Park the AM5 with Nina

serge71310

I equipped myself with a Zwo Am5 that I pilot with Nina, everything is going well, except that at the end of the session the telescope does not Park and continues the follow-up. How do I do this?

tempus

serge71310. "Go home" will point the mount back to the celestial pole. The proper way to set a "park" position has not been documented by ZWO and I haven't read from any user how they achieved it (if it works).

AstroHelmut23

serge71310 Did you solve this? I am experiencing a strange behaviour where in my nina sequence the park command will actually slew the mount to park position but the command keeps runnikng ending in a message "Park cancelled".

serge71310

tempus le problème c'est que dans Nina, quand tu connectes l'AM5, il considère que le télescope est déjà déparquer et tu ne peux donc pas définir comme 'position de park' .

serge71310

The problem is that in Nina, when you connect the AM5, he considers that the telescope is already disengaged and so you can’t define it as 'park position'.

jhun_4748

This is happening in SGP or Voyager. Looks to me the mount needs precise alt and az coordinates to consider that the mount has parked. I created a ticket in which Simon responded and said he will test it. No response for 3 weeks.. i have sent him the logs and screenshots from asimount app, sgp and voyager.

AstroHelmut23

@jhun_4748 zwo answered to my ticket stating that in NINA 3.2 the issue should be solved. I cannot test it because I use NINA 3.1 HF2 which is the latest stable version, I'll wait the next release to test it.
In the meantime in NINA I created a custom template to handle the park which send the command and then stops waiting after 5 secs. Then starts a loop which every 5 secs checks if the scope is in Azimuth 270 0 0 and Altitude 0 0 0 (checking the + or + 1 arc sec of error). If the scope reaches the coordinates a trigger stops the loop, otherwise if I end up the time and telescope is not in expected position the sequence is aborted. Not straightforward as a working command but at least a solution

jhun_4748

AstroHelmut23 thank you. I think this problem is in the mount parking implementation. im not sure about Nina because i dont use it. SGP or Voyager is reporting same problem. My ioptron mount works perfectly after my imaging run.