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Old 12-08-2013, 11:12 PM
Star Hunter
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Mount won't connect to PHD

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Originally Posted by LewisM View Post
Correct. The cross doesn't move after you select the star and hit PHD. The square box moves. The whole idea of the cross is to show the initial start position of the star.
Phew!... I'm glad you said that mate. I too, was thinking the same.

What my dilemma is trying to get PHD to connect to the mount and in my case, it's a new Losmandy Titan 50.

PHD says its connected to mount but when I try to emulate the RA/Dec buttons in PHD, I don't see any movement of the g/star in PHD even at its shortest exp. nor hear a thing in the motors.

So does one have to actually connect a mount to same PC/laptop so PHD can 'handshake' with the mount? I thought all this was done through the autoguider cable between guider camera and the mount's guider port.

I have tried PHD versions from 1.7.0 to 1.14.0 and still can't get any sense out of PHD not connecting to the mount. I'm currently using 1.12.0 but can upgrade back to 1.14 if need be.

cheers,

JaBar
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