I also put together some info earlier this year during the first COVID lockdown. It's a page on
connection to SkyWatcher mounts with some pictures to help visualise the setup.
I suggest keeping the handset but just put it away for the time when you perhaps are doing outreach and just want to run the mount with a simple setup to show local school kids the moon, or if you add a solar telescope and you just want to track the sun and it's too bright and hot to have a computer outside in the sun.
If you are imaging and you use platesolving, particularly if you just image one or two objects in a night, you don't need an accurate pointing model as you can rely on platesolving to accurately point your telescope to the exact spot in the sky.
If so, you also have a few computer application options on replacing the handset - i.e. EQMOD, Green Swamp Server (GSS) & Sky-Watcher (GSS is more modern but doesn't yet have a pointing model).
See
Sky-Watcher Mount connection options
I also have info on
Serial interfaces as well as info on
serial interfaces to the Sky-Watcher type mount.
I hope that helps
cheers
Greg.
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Originally Posted by Startrek
Marios,
I thought you might be interested in having a look at or even using EQMOD and Stellarium to control your NEQ6 mount and navigate across the night sky
I wrote some procedures last month as I wanted to work out how to use the new Ascom supported Stellarium with EQMOD
I assume your NEQ6 mount has a RJ45 port connection ( where the hand controller plugs in ) not the latest USB2B port connection that the EQ6-R mount has
Attached are 3 options for using EQMOD and Stellarium to control your mount depending on what type of mount connection you have.
1/ Telescope Control via EQMOD and Stellarium ( using the old Stellarium Scope driver and EQ Direct cable )
2/ Telescope Control via EQMOD and Stellarium ( using Ascom and EQ Direct cable )
3/ Telescope Control via EQMOD and Stellarium ( using Ascom and the latest USB2 Direct cable )
Cheers
Martin
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