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Originally Posted by mldee
Thanks to Peter_4059 I have been able to achieve some promising drift alignment results. I then moved on to a N-star alignment with EQMOD 1.17d, which has a significant change to the alignment interface, apparently requiring use of the SYNC function to accept a star. I have yet to find a user guide for the new version.
When you click on the telescope function in Stellarium it initially asks you if you wish to slew or sync. I selected slew and clicked the little box to always do a slew, thinking I could change it later.
I can't find anyway to change it as the box no longer comes up, it always slews  , so I can slew the scope to a star, align it correctly, but am unable to sync, so can never complete the alignment.
The 10.2 user manual is still very short on telescope control info, so Barry, what's the answer? I tried CDC and all worked fine, but I would prefer to use Stellarium if it will do the job. |
Hi Mike
I don't quite get what you mean by a box coming up originally and not now.
The only telescope controls I use are the LX200 and these just read the position of the telescope in RA/Dec and feed it to Stellarium where the RA/Dec position on the screen is displayed as a circle and cross.
When you wish to slew the telescope you press Ctrl with the number you allocated to the scope and Stellarium sends the new RA/Dec coords to the scope followed by a slew (goto) command.
If you are using the ASCOM driver. This was written by someone not of the project so you will need to check with the ASCOM people. It is possible that the EQ mount driver supplied by them has changed.
Regarding a later user manual we are working on that and I have a version (incomplete) for version 0.10.2 but there are so many changes with 0.10.3 that I have stopped editing it till the changes are finalised.
Barry