the setting up and how to fix it I will be very thankful!
In the morning I made full update of the mount and hand controller - no changes. Ok, now it is Universal Time set up and everything looks fine. I tried MaximDL 5 - it shows the correct position, changing to another object and back to the initial shows no problems. After that I switched to Linux... and here we start even stranger things!
After connecting to the telescope there are 2 things which frustrates me completely. First - KStars's cross-marks of the telescope is pointed at the object's position 1 hour ahead. The other one - time of the hand control is changed (!). Instead of Universal Time I get Zone 2, Daylight Savings switched to Standard Time and even the clock is moved 1 hour ahead (but from yesterday "fight" I observed that's not always the case - there can be no clock shift, it depends on the settings before the connection)! How this is even possible, I haven't found anything related in the description of the protocol... Trying to move from KStars results in positioning of the telescope 1 hour backward... This is not the end! After going to the hand control and choosing the same object KStars is moving cross-mark where it should actually be. Any movements done from KStars after that are OK.
So, here are the questions:
1) How to fix problem with the time-site? (NexStar owners, help me please! Google isn't of the big help...)
2) Why time-site is changed by INDI?
3) Why initial positioning is wrong in KStars?
And that's not all I found yesterday, again... But it is time to create a new thread![:)]( ":)")
Today, on a calm and fresh head I decided to properly investigate what the heck is wrong.
Problem consists of 2 parts - one from the telescope side and one from the INDI side.
I don't know why but our CGE Pro mount has gone crazy - if setting up local time as expected (current local time, Daylight Savings and Zone 2) telescope is positioning to the point there the desired object was 2 hours ago... Strange indeed! I tried to put Universal Time - it helped, telescope is getting to the object. If someone can help me understand what I am doing wrong with the setting up and how to fix it I will be very thankful!
In the morning I made full update of the mount and hand controller - no changes. Ok, now it is Universal Time set up and everything looks fine. I tried MaximDL 5 - it shows the correct position, changing to another object and back to the initial shows no problems. After that I switched to Linux... and here we start even stranger things!
After connecting to the telescope there are 2 things which frustrates me completely. First - KStars's cross-marks of the telescope is pointed at the object's position 1 hour ahead. The other one - time of the hand control is changed (!). Instead of Universal Time I get Zone 2, Daylight Savings switched to Standard Time and even the clock is moved 1 hour ahead (but from yesterday "fight" I observed that's not always the case - there can be no clock shift, it depends on the settings before the connection)! How this is even possible, I haven't found anything related in the description of the protocol... Trying to move from KStars results in positioning of the telescope 1 hour backward... This is not the end! After going to the hand control and choosing the same object KStars is moving cross-mark where it should actually be. Any movements done from KStars after that are OK.
So, here are the questions:
1) How to fix problem with the time-site? (NexStar owners, help me please! Google isn't of the big help...)
2) Why time-site is changed by INDI?
3) Why initial positioning is wrong in KStars?
And that's not all I found yesterday, again... But it is time to create a new thread
