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Bintel sell the Shoestring EQDIR Adapter from Stark Labs. It’s a pretty simple serial converter. Mine is coupled to a stock standard cheap USB to serial cable running on Windows 10 with a Windows 7 Prolific driver. ASCOM software is free and so is Astrotortilla Platesolving software. If you got your mount and your camera on the laptop, then you really should consider platesolving. I used to spent hours polar aligning, 3 point star sync with stars that sometimes were behind the house just to find that my target wasn’t actually in the frame (then came the push around and hope for the best for another hour). Now I’m imaging wishing within 10 min. From the rig being assembled. Thanks to platesolving. Truth being told, I got a polemaster, which makes Pole alignment so super easy.
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