![]() This is something which needs to be raised with EQUMOD/ASCOM.Ģ.4: Check the little white box "Connect".Ģ.5: The EQMOD ASCOM DRIVER screen should appear.Ģ.6: Click on the "SETUP" button to display the full window.ģ.1: Click on “Options” drop down menu, then select “Modify Stellarium Command line”ģ.2: The command line window is displayed, enter the directory containing "Stellarium" and click OK.ģ.3: Press "Update Stellarium Configuration" buttonģ.4: Press "Start Stellarium" button and Stellarium should start. You should probably use this less accurate value converted back to 34 degrees 23 minutes 24 (0.4*60) seconds in Stellarium! Stellarium latitude and longitude format is degrees, minutes and seconds to two decimal places.StellariumScope latitude and longitude format is degrees and then minutes to one decimal place.Step 1 Find your telescope (USB to Serial) com port on your computer.Ĭontrol Panel -> Device Manager -> Ports (COM&LPT) to see the various com ports, eg Prolific USB-to-Serial Comm Port (COM3)Ģ.1: Click on the browse button with 3 dots on it, and the ASCOM Telescope Chooser window is displayed.Ģ.2: Select "EQMOD ASCOM EQ5/6" from the dropdown box.Įnter your data for Latitude, Longitude, Elevation, Hemisphere and select your com port, e.g. And finally, Windows 7 (or probably XP).Īssume that you have installed ASCOM Platform 5, the ASCOM 5.5 update, Stellarium 0.10.5, StellariumScope 20100614 and EQMOD v121d and updated your video drivers.Īssume that you have a HEQ5 mount, a Shoestring adaptor, a RS232 to USB cable (and driver software) and it is powered up and plugged in to your computer.This provides the necessary interface between Stellarium and the EQMOD. However, if you want to use the EQMOD interface and Stellarium, which looks like the below: Celestron NextStar or compatible telescope.Note: Stellarium comes with some built-in Telescope control software The absolute must before installing Stellarium is to have the very latest video card drivers installed on your computer and even then there may be some issues. Installation and set-up Stellarium, EQMOD, (ACSOM ) and Stellarium Scope ![]() How to install and set-up Stellarium, EQMOD (ACSOM) and StellariumScope. If you have a HEQ5 or EQ6 mount, a Shoestring (or similar) adaptor, a RS232 to USB cable and it is plugged in to your computer and you know your latitude, longitude, elevation and hemisphere, then, read on. Don't have Windows? As I outline below, Stellarium has some built-in scope drivers, so you may be OK.To get a visual indication of where the telescope is pointing by looking at “cross Hairs” on a planetarium, preferably with a circular “field of view”, to watch the movement of the telescope relative to the background stars to see where it is going, to be able to “roughly” automatically track a given object and then correct the small errors automatically to get “perfect” guidance. Is the Win version ( which requires Open GL graphics), since I wanted to use the PC-only ASCOM telescope drivers with it. Well as Windows, but what I downloaded and what I’ll be talking about here exclusively The program is available for Linux and OSX as Since I didn’t have any other ideas, and Stellarium is free, Iįigured I had nothing to lose, and downloaded ![]() I wanted were now present, and that more than a few of the rough edges I hadn’t like had been Improved greatly since I’d last looked at it, that some of the missing features Stellarium was program I’d used occasionally over the years, and I’d heard it had been TheSky X, which is available for immediate download from their website, but I am cheap, and I was also leery of trying to learn to use X in I could have shelled out more than a few bucks to Bisque for ![]() What would I do, then? What would I do? Unfortunately, TheSky and CdC were the onlyįull-featured planetariums currently on my hard drive. ![]()
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