PMTeam@ZWO Tonight I set my mount up (AM3) for all sky PA. First I let it sit there for about 15 minutes periodically refreshing. The Dec didn't waver at all. The RA changed a total of about 20" during this 15 minutes. Then I aligned until it was happy with a total error of 2'03". Told the mount to go home, then restarted PA and it said my alignment was still where I left it (actually now at 2'05")! Yay so far. But now since it's happy with the number, when I refreshed on the PA page the numbers started fluctuating a lot. Tracking was on. Why would they fluctuate after the alignment process is complete? Something the PA logic isn't expecting to see? Once the alignment accuracy reached about 1'20" by doing nothing here, I told the mount to go home and shut it off. Then I turned it back on and went to a completely different part of the sky. This time the all sky PA reported that it was good already--but at the now lower number of about 1'20"? I didn't move it after the original 2'03" but just refreshed until the number got lower. How can the alignment improve that much by me just refreshing the screen? During the alignment process it was all making sense and worked great. After a good alignment, then things went wonky. I do not have it set to restore previous session settings.
Granted, I've never done this before and always just start my night after aligning and don't have any issues. This was just an experiment. Also, I don't have the UTC offset issue on the AM3 running 1.7.3.
