Dirk Tetzlaff replied to the topic 'Alt-Az mode for EQmod' in the forum. 3 years ago

@Jean-Luc: I got the driver working with my AZ-EQ6, meanwhile. The problem was that my MC board (the one with the built-in USB) has a different mount code. It responds "0x22". Once I changed this in your code, It connected and I can now control my mount with the skywatcher_AltAZ driver. Unfortunately, no live testing yet due to weather restrictions.
I did also "switch on" the guiding by un-commenting the respective lines in the skywatcherAPIMount.cpp. Quite excited to see how well this works. My plan is to have my guide scope set exactly parallel to my primary scope. I will than choose a guiding star as close as possible to the middle of the field. The center of field rotation should than be the guiding star. But I guess astrophotography in AltAz makes only sense at or near the celestial equator or with very large fov (to have low arcsec resolution per pixel). I will test it with my C11&Hyperstar, though. Probably this combination works ok, with reasonable short exposures.
Primarily I wanted to have the AltAz option for visual observation and planetary photography. I am very much looking forward to test this out. Thank you very much for your support !

P.S.: is there any backlash programmed when slewing ? my mount always backtracks a bit after slew commands. Could not see any options, though.

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