Forgive me if the following has already been asked and answered and sounds a bit novice.
A few of my favourite targets are the Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635), The Wizard Nebula (NGC 7380), Fish Head Nebula (IC 1795), Heart Nebula (IC 1805) and the Soul Nebula (IC 1848). From my location, all these targets are visible all the time as they are all rotate around the NP (North side of the Zenith).
The ONLY problem I am facing with SGPro is that I must stay awake till the Hour Angle (HA) of the object passes 12h00m00 so I can do a manual pier flip. SGPro always shows the “Time to Pier Flip:” as NA when the HA of the object is between 0h00m00 and 12h00m00. When pointing anywhere South of the Zenith the Flip works perfectly.
Hopefully I am just missing a trick here but is there any way to get SGPro to do an automated pier flip when imaging targets, North side of the Zenith, around the NP after that target passes the HA of 12h00m00.
I have setup EQMOD SideOfPier as “Pointing (ASCOM)” and have tried “Physical”, “None(ASCOM)” and “V1.24g”. Only “Physical” shows a time to Pier Flip in SGPro but as a negative value when HA is before 12h00m00 and fails to even start the sequence in this case. I do not use a pointing model and my mount is the AZ-EQ6 GT.
If this is not possible then so be it and I’ll just live with this one and only issue I have with SGPro. Everything else works a charm and is by far the best product out there.
Thanks, in advance.
Mark