CPWI Question about Latitude

[lsintampa]

Maybe a stupid question, not sure.

Does CPWI read the mount's setting for latitude?

I'm setting up N.I.N.A.. and one of the things it does is read the mounts latitude and compare it to what it (NINA thinks it should be based on settings it gets from Stellarium.

So, I'm wondering how NADI knows what the mount latitude setting is, unless it's able to read it?

Anyway, NINA seems awesome, but it is challenging for sure.

Mount in question is the AVX.

[JayTee]

What is N.A.D.I.?

JT

[lsintampa]

What is N.A.D.I.?

JT

Oops that is NINA.. post corrected

[JayTee]

I had a feeling that's what you meant, but I had to be sure. It's interesting that I have CPWI and N.I.N.A. and an AVX Mount and I've never used them all together. So, unfortunately I can't give you much advice.

JT

[lsintampa]

I had a feeling that's what you meant, but I had to be sure. It's interesting that I have CPWI and N.I.N.A. and an AVX Mount and I've never used them all together. So, unfortunately I can't give you much advice.

JT

I haven't as well. But I have been playing with NINA inside trying to get a feel for it. You need to have most of the other applications started before you start NINA. Like CPWI and Stellarium.

Somewhere NINA asks if you want to get coordinated from Stellarium. Since Stellarium gets coordinates from your physical location, I told NINA to use Stellarium for long/lat.

When you then connect your mount, NINA will tell you what AVX coordinate is and ask which set of coordinates you want to use.

I know NINA can't adjust lat on the mount, but I do wonder if it can read it????

Am I making any sense?

[JayTee]

How are you connecting everything together? Are you using the ASCOM drivers? If so, then ASCOM allows everything to talk with everything BUT no image acquisition program or planetarium program should be changing the coords you manually put into your mount. That would be un-cool!

Don't confuse your planetarium program "syncing" itself to where your mount is actually pointing, this is changing the sky coords NOT your Earth-based coords.

JT

[lsintampa]

How are you connecting everything together? Are you using the ASCOM drivers? If so, then ASCOM allows everything to talk with everything BUT no image acquisition program or planetarium program should be changing the coords you manually put into your mount. That would be un-cool!

Don't confuse your planetarium program "syncing" itself to where your mount is actually pointing, this is changing the sky coords NOT your Earth-based coords.

JT

I guess my question is where is NINA getting the information about the mount's coordinates?????

[lsintampa]

so - DUH - this was a dumb question - NINI gets mount coordinates from CPWI - which is user set

sorry for the stupid question