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[Rosssiiii]

I tried the SynScan Pro app by connecting my phone to the mount and I encountered these problems:
1) when I click on polar alignment the app suddenly closes by itself: https://i.imgur.com/MpauUtm.png
the app is updated and my phone is a motorola g54 5g with 12gb of ram...it shouldn't be the phone that's the problem, but who knows why that app function just doesn't want to work?
2) as soon as I connect the app to the mount, when I'm in this screen: https://i.imgur.com/ZSojaGS.png and I try to click on the arrows at the bottom of the screen, should the mount move? It doesn't move at all and I don't understand why...
3) for example when I choose an object in the sky to point at and click on point the mount starts to point at it...but I don't understand if in addition to pointing at it it also follows it? https://i.imgur.com/qv2l1GK.png
otherwise how can I start the tracking after it has pointed it?
4) here among these options to do astrophotography I have to choose the sidereal mode right? Lunar is for the moon and maybe other planets and for the sun? then I don't understand why it doesn't let me choose point and track... it's not even selectable when the mount is connected to the phone:
https://i.imgur.com/cAXeanG.png
5) another thing I don't understand is why the autohome doesn't work? among the various videos seen on youtube I have certainly seen the one in which at a certain point they click on auto home and the mount returns to the initial position in which everything is pointed north.
https://i.imgur.com/yrq9tcC.png
6 ) a question that does not concern the app, but if I ask the mount to position itself on a star...i see that the mount starts to point it, but does it even if I forgot to tighten the RA and DEC clutches? It seemed so to me, because it is happened to me even if at that moment I had not mounted anything on the mount because i was just testing, it should not damage it I hope ?

 

sorry for the many questions but are the points that i don't understand at first use

[mfratto]

Q1: Consumer astronomy software generally sucks.

 

Q2: Yes, if you are connected the mount should move. See the number 2 in the middle? That's a movement speed indicator. 1 is slow, 9 is fast. See the two arrows pointing left and right just outside the 8-way pad? Right will increase mount speed, left reduces. Mash that right arrow until you see 9 in the center. The mount should move. I find 5 is a good speed when looking through the eye piece.

 

Q3: It's tracking Sideral time. See in the upper right corner the two arrows and a star. That's an indicator of what it is tracking, Sidereal, Sun, Moon, point. BTW, I have only used my for solar but I fouind point and track better than solar. Maybe the same for tracking stars too. If Sidereal tracking is off, try point and track.

 

Q4: You choose point and track from the page that has the object you are looking for. Not the tracking type page you are on.

 

I got nothing for Q5 and Q6.

[Rosssiiii]

Q1: Consumer astronomy software generally sucks.

 

Q2: Yes, if you are connected the mount should move. See the number 2 in the middle? That's a movement speed indicator. 1 is slow, 9 is fast. See the two arrows pointing left and right just outside the 8-way pad? Right will increase mount speed, left reduces. Mash that right arrow until you see 9 in the center. The mount should move. I find 5 is a good speed when looking through the eye piece.

 

Q3: It's tracking Sideral time. See in the upper right corner the two arrows and a star. That's an indicator of what it is tracking, Sidereal, Sun, Moon, point. BTW, I have only used my for solar but I fouind point and track better than solar. Maybe the same for tracking stars too. If Sidereal tracking is off, try point and track.

 

Q4: You choose point and track from the page that has the object you are looking for. Not the tracking type page you are on.

 

I got nothing for Q5 and Q6.

Hello

thanks for answering 

 

1 ) i have solved the first point where there was the crash in the polar alignment: https://i.imgur.com/MpauUtm.png

that was happening because i was using the italian version of the app, i changed in english and work fine, and say that to do the polar alignment you have to do before the stars allignment:

https://i.imgur.com/MNg1zE6.png

 

so from the polar alignment on the app it should tell me the correction to do for a correct polar alignment ? that i think would never be so precise as using a software where there is a star solving function as phd2 or Nina

 

2) yes solved thanks.

 

3) oh understand, i will use sideral most of the time, but i don't see the option for the sun on syscan app pro, is maybe not available for the star adventure GTI ?

 

4) after that you point and it will start to track it, here say where i have circled "centrate manualmente" that in italian mean "center manually"  https://i.imgur.com/XDlUZaD.png mean that i have to move slowly the RA and DEC axes of the mount using these arrows ?

https://i.imgur.com/ACZAruW.png

 

Another question, when i want to turn off the mount, even if it is chasing, can i loosen the clutches and bring it manually to the home?

because i saw that the function where it brings it manually to the home is present inside the hibernate function