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[VMan]

I've been using an AA+ and mini for over a year now and have always found polar alignment a breeze. Worst case takes 5 minutes, usually under 3. But just now spent an hour going mildly insane trying to get it to work. And this was with the mount still set up from last night so would have only needed a minor tweak at most.

 

The behavior was over a full degree out in RA start turning knob in right direction, noticeable shift in mount, but app records almost no change in RA but a big change in DEC, start adjusting DEC and get similar phenomenon: little change in DEC big change in RA. Checked for updates, restarted, checked power, restarted again... then I checked my coordinates and somehow they were completely off. Input the right ones, synced to mount, and was up in running in a couple minutes.

 

It's rather curious. But somehow my location got reset...

[downUnder]

was that with All Sky PA?

I've seen several reports to ZWO that ASPA gives similarly erratic feedback when trying to manually adjust RA and DEC; and that is my experience with it too 

I wonder if the problems are related.

[AstroFromHome]

Such also happens with normal PA in AsiAir. About one year ago it always erased my location putting me into mainland China. The it is not possible to get well polar aligned within Europa.

[DrGoon]

Your ASIair client needs to provide time and location to the ASIair controller. If your location services are non-permissive or just wonky due to a slow startup of services or network timeout, you'll be in China. You also have to use caution if you use multiple devices (I use both an iPad a MacBook to run the ASIair client) that they are both clocked to the same time server and updating correctly. There's no "you appear to have moved, would you like me to save the new location" dialog - it just silently assumes location is correct and that null values represent the factory. I wouldn't expect that to be high (ever) on their fix list, although it's been submitted for feature improvement before.

[VMan]

was that with All Sky PA?

I've seen several reports to ZWO that ASPA gives similarly erratic feedback when trying to manually adjust RA and DEC; and that is my experience with it too 

I wonder if the problems are related.

I was using polaris mode, it was just an unexpected reset of my location