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Originally Posted by Stephane
Woops, sorry for the mix up Martin & Marc.
I found some older forum posts comparing Pixinsight & Startools which was also useful. I’ll study Startools in the near future. I want to first get the basics right of mount & imaging setup. I’ll be using Stellarium as my planetarium connected via ASCOM to the mount. Some guy on YouTube also called Martin (Martin’s Astrophotography) made a couple of great videos on polar & star aligning via Stellarium.
Cheers,
Stéphane
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Just remember Stellarium on its own is limited in relation to controlling the mount , great for navigation when doing visual etc.. but you really need EQMOD with Stellarium to be able to perform super accurate Goto by creating a pointing model across the sky with Sync commands. ( I sent you the procedures for Stellarium and EQMOD) The next step beyond this would be plate solving which is another leaning curve via your preferred capture software
I like EQMOD for it’s simplicity and accuracy. The more you use it the quicker it becomes finding and centering objects
Cheers
Martin