Meridian Flip Tutorial Video for Voyager Released

[RowlandA]

Hi folks,

I just finished and uploaded a new tutorial for managing meridian flips with Voyager.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woW1oNSlKnA

This is one of those topics that could be covered in a minute - the defaults are usually fine - but mismanaged meridian flips are one of the few things that can actually damage your hardware, so I went into the details.

I think after three years of working with various imaging packages, the concepts behind automated meridian flips are finally gelling in my mind.  

While working on this it occurred to me that there's no need to wait until night time to learn new software.  Thanks to ASCOM simulators you can do most things during the day, which for me at least is far superior than spending valuable clear sky time trying to tweak my configuration.  Not to mention that my brain power starts trailing off exponentially as the night wears on 🙂 !

Hope the video helps someone, and if you watch it, let me know if it's not clear.

Cheers,

Rowland

 

[AngryDonkey]

Thanks Rowland that was really useful!

[old_eyes]

Very useful. I have been thinking about Voyager for my new observatory. Never had a need for that level of automation before, but interested to try. I like the approach of Voyager and your videos have helped me understand it. Thanks

[JayStar]

Just seen this - trying to work out the settings.  This is helpful.

At the moment the 'Force Disconnect...' setting just seems to constantly stop tracking and then the meridian flip will never happen, just keeps flashing orange.

Tracking is not turned back on when I am ready to take an image, have to turn it on manually in TheSkyX, but then before I can start my image sequence it will turn tracking off again. I know it's simply a matter of figuring it out though

 

Edited December 20, 2020 by JayStar