Alex the great

10 minutes ago, michael8554 said:

You can't Goto with that setup. 

You would need to buy a goto upgrade. 

This includes encoders that measure the position of the mount in RA and Dec, so that it knows how long to slew each time it moves to a new location. 

Michael 

Thanks michael8554

do you have some link where I can go and have more info

Thanks everybody for your quick answers now is clear to me. I will need to go some other way

Hello everybody on this community, very happy I recently joined stargazers lounge.com

Last November I was able to modify my EQ5 mount via shoestring astronomy GPUSB (ST4 mount-USB laptop, my guiding camera is connected to the laptop by USB and PHD2 as guiding software) so I can autoguide it for long periods 6 minutes and more, I was really happy that this project was achieved and now I can get more details out of deep sky objects.

My question is how can I go GOTO with this set up, trying to find objects to image is really time demanding without GOTO, and my goal is to take advantage of time to get those photons.

I installed already ASCOM but I didn't connect with the USB connection (I think only work with serials cable)

Thanks in advance for your valuable comments