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Finding Lost Telescope Position

So you lost your telescope… It happens to the best of us. Below is a procedure to require celestial position in the event (due to power lose or Sarah Lemmon shenanigan's) the telescope has completely lost its position.

Refind Home

Turn Off the Controller

I know. It sounds weird but hear me out. The telescope doesn't know where it is and the drivers are engaged. You could use the hand controller to move it into position in the next step but that runs the risk of the Controller thinking you are going into a soft limit and thus not letting you get truly into position.

So just do what I tell you. Turn the Controller off via the big red switch. When you do this Maestro, on the desktop, will be unhappy. That's ok. It will automatically reconnect once the Controller is turned back on.

Point to Park

Turn On the Controller

Align from Last

Calibrate to Alt/AZ

Align from Home Seek

Calibrate on Bright Star

Troubleshooting

If the above procedure does NOT fix your issue there is something else going on. Check the RA tape for bugs, make sure the telescope is well balanced, note any errors in Maestro. If you can't find a solution contact Travis.

public/catalinas/lemmon/schulman_32/finding_lost_telescope_position.1663738890.txt.gz · Last modified: 2022/09/20 22:41 by tdeyoe