![]() NB: Other key functions may be assigned in Windows to simplify number of key strokes Procedure to use Ascom control of telescope with Stellarium ( StellariumScope no longer required )Ĥ/ At the bottom of the drop down list select Telescope Controlĥ/ In Telescope Control tick Load at start upĦ/ Close Configuration window and shut down Stellariumħ/ Restart Stellarium and reconfigure Telescope Control by selecting Configuration F2 again, then Plugins tab, then Telescope control on left hand side drop down list, then press wide flat button “configure”Ĩ/ In Telescope window press button “Add” and then select “Ascom” as your telescope control and name your telescope or mountĨ/ Select “Choose your Telescope”then the Ascom Telescope Chooser appears so then select EQMOD HEQ5/6ġ0/ Select the telescope control you have listed, normally the first one automatically pops upġ1/ Select “Connect” and then the Ascom telescope control should connect EQMOD to mountġ2/ You should now be able to see your named scope and target icon in the sky view of Stellariumġ3/ Don’t forget to manually Unpark EQMOD before you slew to a targetġ4/ Default key functions for Stellarium are as follows -ĬTRL + Shift + 1 Sync scope ( adds alignment point )ĬTRL + Alt + Shift + 1 Cancels scope operation In late 2019 developer Gion Kunz finally provided Ascom telescope support in Stellarium version 0.19.3 onward thus eliminating the requirement to use StellariumScope in the future.StellariumScope can still be used but the developer recommends you adopt Ascom controlįor EQMOD users obviously the latest Ascom platform drivers must be installed as well as the EQASCOM driver and Stellarium version 0.19.3 From a Stellarium perspective when you press cntrl 1 it commands telescope 1 to Goto the selected object, cntrl 2 moves telescope 2 and cntrl 3 moves telescope 3 in the same way.Stellariumscope receives a notification when each of these moves are activated but for telescope 2 and telescope 3 it simply uses these notification events as triggers to initiate Ascom Stop and Sync functions.The telescope 3 Sync function has nothing to do with Stellarium at all, Stellarium doesn’t even know its happening it thinks it’s moving a telescope.Now this is where EQASCOM uses this telescope 3 function to add Sync points to its alignment model ( n - point alignment ) You can make as many sync points or alignment points as you like and EQASCOM will apply the most appropriate transformation to make pointing corrections. StellariumScope was developed by Scott Pinkham of ByteArts in 2007 as a third party software to configure Stellarium, connect your mount and provide functionality with slew, stop and sync commands thereby providing Stellarium with Ascom support for the control of the telescope mount.Stellariumscope connects to Stellarium as 3 separate telescopes. My issue was not related to Stellarium 20.2.It’s been bugging me for months to find more detailed information so after researching over the past week on the web here’s my summary of procedures for using Ascom control for your Skywatcher and Orion telescope mount with EQMOD users of Stellarium version 0.19.3 and later ( without the use of StellariumScope ) What caused the problem with EQMOD? My guess is that when I was playing with the Park script in APT the other night it may have stored a park point out there on the east where I was at the moment. The checkbox for open on startup is available and stays checked. Did that, re-register EQMOD, put my location in, and found the COM port and all good now. ![]() I googled the error and an old post on Sratgazers Lounge gave me the clue. I ran ASCOM diagnostics and one of the checks for EQMOD failed. ![]() Last night I worked a little longer on this and found the cause of the problem. Was disabling the auto start feature when ASCOM was selected as a quick fix / workaround to prevent that from happening? Maybe there's something wrong there and the telescope is set to automatically start even if the checkbox is not ticked and Can you post your setting files? do you recollect the location on Windows where the telescope configuration is written thanks for the response. I know there was an issue with ASCOM telescopes automatically starting on Stellarium start when there was no gear connected.
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