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That makes sense. Long exposure will give a fuzzy image if there is slight movement (as I didn’t have it mounted at that point due to testing it all), mono will give the black and white image. So ye that makes sense. Thank you

Getting this when trying to use ASCOM device hub

I know, that was what i thought too. It’s almost as if in PHD2 the camera chip is far more sensitive. I can only see the poor image on PHD2 by using a pinhole method, and even then it is black and white. Whereas Sharpcap is colour and does not need the pinhole method to display an image.

No offence taken at all. I thought i was ok (although not good) with tech…but i am struggling with this. The link you supplied is the site i have been trying to use, however the Ascom drivers won’t download from it for me. No matter how often i click the link nothing happens at all. The video in Peters comment is the video i have used a few times, but the links etc are not the same as the video, so guessing things have changed since the video was uploaded. I appreciate the help everyone is trying to supply. Just seems like there isn’t a lot of user information supplied for this mount…or for a total tech idiot like myself lol.

Yes using exactly the same camera and guide scope and isn’t the same focus between the two. The video (in theory) should help…however the links don’t work as they do in the video, so guessing things have changed since the video was uploaded.

Ye i read quite a few reviews on the mount and it seemed a good buy. Ok…so which Ascom drivers do i need? I can’t seem to get information as to what programs i need to download…and the Ascom website sends me to the explore scientific website, which in turn i can finally get to download the relevant drivers and then I can’t get Ascom to run at all. Every time i click on Ascom on my laptop it wants to reinstall it all rather than opening any sort of programme. I can’t find a tutorial anywhere for my mount that explains how to do all of this.

I will get an image next time i have them set up. It’s like a very out of focus grey image, Sharpcap gives a nice coloured image that is easy to focus.

Ok cool thank you. I shall give this another go when I next have clear skies…whenever that may be! I learn better by being hands on and being shown it all…which has been a definite no go over the last 2 years with this hobby 🙄

So should I not be worrying about Ascom? Using the “On Camera” selection I don’t need Ascom…am I right?

Makes sense to focus the image before polar aligning to be fair. Ye the intervalometer for the dslr, I don’t connect that to laptop.

I did manage to get an image to appear on PHD2 since posting this, but it was very poor compared to Sharpcap

I have the camera connected to the mount and the laptop, so the camera is the middle step so to speak. Does the laptop need to be the middle step? So connected to to mount and the camera? Yes the mount has a guide port. PHD won’t connect to any of the Ascom selections so have it connected to the “on camera” setting. I can’t seem to get Ascom to work either, keeps telling me it has hit a fatal issue and won’t start.

Hi all, first post, so I apologise if this has been posted elsewhere and I have not seen it, or if I have posted this incorrectly in the wrong place and/way. So, I need some help with my set up. I have been struggling to get this system working as I can’t find a lot of information on the kit set I have. Using an IExos PMC-Eight-100 mount, a Canon EOS Rebel T3i camera, Tamron AF 70-300mm lens, SVBony compact 30mm guide scope and a T7C (ZWO asi120 copy) guide camera. From what I gather I need to polar align the mount, then 3 star align it via the app, then connect my T7C to PHD2 and star select to guide. The issue comes that I can’t seem to get anything to show up in PHD2, just a grey screen. It is up to date version and the camera displays a nice image in SharpCap. So my questions are; Do I have sufficient equipment for things like Orion Nebula, Horse head and Pleiades for example? Have I got the right steps to make it work as it should? Why is PHD2 not giving any image? Is there an easier way to get this to guide that I am not aware of?