ASIAIR V3.0 Public Beta Released！: Page 12

ASIAIR V3.0 Public Beta Released！

heyjp

@PMTeam@ZWO

Just downloaded v3 build 21. Anxious to test with my 9.25” EdgeHD scope remotely located in Texas at Starfront!

I was hoping that when you setup multiple locations you could add the timezone along with the remote lat/long. But don’t see it?? In V2 I always had to set my iPhone/iPad timezone to Texas (I live in Colorado) to make sure my ASIAIR didn’t switch back to Colorado time. Which it often does even if I stop access to location services.

Am I missing something or is remote timezone coming in later version?

Jim in Boulder

heyjp

Luxo

Totally agree if you have to control all aspects of the remote dome.

I have my ASIAIR running my 9.25’ EdgeHD remotely at Starfront in Nowhere Texas. (Along with about 100 other scopes with ASIAIRs). (out of 600 scopes total.) Starfront controls roof opening and reaction to changing conditions. The two features I miss that NINA users have is ability to remember the remote time zone (an annoyance) and auto shutdown from the observatory signal that roof has been closed. (Not a big problem, I just get a mosaic of of images of the bottom of the roof!)

Jim in Boulder

R0k9pZfT

elakrab
It would be nice to see an option to do a flip manually and the ability to set it to flip X minutes early. I don't like going to something near zenith and having to wait 5-10 minutes longer so it will flip.

Luxo

R0k9pZfT

If it flips early it will simply have to wait just as long on the other side for the object to cross the meridian.

Another issue is asymmetric mounts like the Losmandy G11 which have an RA drive that sticks out like a sore thumb on one side, but not the other. One of the reasons I got rid of a G11 (though that wasn't the showstopper).

R0k9pZfT

I was thinking if you have a setup that lets you goto past meridian, then flip early and goto the target on the other side.

Luxo

R0k9pZfT
There has been a setting for ages (back to version 2.0 at least) to flip before the meridian. The ZWO implementation is however buggy - non-zero values tend to lead to crashing the scope into the pier/tripod. Great way to break something expensive.

So no-one uses anything other than 0, for which the meridian flip works reliably.

The implicit assumption is that your scope and mount are symmetrical east/west, and can reach the meridian on both sides, ie no gnarly ugly bits that stick out on one side and not the other. This is not always true.

azskyguy

Luxo Are you saying flip right at the meridian, not early or late, setting flip times to zero? Never tried that.

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