[Kvl (Karl)]

Hi Barry,
Thanks for the reply.
Does Stellarium need a driver for the HEQ5 mount?
I assumed (always dangerous) that I could replace the SynScan hand controller with my laptop/notepad computer.
The plan was to use ASCOM for the telescope contol, Stellarium for the pretty picture/GUI to see what it thinks that the telescope is doing and Stellariumscope as the interface between the two.
As I said in my earlier post, all appears fine except for manual E/W slewing controlled by the ASCOM interface which is annoying but I can live without.
The automatic tracking appears fine (inside the house!). I am just waiting for a clear night to do a field test.
Reading the various threads in this and other forums shows that others are going down the same track with mixed results depending on the various software versions.
Are Stellarium developing their own control suite for the HEQ5 right now?
Can I add the display of transit times to the Stellarium wish list as this is a very useful feature for me?
Can I add another request for Stellarium, the logging of the telescope position to disk via a configurable interface or would this be better done via ASCOM or should I have a crack at it myself?

Karl.

PS Looks like ASCOM already have a logging feature