I’m having the same issue with my Nexstar GPS 8, (poor old thing is nearly twenty years old), also would allow me to manually change the year etc, stays on 2018?
@MatthewHKnight
6 жыл бұрын
Well this video is a year old but LST stands for local sidereal time. I haven't had this problem with mine but you do need to allow time for the GPS to sync with a near by Satellite if you've stuff that is blocking the GPS signal it won't be able to sync with the satellite I'm pretty sure you need to wait until the GPS sync's with a satellite if you don't allow to and just hit the OK button the GPS won't be able to grab the correct information and stuff might get left out leading to what you saw about the date being wrong GPS wasn't able to get the right information only was able to maybe grab the right time
@ChucksAstrophotography
6 жыл бұрын
I tried everything. Even sold it to a friend who lives 20 minutes away - he gave it back because he couldn't get it to work either. Celestron sent me a second unit and it had the same issue. I still consider it a piece of junk.
@MatthewHKnight
6 жыл бұрын
Chuck's Astrophotography I took one a part all it is is a GPS it has a receiver and that's it. I ended getting a Celestron starsense today but can't use the GPS with my 5se because the mount only has one aux port and I'll have buy a aux adapter that has an extra port outside right waiting to try and use it between the clouds and now a full Moon up this is gonna interesting.. Waiting and hoping the clouds will clear then I'll just have deal with a full Moon and see if the starsense will be able to find any alignment stars since the Moon is in the east sky
@ChucksAstrophotography
6 жыл бұрын
Have you considered Plate Solving as opposed to Starsence?
@MatthewHKnight
6 жыл бұрын
Chuck's Astrophotography the honest answer is I'm just really bad at getting the alignment right and personally I wanted to Barrow one from a club member but they're old school and really don't have a need for it because they've been doing it for many years so it comes natural to them. I spend too much of my time trying to get the alignment good but seems I still end up not centered in the eyepiece. Some nights I just wanna get out and use the telescope and spend a lot of time getting things to right hoping maybe if I get good alignment when I go do the polar alignment I won't have the problem I appeared to be having I was told you don't need to use the knob at the back of the avx mount you only need to adjust the azimuth knobs I've been doing both the azimuth and the elevation knob when doing the polar alignment because the star for me if I don't use the elevation knob and the azimuth knobs I can't center the polar star I did hear that I should set the mount back into home position and then power off the telescope and do the alignment over
@johns.107
4 жыл бұрын
Returning my second unit. Had enough with this thing. Won’t acquire any satellites after waiting over an hour each occasion. Confirmed with two other GPS units. Used in my CGEM II. My initial experience with Celesteon accessories has been awful. The mount has been the only thing that’s well made thus far.
@ivanaguilar2827
8 жыл бұрын
I bought a second unit and this one work perfect , 2 seconds give me time , date and location even inside of my apt
@ChucksAstrophotography
8 жыл бұрын
I think I might have a bad battery. I'm not using the standard Celestron battery.
@ivanaguilar2827
8 жыл бұрын
I try with regular batteries and celestron power tank and work
@murph072278
8 жыл бұрын
Does this happen when you use it outside? I have often used GPS watches for running and they never work inside.
@ChucksAstrophotography
8 жыл бұрын
Yes, it happens when I use it outside.
@amandanunya3513
7 жыл бұрын
I also encountered this issue, mine worked for almost two years, then an update in the CFM firmware broke it. This was over a year ago, I raised the issue with the TeamCelestron folks responsible for doing beta testing, but switched to an Astro Physics system before getting an acceptable fix for this issue. Not sure if this has been corrected yet or not. Try updating the handset's firmware, they may have fixed it by now.
@ChucksAstrophotography
7 жыл бұрын
I've switched to a new mount, the CGX. After I make sure the mount is working correctly, I'll go back and see if the GPS unit works with it.
@zachwilliams2804
8 жыл бұрын
Did you end up returning your SkySync? I just bought the Advanced VX and the SkySync and mine isn't even updating the time. Ridiculous.
@ChucksAstrophotography
8 жыл бұрын
I sent it back, and they sent me a brand new one and I still had the exact same problem. Maybe it's the battery I'm using for my mount. I could be underpowered - just guessing. It was too late to ask for a full refund.
@zachwilliams2804
8 жыл бұрын
+Chuck's Astrophotography I am leaning toward that not being the problem I have the power tank and it still doesn't work. I'll do some dating and let you know if I find anything out.
@ChucksAstrophotography
8 жыл бұрын
Oh ok, so it's not the power tank, I'll scratch that one off my list. I stopped messing with it; I've already spent more time trying to figure out than the time it will ever save me in the future. It's just collecting dust in my basement now.
@zachwilliams2804
8 жыл бұрын
+Chuck's Astrophotography well it's definitely not a firmware update. Just ran both updates and its 1 hr 40 min off and two days in the future and saying gps linked. Impressive.
@ChucksAstrophotography
8 жыл бұрын
Wow, I'm glad you're working on this. I hope you figure it out, it would be nice to use.
@freddyacosta2358
3 жыл бұрын
GPS has problems when using that control
@ivanaguilar2827
8 жыл бұрын
I got the same problem this piece of shit gps don't work
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