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6 minutes ago, carastro said:

Does sound like the thinks you are in the wrong part of the world, i.e. Southern hemisphere.  Hope it's not tracking in reverse because of that, though I would have thought it would know from your target you were in the Northern hemisphere, but just to be absolutely certain, when you enter the date and time etc, there is also a place to enter your co-ordinates, make sure you have them in correctly and + for Northern hemisphere. 

If I put my ear up to the mount I can hear a faint ticking when the mount is tracking.  But you shouldn;t have to tell it to track.  The other thing might be worth checking, is whether you are set on Solar or lunar tracking rather than sidereal, it should be somewhere in the handset.  Can;t quite remember where it is as that could cause weird tracking.

Also if you are not guiding then you will get some trailing anyway though sounds like yours was more than to be expected.

Carole   

  

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?

1 hour ago, AstroMuni said:

Check that it has your location coords correctly. Also it can sometimes think you are in Southern hemisphere and move your scope incorrectly. There is a park option in Synscan. When you execute that check where it puts the scope - that is where it thinks the Home position is. You can move your scope manually to the correct position after your have parked the scope to adjust.

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.