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No worries Brent and Peter,
Glad I could help.
I might add that I use the EQAscom plugin so that the mount talks to the PC and I can slew using the on screen buttons, great for centering the object with test shots on Backyard EOS.
With StellariumScope, this spawns the EQascom driver and then allows me to start Stellarium so that I can navigate to objects using Stellarium's on screen planetarium, this is UBER cool as you can find many more interesting objects up in the sky for the current time and then click on the PC screen and hit CTRL-1 and the PC tells the scope to GOTO the object. The "telescope" target in Stellarium shows me the current location of the scope and can even simulate the field of view of what you will see in the eyepiece using the "ocular" Stellarium plug in.
Its so funky and fun, sometimes I just use the camera and guidescope as a remote eyepiece and snap single shots of things I havent seen before and then slew to the next target, simply for the fun of it.
AND the kids and wife can see on the screen much better than trying the contortions / ladders etc to reach the funny eyepiece position on the newtonian OTA.
Good fun when you couldnt be bothered sitting there in the cold waiting for sub exposures to complete and just want a whirlwind tour of the night sky, using a more sensitive imager than your humble retina....
Cheers
Chris
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