Additional Tracking rates

foc

The ASI Mount currently tracks at Solar, Lunar or Sideral. Even cheap Star trackers provide more rates than that. Some applications like scanning the sun for spectroscopic lines (Spectroheliographs) require faster tracking rates such as 8x or 12x. Could ZWO provide this option for their AM5 in their SkyAtlas software so these applications be performed using their AM5 and handcontroller?

ASIMount-ZWO

Hi, ASIStudio and SKyatlas currently support setting different slew rates. If higher tracking speeds are required, they can only be achieved through manual operation. I would like to know if this meets your needs, or if you specifically require an auto-tracking feature?

foc

Thanks for your reply.

It would be very convenient if I could set a tracking rate of say 8, 10, 12 x sideral rate in RA for scanning a heliograph spectra of the sun.

Such a rate can be achieved by not using the ASI mount software and instead using say Stellarium for the planetarium software combined with Sharpcap and EQMOD but it would be so much more convenient if the ASI mount Panetarium and drive rate software could be used directly. That is find things via its planetarium and scan in RA using dialable multiple's of sideral rate