Orion StarShoot - minor problems with downloading Imaging software

[Ro3bert]

My Orion StarShoot G3C (C for color) camera came today. The software is found at http://www.telescope.com/catalog/product.jsp?productId=101501though it turned out I couldn't paste it into the address line. After a couple of times of that I decided to type it in. Worked fine that time.

Downloaded the software then opened it. It turns out the software as it now stands won't install because it requires ASCOM 6 which apparently is not included. So beware.

I finally went to the ASCOM site and downloaded V6.1 then Camera Studio installed ok.

I was a bit concerned as to where ASCOM would be downloaded to but it turned out to be a non-issue.

[Cornelius Varley]

Orion wouldn't include the Ascom platform because it is readily available from the Ascom website would probably be quickly out of date. 

ps the current version of the Ascom platform is 6.2 http://ascom-standards.org/

[Cornelius Varley]

See my reply to your previous post http://stargazerslounge.com/topic/259307-orion-starshoot-on-celestron-114lcm/