CaptMo

Hi I'm tying to use a new Android Moto g54- 5g Mobile or an I pad I downloaded Stellarium from the I pad shop, so I hope it's the mobile version I do have the PC version installed on a PC , but that is using wired LAN not WIFI this is not connected at present I may have got this working now, I have yet to align the Telescope I updated the I Pad Software to the latest version today, looks like things have changed for the better I've connected the Telescope using the SynScan Pro App and can move the Telescope OK It now depends on if you use the I pad in Full screen, Slide or Split left or Split right I can't get it to work Full screen even though both apps are running in the background With the I Pad screen set to Split view right, looks good, Go To works and arrow keys work on both Stellarium and the SynScan App With the I pad screen set to Split view left this initially covers over the Stellarium Controls, but you can reset this by swapping Split screen right then Split screen left also this works fine With the I pad screen set to Slide the Go To function doesn't work nor do the Stellarium controls the Synscan Pro seem to work all a bit iffy The good thing at the moment is the Control's are no longer locking up after the I pad update So it's update I pad to latest version, use split screen right and your away or use split screen right then split screen left then your OK Give I pad full screen and slide a miss Re using the Mobile you need the full paid version to control the scope I'll try this for a while and let you know if the keys locking up come back Thank you for your assistance

Hi First of all thank you for the information on setting up using the Ipad I have put the SynScan pro software onto 3 devices all of which give me different issues 1. On my older mobile for some reason when I connect to the SynScan WIFI Dongle after a few seconds it just disconnects itself? 2. On my new mobile It stays connected and I can control the Telescope OK and the Fuji camera,I have loaded Stellarium standard edition, but I don't seem to have a way to control The Telescope I might have to buy the full version 3. I loaded SynScanPro and Stellarium full version, Set the I pad onto the SynScan WIFI connects OK, Then I opened up SynScan Pro software but when I move the Telescope the Synscan Pro control arrows seem to get stuck sometimes and the Telescope then can only be stopped by switching off the Sky Watcher box I have closed down all the other apps on the I pad, It seems to work sometimes when both of the Apps above are enabled I did have some connection Issues using the Synscan Pro software, but I think that was due to the WIFI being on the same WIFI channel as my Router / AP's I've set the AP's to Channel 6 and Channel 11, I have turned off the router WIFI and I have set the Synscan WIFI dongle to Channel 1 I'd would like to get this fixed if I can some help would be appreciated I have just loaded SynScan Pro on it own it seems to work OK, I then opened up Stellarium still OK until I connected it to the mount the The Arrow keys have locked

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Well at last the Clouds cleared enough so I managed to try a few things out. I wanted take a video of the moon at 30 frames per second then export the video in frames and stack them I couldn't see the North star, so I couldn't align the Telescope so I used the manual controls Well I took a number of videos and some still shots during the evening also tried out using extender tubes and a close up lens The additional close up lens caused a funny worm mark to appear on the moon L.O.L so they got ditched The next day I went through the Videos and found out that some were a bit wobbly so they got ditched So using Magix Movie Maker, I added a video of the moon and exported the frames, at 30 frames a second there were loads Then I found out they were BMP and the stacking program Helecon Focus I use for Macro Photography couldn't see BMP So next I ran Paint Shop Pro and converted the BMP to jpg I seperated these into 2 separate folders I then started to stack the Photos 30 at a time IE 1 seconds worth then 60 etc I then noticed that as the Moon was moving, it gave a horizontal shift of the moon in the frames, the stacking program wasn't able to align them spot on, at around 60 frames all looked OK I then stacked 60 frames at a time the results looked OK I wondered if I could stack 2 x 60 frames, this worked as well I kept doing this until 300 frames had been used ie 10 seconds worth The Camera saved these as jpg at 1920 x 1080, not as good as it can for single shots as its a 24 mp camera I had set the camera on manual for ISO 120 and dialed down the light levels and the moon was quite bright I noticed on video the settings were a little different I've uploaded the sequence I converted them to Black and White for some reason you see more detail

