Fixed "Look at..." seems to be not working?

[Maury Markowitz]

I used the assistant to "move to Toronto", "set the time to tonight" (which selected 8 pm which is fine) and then "look at Polaris".

The first two worked fine, but the last resulted in me looking at nadir, where there was a yellow disk. That did not look like where the sun would be at 8 PM (!!!), so I asked it to "look at the sun" and nothing changed.

 

[jarlrmai]

I've had similar issues asking Sitrec Assistant to look at RA, Dec from Astrometry provided data to position for stars, helpful when a case has a full star field visible.

It seems to know what is being asked but never seems to actually point at the right place..

 

[Mick West]

Fixed! Looking at anything: planets, stars, ra/dec, should now work correctly

There was a rather fundamental issue to do with the inconsistent calculation of az/el for headings (cameras have negative heading, and this was not being correctly accounted for, leading to errors when patches to one heading calculation broke another)

 

[GM4AJK]

When I was adding the elevation angle to the compass, I was mildly confused but assumed all would be revealed as I dug into the code more

 

[jarlrmai]

This seems broken again.. I get an RA, Dec from Astrometry and ask Sitrec to point at it and it points wrong

 

[Mick West]

This seems broken again.. I get an RA, Dec from Astrometry and ask Sitrec to point at it and it points wrong

Can you give a bit more detail? Where was the camera set to? What was the time? What RA, DEC values did you use? What star (roughly should it have been pointing to?