Oh, woe is me.
My life is a misery.
Oh, can’t you see
That I’m at the start of a pretty big downer?
This is just a self-pitying whinge, please ignore if you wish.
I am still having immense difficulties starting an imaging session with the Seestar, having just spent over an hour trying to get it set up. Part of the problem was that it took four attempts to install the latest firmware upgrade. I have no idea what I did differently this time, other than changing the firmware, for the occasion when I had a mostly successful session.
One problem, though, appears to be that the SS starts by looking at the zenith (I may be wrong) and if there is cloud around that point it fails to initialize its calibration (again I may be wrong). Although that may be an issue, waiting until the zenith is clear didn’t seem to ghelp much. Even after performing an explicit polar alignment, telling it to point to a specific object, and the telescope occasionally appears seems to be pointing in that general cloudless direction, it fails to show anything, let alone auto-focus or stack incoming images.
Perhaps I need to find a reasonably local to Cambridge and clueful SS owner whom can give me a tutorial as to how to get the damn thing working within a few minutes of taking it outside and applying power.