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[engreric]

Hi everyone,
I'm wondering if anyone has any experience with this, I also posted this under EQMOD and SatTracker group for looking for help. I have a lot of stuff going on with my setup and I'm actually quite surprised I made it this far =), so bear with me. I'll try to keep the problem short and sweet.

I'm having tracking issues with my motorized CG4 mount. I'm using Satellite Tracker with EQMOD, EQMODLX and AstroEQ as the motor driver.

The problem I'm having is that after intercepting, which seems to work fine (CDC and SatTrack agree on the location). Once it gets into continuous tracking mode things start to get a little wierd. My mount just starts hovering over the intercept point, it never actually follows the satellite across the sky.

I have the latest version of all software packages, and I know that eqmod and astroeq are working well with eachother as I have no problem chasing after normal sky objects. My mount should also be fast enough as I designed the setup using rather large stepper motors and am capable of using eqmod with the max sidereal rate.

Any ideas?
Thanks!
Eric

[engreric]

I think I figured it out. It looks like a bug in the newer 2.6.1 beta version. I reverted back to the 2.4.9 version and everything seemed to work just fine in testing... haven't caught an actual sat yet though. Now I just have to make my scope 10x faster so that I can more easily intercept those fast little leo sats =)