chris1986

Hello, I have the following mount: EQ5 Pro Goto with Synscan Ver: 3.39 Running on Win 7, ASCOM 6.5 SP1, Skywatcher ASCOM driver 6062, Starry Night SE8 Whenever I select the "Skywatcher Telescope" inside the "ASCOM Chooser" and press 'Properties', I get a "ASCOM.SkyWatcher.Location" Error and cannot connect to the mount. When that happens I have to reinstall the skywatcher ascom drivers and then am able to open the properties window for the skywatcher mount ONCE only. Whenever I try to open it again, i get the 'location'-error. That also happens quite often, when i only attempt to connect to the skywatcher. I wonder if somebody else encountered this problem. I suspect it is a problem with the skywatcher ascom driver and how it reads the GPS location: The driver reads the location from the handset itself, not the edit-fields inside the property editor. That is fine, but whenever one opens the property editor it wants to fill the fields with the gps-coordinates from the handbox and a conversion error occurs (int2float). In The ASCOM-Profile Explorer the coordinates are saved as float, but inside the logs after the location error i see that it tried to read the float as integer without a comma and gives the error (521134244 > 90 (52.1134244 being my location)). Does anybody have a similar problem and how can it be fixed. Firmware-wise, everything is up-to-date (see above). On a different note, I also tried to run EQMOD but here i have a ton of different issues. Connection works, but i cannot move the RA-axis in sub-sidereal steps. It doesnt give an error, but I can hear that after the software gives the signal to the mount, it doesnt move. Also only RA but not DEC has this problem. This makes running PHD2 for example useless. Also its not a hardware problem, since running the mount via the Skywatcher Ascom (see above) alows for a 0.5x sidereal mode, which works fine for RA and DEC. So I guess its a EQMOD-issue in this case. I know these problems are very specific but I would apprechiate any help. Thank you, Christian