woldsweather

I had a friend with me last night who has 60+ years experience of Astrophotography (though not Synscan app). He said he couldn't hear it tracking. He looked around in synscan and we tried again and got no trailing (well in the centre any way all around the edges is another problem re back focus we are trying to get sorted). It is set on sidereal - thats right isn't it?

This is the android app. I have always assumed it gets the location via the phones GPS? I can't find the park option in the android app.

I've been using Synscan 6 months and that's total experience at astrophotography. I used Polemaster to Polar align last night. I then connected my android phone to synscan and began 2* alignmment. The scope swung round and pointed into the ground. Now this has been a common feature. Is there somewhere I should be telling asynscan the mount is the home position? If I slacken the clutches and line up on the first star then use synscan to 'goto' the next star then that star is slewed to perfectly. After that I sent to M86 and took a picture at 30 seconds - huge star trails. The mount couldn't have been tracking. Whereabouts do I set the mount tracking?

New to all this . EQM-35 PRO mount. I start at home position for my Polar alignment but I have never seen anywhere in synscan where you either tell it your are starting from the home positipon or telling it to park at the home position. Is there somewhere in synscan (using the android app) to do this?

Using Synscan EQM-35 mount Altair EDF72 and GPCAM2 for SharpCap to PA. I am struggling to find 2 stars I know when I align. There's always one in the first list but never in the second. Is there a way of looking up here on my desktop in the warm house what the list of stars will be - say - tonight at 6pm. I could then learn them on Stellarium before I head out. I know there are phone apps and I have tried 4/5 but they never show what5 I am pointing at.

I have just had my first attempt to use PHD tonight and I get this same error. I amusing an Altair GPCAM130 and it works fine with sharpcap.

When I first gort the EQM-35 PRO mount I got a wifi adapter for the mount so never used the handset. When I realised I then lost internet connection on my phone I then successfully connected the sysnscan to my router. In recent weeks my phone stopped connecting to the mount via synscan so I went back to connecting directky to the mount in the phones wifi settings. Yesterday I tried to connect the router to an outdoor access point I have put up. Not only wasn't I successful but now the synscan wifi isn't showing in my phones wifi settings. How do I get it back?

I'm glad its not just me who cant focus this guidescope. I spent 5 hours 2 nights ago trying to focus and find stars in Sharpcap. I'm on the verge of selling it and trying to find a guidescope WITH a focusser.