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Just a thought is the handbox in EQ mode and not AZ ?

photo's might help as a guide even from you phone

Welcome Darren to SGL From across the pond nice shot of the neighbour

Welcome to SGL From France and enjoy Andy

Vin, Did you get VNC working? As out of the box on stellarmate mine works ok what version are you using? and I am using VNC viewer on my pc from https://www.realvnc.com/en/connect/download/viewer/ As per astroberry you have to enable it from cmd window and type sudo raspi-config then enable it or from the menu in interfaces from memory or you can find it from the menus Andy

A warm welcome from France

have a look at this site and print your own http://www.deepskywatch.com/deepsky-atlas.html

Virtual Moon Atlas https://ap-i.net/avl/en/start Same guy for CDC and CCDciel

think they are 1/4" inch unc https://www.astroboot.co.uk/ab.php?needle=etx

https://www.superiorwasher.com/washers/75/Delrin.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reticulum

Hello DST And welcome to SGL could you elaborate a little do you have and RPI 4 with Stellarmate or are you looking to get one? the camera you have is sv205 is that an SVBoney one by chance ? Andy

If you decide to revisit this. just post away there must be something simple that we have all overlooked. Good luck in the replacement lappy

Hey Marv, Wouldn't worry about it. In windows 10 it is in settings , language, spelling, AutoCorrect miss spelt words me thinks on/off. keeps them guessing... Andy

OK you have camera only connectred via usb lead yes? does your pc see the usb card in the camera? yes/no in device manager what driver usb does it list for the camera? in device manager delete all reference 450D unplub camera reboot pc then plug in camera the problem is software related

those pesky thumbscrews if using stock focuser adapter pinches the eyepieces/collimator I changed my 150pds to the adapter fitted with compression ring get's me a better collimation also my eyepieces don't get marks on them from the thumbscrews

you say that camera connects to qdslrdashboard can you go into device manager under usb devices and post a picture as qdslrdashboard uses Zadig driver. Did you install qdslrdashboard onto your wife's computer?

What all these case's lack is the Steel tube with a Hamlet cigar for when you find something new in the sky. "I found that" (Sorry non smokers) as I am one but had to giggle. If you get what I mean. But those wooden cases are great and a real craft of work.

that's why I did metalwork at school tried woodwork, but wood gives in to easy to mistakes.... And to this day my job involves steel/metals so friendly

you say it worked on your laptop then it did an update (Windows) then stopped working. Did you try uninstalling APT and re-installing. Maybe post on the APT forum your problem. can you try the camera in a different USB port on your computer and when it detects the camera select do nothing in the canon utility or click cancel then launch APT

To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer

Take a look in Img Tab->Preview Effects if there are activated options like image flipping maybe a thought but not 100%

Stash, No problem just shut down lappy and hit power started apt no problem. why am I missing something?

Update finished and rebooted camera still connects so upgraded APT to latest version and still ok by the way you have the camera in M mode before connecting to APT

Just for sake I Am doing a windows update as I type on my win10 Pro 64 bit and i'll see what happens after cumulative 1909 update so will let you know when it has finished