Hmmm. I've never used a skywatcher mount. Look for something like "meridian limit."

You can do all the testing during the day when you can see what's happening.

Try to slew to different sides of the meridian and see what happens. If you are looking east and you try to slew to a location just west of the meridian, what happens? If you slew to a point *just barely* west of the meridian when you're looking east, does the mount just nudge a few degrees, or does it flip around to come to that point from the west side?

Maybe you don't need to define any kind of meridian limit for your mount? Try just setting Ekos to flip at HA = +1 degree (see screenshot below).

Then (again during daytime is fine for testing) slew to a point just east of the meridian and track. Watch the hour angle in Ekos get closer and closer to zero and then creep into the positive. What happens when you reach the HA = +1 degree?  Ekos should send a slew at that point and the mount should flip.
Hmmm. I've never used a skywatcher mount. Look for something like "meridian limit."

You can do all the testing during the day when you can see what's happening.

Try to slew to different sides of the meridian and see what happens. If you are looking east and you try to slew to a location just west of the meridian, what happens? If you slew to a point *just barely* west of the meridian when you're looking east, does the mount just nudge a few degrees, or does it flip around to come to that point from the west side?

Maybe you don't need to define any kind of meridian limit for your mount? Try just setting Ekos to flip at HA = +1 degree (see screenshot below).

Then (again during daytime is fine for testing) slew to a point just east of the meridian and track. Watch the hour angle in Ekos get closer and closer to zero and then creep into the positive. What happens when you reach the HA = +1 degree?  Ekos should send a slew at that point and the mount should flip.

  


 

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