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Thanks for the update Greg. Good stuff. You have a small TheSky6 to TheSkyX transition learning curve to overcome. You'll get over that hump shortly.

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Another point of confusion is the mount will not work (at least as far as I can tell) using the Sky 6, only the SkyX.

Well, I for one would not expect SB to add support for new mounts to old obsolete versions of their software from years gone by. The Paramount MX comes with TheSkyX. Unless you've been running TheSky6 as a prior Software Bisque user from years back (as a few of us here have), you wouldn't have TheSky6 and wouldn't even know that it ever existed. I've been running TheSkyX for the last 14 months. I now don't miss TheSky6 for anything except the missing horizon draw editor (which alas I noticed right off the bat). If you notice any other missing important TheSky6 features, please go over to the SB support forums and request them.

Originally Posted by gregbradley

If you use CCDsoft then you must configure CCDSoft to run on the Sky X or it will not communicate with it.

Correct. It's a checkbox in CCDsoft->File->Preferences. However, a bigger issue is that CCDsoft doesn't come with the mount! In my opinion, it should. Especially when you read the manual and it starts talking about using CCDsoft to collect PE information for PEC programming. As a Paramount MX owner, if you don't already have a CCDsoft serial number, you can request a CCDsoft serial number and they will give it to you - free of charge for the asking.

Originally Posted by gregbradley

However the manual it comes with is one of the better manuals I have seen.

Yup. I think it is hands down the best manual they have produced yet.

Originally Posted by gregbradley

Although it seems to skimp over T-point and says to use the T-point users guide.

A complete PDF copy of which you can find in TheSkyX->Help. Use the supermodel feature any time you have more than six points mapped. Don't try to add terms on your own. Supermodel does this for you and does a better job than you can do manually. Don't even bother with the suggest button. It's no longer useful.

Originally Posted by gregbradley

I did the quick polar alignment routine in the manual and that is a cool feature.

Works with PME mounts too. Usually gets me within six or so knob tics before even running the first Tpoint run to fine tune polar alignment. Not bad.

Originally Posted by gregbradley

The Sky X has this half done telescope and filter wheel control program which looks like its a work in progress. It is very basic and considering they have CCDSoft already it wouldn't have taken much to implement CCDsoft fully into the Sky X. I suppose that would weaken their income though.

[Emphasis mine.]That is a particularly nasty and uncalled for thing to say. It's not just like they can drop in the old CCDsoft code and boom, make it so, or something. This is the fastest changing and improving area of TheSkyX. They have limited resources and are in fact working as hard as they can on integrating all of CCDsoft's features into the Camera Add On. Features which you will obtain 100% for free (because The Camera Add On has no subscription fee) as they are added over the next months and years. However long it takes, you will get them all eventually. In the mean time you can set the Camera Add On to use "CCDsoft's Camera." Or at least you can if you already have CCDsoft. I think they should give it to you with the mount. See above about requesting a CCDsoft serial number if you don't already have one.

Originally Posted by gregbradley

I know of 2 PMX's out there that had poor tracking.

Ouch. This is a rather sketchy third party anecdotal report. Please have the actual user's of the actual mounts come here and describe the problems and how they were addressed. That would be fair and I hope much more informative.