Hello old_eyes,
It was confusing to me. Since you can be on either side or the pier while pointing to the zenith. The way I do it there’s only one way to point it and it happens to be my prefered park position.
Hope you solve it soon,
Jose
Hello old_eyes,
It was confusing to me. Since you can be on either side or the pier while pointing to the zenith. The way I do it there’s only one way to point it and it happens to be my prefered park position.
Hope you solve it soon,
Jose
I just add some info to understand about meridian. Voyager if read pierwest understand mount haven’t done meridian flip and/or is before meridian if the HA is negative, if read pierEast understand mount have done meridian flip or is after the meridian if HA is positive. If, for example, you are before meridian and mount report East and if you are using ASCOM xxx mode to manage meridian this mean to invert the ASCOM xxx mode for interpreting meridian correctly in Voyager.
IN the old_yes case mount was in pierwest and crossed meridian since 3 minutes 39 seconds, so a meridian flip is needed. All information for mount and Voyager setting is right. After the slew for doing the meridian flip mount return immediatly from the slew. This means no meridian flip and the driver continue to report pierwest instead of pierEast. This is equal to: driver decide to not do meridian flip … some of your driver parameters prevent to do meridian flip or delay the meridian flip paste the meridian cross for x time or grade. Another possible cause is Voyager LST is different from LST in mount (in this case just check the flag read LST from driver in voyager -> mount setup) usually this happen when mount timing / zone is really different from the driver/PC. To check if LST is different just read LST in the column status of voyager, box information and compare with the LST from your driver application window.
All the best
Leonardo
Jose,
I switched to your method to avoid any problems with which side the scope was looking, and verified using Leonardo’s suggestion. Worked fine and I will stick with that.
As I replied to you on the SiTech forum, your method for controlling the meridian flip worked fine. I need to execute the flip in between the mount passing the meridian limit and before it hits the meridian overlap limit and stops.
I had a couple of false starts because I was miscalculating the match between time past meridian and degrees past meridian, but SkyView sorted it out for me because I could see the limits marked on the chart. Should have looked at that earlier ![]()
I reduced the meridian limit and increased the meridian overlap and everything was fine.
So I now have meridian flips working, but no clear skies!
Thanks for your help
old_eyes
Thanks for the clarification Leonardo. Very useful.
As I replied to Jose, I have sorted the meridian flip out. It was my misunderstanding of how the SiTech controller works and so how it would interact with Voyager. Jose told me waht to do, but I still managed to get things confused! Anyway, I now have a better mental picture of how things work, and am ready to to start some serious imaging once the skies clear.
Thanks for your support
old_eyes
Happy to hear that you are up and running with Voyager and the Mesu!! Now, for clear skies, i feel your pain. It seems that here in Sweden the clouds have taken over the sky forever 
Have a nice weekend and clear skies,
Jose