Newbie, looking for advice and information on hardware and software for control of eq horseshoe mount.

[skyguynca]

HI, I am David. I am a machinist and welder. Retired Army, retired professional skydiver/tandem instructor.
I have built many cnc mills, lathes, routers and a plasma cutter.

I am looking for help in making my telescope mount more automated and for it to goto and track objects.

I know there are alot of planetarium software programs out there that will work with such computer controlled telescopes.

I am looking for something that will run in windows 10, can be controlled with the planetarium software for the goto function and that track the objects chosen.

Also can use standard nema 23 or 34 servos, and stepper drivers and hopefully standard control boards that use a ethernet port or parallel port on a pc.

 

Thanks for your help

David

[skybadger]

If you are building the go-to yourself, Onstep will get you started fastest, from commercial parts. There's a large wiki for it on the interweb.