Has anyone else had EKOS just start doing meridian flips for no reason? I was imaging along with no major issues when suddenly it decided to do a meridian flip- almost two hours from the meridian. The mount swung around but of course had to go back the other way again since it really couldn’t reach the target yet. This happened about every ten minutes of tracking and each time it tried to find a guide star, the whole imaging session ended because the auto star bug failed to find a guide star ( see my previous post on that). I quite KStars and tried imaging again. Same thing happened again! After three inappropriate flips I got so frustrated that I called it a night and gave up.
Each time the mount was tracking correctly, synced to the target, and KStars showed the correct location. The date and time was correct.
This has never happened before. EKOS is now so unreliable that I am ready to give it up entirely. It used to have a minor bug here and there, but now it is completely unusable for me. And I have not changed any of my equipment or operating system in two years.
Is there anyone who has a reliable, working system?
Meridian flips are now expressed in hours not degrees. If you were not aware of that change it would be easy to accidentally specify 2 hours instead of 2 degrees.
I've had issues similar to yours in the past, and in my case it's always been the mount. That is, the mount no longer had its home position correct for one reason or another (so what it thought was straight up, wasn't really straight up). To solve that, I follow Jasem's suggestions in this link: stellarmate.com/support/faq/mounts.html?view=faq&faqid=33