I am trying to figure out how to have my Celestron CGX-L move to a parked position and stop tracking. Did not have this problem with EQmod but now with the Celestron it’s another story.
I have it now to where it will move to a ‘park’ or “home” position but after that it just keeps on tracking, I know that you can also stop tracking but that just stops where the mount is currently pointed. But evidently you cant do both.
The other morning I came out and found it against the hard stops in RA and pointing straight up collecting dust and dew.
Right… we made these things mutually exclusive (park / stop tracking). I have never heard of a park that continues tracking. Doesn’t this defeat the purpose of park?
OK, well, I think, for clarity, we will leave these two options mutually exclusive, but it is probably OK for SGPro to issue a stop tracking after the park command… almost all mounts will fail here (silently), but it shouldn’t hurt anything.
Someone came up with a good idea to have the park commanded on the last target, then a stop tacking for end of sequence, which would probably work, except for an aborted sequence, which I have fairly often.
Yep… not super-intuitive (in terms of setup), but that should work fine. I just added the code I talked about so next beta you should not have to do odd things like that. If somebody has a reason why a park command should keep the mount tracking, let us know and we will consider allowing park and stop tracking to work together.