Re: Telescope tracking not working?

PeterTurcan — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:34:09 GMT

Sorry for the delay in replying, and also for having no answer for you yet. We intend to start working on the ASCOM interface and physical telescope connection shortly - and this post is just to let you know your issues, and those of a few correspondents with earlier posts, have not gone unnoticed.

Hopefully our future posts on issues like this will be more helpful!

Telescope tracking not working?

tomb18 — Fri, 01 May 2009 00:18:52 GMT

Hi,

I have installed Ascom and chosen the Scope similator as the telescope. My system works fine with ascom and the POTH Hub as well. Without WWT, my real scope (Gemini mount) and my dome driver all work correctly with POTH.

Now, with WWT, using the similator to keep it simple, everything seems to work. I can slew, I can select center etc. However, WWT never seems to track the telescope. In other words, I can see the sky rotation in WWT even though I have selected " track telescope" The coordinates that WWT shows are in fact following the scope, but the sky is moving past. If I click on center, then the "sky" will jump back to the place the scope is acutally pointing.

As a matter of fact, the "track telescope" doesn't seem to do anything..

Any ideas what is going on? It seems to me that the sky is nott tracking the telescope position in real time and just drifting.

Thanks

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Telescope tracking not working?