[gregbradley]

I am using my PMX mount and going through the teething troubles.

I now have everthing working; cameras, filter wheels, autoguider.

But I tried to autoguide with the Lodestar last night and the autoguider does not have a connection with the mount only the main camera.

So corrections don't work and I get a no connection with mount error message.

I am using Wins 7 64 bit and CCDsoft. I had it set to direct drive guiding.
I then setup the Lodestar guide cable and plugged it into the guide port on the PMX and it made no difference.

Any suggestions?

I also went to use T-Point in The SkyX. It would not plate solve an image. I did not enter a postion angle as I had hoped it would plate solve it and get one itself but not so. I may have to do this using T-point and the Sky 6 and then enter in the angle found if I can get that to work.
The PMX manual only touches on T-point and says its in the T-point users guide so I'll have to get a copy of that.

So far I am finding the Sky X not very user friendly and quite different to the Sky 6 and less robust. I also don't like the graphics display of the stars etc. Perhaps I'll get used to it. Not a good start though.
I guess its a complex piece of software and a lot to know about it even if you are very familiar with the Sky 6. There are similarities but there are also odd complexities like it has a control the camera section which looks like its only half done and gets in the road rather than helps.



Greg.