ASIAIR does funny things after reverse meridian Flip

Sonixx

Dear ASIAIR users,

first I have been using the ASIAR with an Skywatcher AZ-EQ5 for year without any problems.
Since a couple of imaging sessions I am also using the Rainbow Astro RST-300 with my ASIAIR. Before I used SGPRO with this mount, also without problems.

Now to the Problem:

I have two Objects in my plan mode.
Object one: 25 Cephei, imaging starts east of meridian.
-Centering, Auto Fokus, guiding and imaging works as expected
-Meridian Flip
-Centering, Auto Fokus, guiding and imaging continues to work as expected

Now the second object starts
-New Object is on the east, so the mount performed a "reverse" Meridian Flip.
This is where the double starts. All images from now on are hugely trailed in RA only. I am not sure if tracking is off or RA guiding commands are reversed.

This behavior always happens when doing such a reversed Meridian Flip. Currently it can be solved only by stopping everything, delete calibration data and then re-start. But for this I have to wake up in the middle of the night to do this.

I have the option to re-calibrate after meridian flip on (Tried off as well, no change).

Not sure what the problem exactly is, but maybe someone can help with a solution.

Here is the log file of said imaging session.

autorun-log-2023-09-25-205921.txt

40kB

Sonixx

@Tech@ZWO

Can you please have a look at this Problem?

Thanks and best regards,

Stephan

Sonixx

@Tech@ZWO
I hope you had a good holiday. Perhaps you could have a look at my issue.
It will be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Stephan

Corsair

What happens if you tell it to Go Home before going to the next target?

Sonixx

I suppose it might work. But still I would need to set an alarm Clock to do this in the middle of the night.
This kind of defeats the purpose
😉

Sonixx

@PMTeam@ZWO

Dear ZWO Team, still hoping for a reply. Meanwhile I got an AM3 for my second rig, here I do not have the problem.
This must be a specific problem between ASIAIR and RST-300 mount. As the RST runs just fine with SGPro and the AM3 and AZ-EQ5 runs fine with the ASIAIR.

Hope to hear from you.

Stephan

Tech@ZWO

Sonixx Turn on this option in mount settings - Meridian Flip to try.

Sonixx

Dear @Tech@ZWO,

Thank you very much looking at my problem. I tried using this function. I described it in my first post. This post is unfortunately a bit long but I tried to put all the information in there.

Maybe this switch does not work when the mount slews reverse from east to west side of the meridian?

Best Regards,

Stephan