and you are doing exactly the right thing it setting up indoors and making sure everything is working.
I feel your pain with respect to the weather Peter! Thank's to all of you for taking the time to solve my problem.
So here's for clear sky's when I can fit my Nikon D90 with it's computer controll to the telescope and, perhaps, get some decent photograph. I bought everything in March and have only had three clear night when I've been able to set it up outside. Twice I tried contacting Stellarium without any reply. All I had to do was leave the hand controller without setting it to PC Mode. I have just set up the tripod and EQ5 in my bedroom with the laptop to try out your suggestions. Let us know how you get on as I'm sure we can sort this out. You may find that the COM port number is specific to the USB port that you are using on the computer and / or that you need to install the USB-to-Serial interface driver for each USB hub. It should be under Ports (COM & LPT) - click on the arrow to the left to expand and you should see something like "Prolific USB-to-Serial Comm Port (COM4)".ģ) The COM4 bit tells you what to put into Stellarium The one complaint I would have is that sometimes Stellarium will allow you connect and stop mount control from the configuration dialogue box when in reality the Serial to USB and / or COM port configuration is not correct (and therefore scope control won't actually work).ġ) Are you sure your serial to USB interface is compatible with Windows 7?Ģ) Are you able to see the serial to USB interface in Device Manager? (in Win 7 go to Control Panel -> Hardware and Sound -> Device Manager). but so long as the Serial to USB interface is working correctly and the right COM port has been identified there is no reason why Stellarium can't be used to control the mount. Much more functional for scope control although it does require ASCOM drivers.
At the risk of completely derailing your thread, I would forget stellarium for scope control.
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