Thank you Just need some clear skys

Update 04.03.2014 - 11.29 Connect to Scope using the WIFI Dongle I installed SynScan Pro onto my laptop, I left the Ascom and Eqmod installed so I can use the USB Wired connection if I want to, but I have disconnected the USB Cable for now Connected the Laptop to the WIFI Dongle directly available in the WIFI, this has no internet connection Connected to the telescope using SynScan pro With that running in the background, In Stellarium telescope control, I created a new connection using External software or remote computer, j2000, local host, port 10001, then connected to the WIFI dongle The Telescope is now controlled over WIFI, it moves Ok in SynScan using the software arrows, and using Stellarium, but I can't say how accurate that is at the moment. One problem I hit was setting the time In Stellarium the time is set using the Laptop keys that are already allocated for volume controls. I have set the time to take the system time Update 04.03.2024 - 13.57 I have installed Stellarium plus and Synscan pro onto my Ipad to see how that fairs Initially when I pressed the arrow buttons in the Synscan Software the buttons stayed pressed down? causing havoc as the Telescope kept moving out of control. I'm not sure what has changed but it works now I have enabled a password on the WIFI The Telescope controls are found them in Observing tools, I turned the slider on to enable control I set the Telescope up to Polaris roughly to test and then Aligned using the Ipad Stellarium Align From the screen I selected a start and off it went I'll set it up properly when the weather improves

Thank you much appreciated

First of all thank you for letting me join I'm a complete newbe to this, I took some advice from a guy online and decided to go in with both feet. I bought a Skywatcher 150 PDS with a 2 inch 28mm lens also can take 1.25 inch with converter It looks quite well built and Im currently learning how to use it I also bought other bits and pieces, so I could use a Digital Camera, Mobile Phone and a Collimation Laser I went on line to learn how to Collimate the Telescope, I managed to get the laser nearly in the small ring of the rear mirror, and get the laser light in the center of the Laser Collimator Armed with this I set up in the back garden to see if I could see the moon, although I found the moon moves quite fast, I was facinated to see the detail of the moon through the eye piece I then decided to attach a Fuji x-t30 Digital Camera and take a few shots I've attached a few below I think the most difficult part was to focus the Telescope and keep track of the Moon using the control knobs Over the last couple of month's our weather hasn't been very good I'm currently trying out different Software to get the Base to work, so far that's been a problomatic The Synscan controller operates the Telescope OK using the manual buttons on the hand set Using a PC, I connected this to the Synscan unit using a wired USB connection, I have installed the ASCOM, EQMOD and Stellarium Software I have managed to get this to work somewhat, but I need a clear night to set everything up I managed to find the north star Polaris, but have yet to point the Telescope at it due to the weather In the house the telescope moves around under the control of the Windows PC - laptop but sometimes not where you expect it to Next decided to buy the WIFI dongle and plugged it in where the Synscan handset goes I tried the Ipad first, I loaded Stellarium, SynScan Pro and also SynScan Link This is where the fun started, I connected the Ipad to the Dongle, I chose to look at the moon and off the base it went, not sure if it was close, but at lease the telescope moved I set up the scope to Point North to Polaris first as I new roughly where that was with the weights towards the ground Since I was indoors, I asked the software to place the Telescope towards the Sun, this it did and was in the right direction, height was a bit off, however I then asked it to return to Polaris it also did this But the base was now not as I started the weights were now horizontal? I manually reset this Then I found a big problem. I started to play around with the manual control keys on the Ipad for some strange reason, after you pressed the screen control keys, they stayed locked IE white,I was unable to control the Telescope in fact the Telescope was moving and I was unable to stop it. I resorted to a Synscan OFF then back ON to reset everything? I then tried the Synscancan Link software this did control the Telescope direction OK? I can only assume its a software bug After all that I also noticed that apparently the Stellarium software can't control the Telescope and I needed to put the Syscan software onto a different unit, so I installed this onto my Android Mobile Phone and that worked OK Ill see if I can find solutions to these issues and keep you posted Moon 3 70 images stacked.tif