Stellarium and ASCOM

[Ant]

Since moving to Windows 7 I've been using SN4 Pro to control the HEQ5 (via the EQDIR / ASCOM).

It worked fine for months... So for a couple of sessions

Last night was clear, I wasn't tired so I thought I'd take the opportunity to 1. Get out under the stars and 2. Check that everything worked for Kelling.

Boy am I pleased that I did.

Everything worked flawlessly, ASCOM connected to the mount, PHD connected to the DMK, Maxim to the H9, Filterwheel OK. Both both camera's were par focal

Loaded up SN and went to connect to the telescope and everything is grayed out!!! Checked the plugin folder - plug is there. So this is the Quicktime issue again...

I uninstalled Quicktime and reinstalled from the SN CD - but get an issue Quicktime failed to to do something or other (uninstalled and reinstalled several times), even did a system restore...

So I have decided that SN4 is probably not going to be fixed in time for Kelling.

I also have Stellarium, I don't seem to have any options for connecting to ASCOM.

Can anyone give me some pointers please? I have a week to sort this out.

Cheers

Ant

[MarkF]

Try Carte Du Ciel, it works a treat with EQmod.

[MikeP]

If I remember correctly, Stellarium needs something else to enable you to connect - I'll have a look and get back to you.

Mike

[MikeP]

Have a look here Ant .... Telescope Control - Stellarium

I've deleted it off my machine but it may have been Stellarium Scope that I installed.

Mike

[MikeP]

Have a look here too Stellarium/Stellarium Scope/EQMod questions - Astronomy Forums | Telescope Forums & Reviews | Astronomy Community

Mike

[Shibby]

Yep, although I haven't tried anything else, I can highly recommend StellariumScope - connects EQ-ASCOM up to Stellarium. (Make sure you have the latest version of Stellarium)

[martin_h]

Get it from here - Astronomy - StellariumScope

[Ant]

Cheers all...

Got Stellarium scope working - but with the simulator scope as I didn't have the scope in my office.

When I'm back home I'll try it out with the scope for real.

What I haven't worked out yet is how to get the scope to move to an object from within Stellarium (I can only find a RA/DEC goto)?!? But I'm sure I'll get there...

Once again thanks for everyones help.

Ant

[martin_h]

CTRL+1 = GOTO, CTRL+3 = SYNC, CTRL+5 = STOP

[Ant]

Thats assuming that I set the three scopes up in the same order as the example...

I know that I set three up (which seemed odd to me). But I did it anyway.

So assuming I did set them up in the same way.

I find the object that I want to move the scope to in Stellarium - centre it and then click CTRL+1..?

Have I understood that right?

Cheers

Ant

[martin_h]

Click on the object in Stellarium - or use the search window, then CTRL+1 to slew scope to object. If all setup ok you should see your scope cross hair move across the screen to the object - indeed you should see your actual scope move as well(in an ideal world)

I think you have to setup 3 scopes for all the commands because Stellarium its self only had goto built in (not sync or stop)

[Shibby]

StellariumScope can set that up for you - just click "Update Stellarium Configuration"