Neil McRae

I am trying to understand why the term "star aligned" is being used for Stellarium. If I am reading the documentation correctly Stellarium Plugin ONLY sends slew commands and receives mount positions.

I believe the mount needs to be accurately "polar aligned" and starting from a "Home Position" can slew to an objects coordinates.

When the SynScan is put in "PC Direct Mode" the "star alignment data" which was previously done does not count for anything as it is acting only as a connection to the mount from Stellarium thereby the alignment data it contains is not used.

If I am wrong please let me know. I only write this so that it avoids confusion

Neil

Simon I have over the past 2 weeks been playing with stellarium and the scope mounts. What I use is EQ5 Synscan and installed EQMOd and Stellarium Scope.

Stellarium ONLY slews the mount you cannot align Stellarium. What I did was

1 Align mount to point North and balance it. Plug in RS232 cable to SynScan.

2 Mount set in Alt to 51deg

3 Make sure EQMOD and stellarium all have the same lat and long

4 Connect EQMOD and connect. Connect also Stellarium Scope.

5 On EQMOD Unpark the scope

5 Using Stellarium select Sun (Scope is not on the mount) and press ctrl +1

The mount then slews to the sun (pretty accurately) and on EQMOD select Solar track. I have left it tracking for over an hour and all looks pretty good.

I believe what I still have to do is 3 or N point align using EQMOD and then use stellarium to GOTO.

I think the synscan alignment is not of any value as you are using the Synscan ONLY to connect to the mount and as soon as you select PC Direct on the Synscan it is out of the equation.

Got a wireless gamepad yesterday and customised the buttons on it for use with EQMOD. Still got to do the alignment process on the night sky

Hope this helps

Neil