The Home Scope remains greyed out at all times.Īll in all, I have little confidence in using Starry Night to control the scope. SkySafari 6 Pro: Highly visual planetarium program with telescope control. Even then the display remains corrupted until I manage to click one of the two Disconnect butons that are displayed. The Sky Lite galaxy projector creates a beautiful starry sky effect with. If I use the Park button, Starry Night freezes and won't thaw out till I park the scope with the handset and switch off the power. If at any point I click on Sync Gaze button in Starry Night, the little red cross zooms off to La La Land and thereafter there is no chance of getting the mount to point to the correct location. Hover above the Earth for a detailed view of our home planet, before blasting off to explore deep space. What I took to be the Alt is equal to the Dec and the Azimuth makes no sense eg trying it a little while ago on Dubhe, the RA was 11h3.7m with what I thought was Az 247º 42' - no idea what that is. Enhanced telescope control makes Starry Night Pro Plus even easier to use, for unsurpassed astronomical observations.
STARRY NIGHT PRO PLUS 6 TELESCOPE CONTROL HOW TO
When I use "Show Position" on the handset, the RA/Dec coordinates look OK but there is another pair of coordinates shown which I assumed were the Alt/Az equivalents, but they don't agree with what Starry Night shows. How To Sync Starry Night 8 Pro Telescope Control Coordinates With Orion Sirius EQ-G Equatorial Mount Hand Controller Coordinates Because Slew-To Is Not Accurate (Answer: Align On Gaze - Read On) Gerry DiNunzio Novem14:25. Right clicking on an object and choosing "slew to" from the context menu seems to work OK. At this point I press "Connect" in Starry Night and the little red cross gets displayed sitting next to Polaris. I switch on the mount, go through the location, date and time questions and say "no" to alignment. I always park the scope (in the home position) via the handset and hence always start from there. Where I have a choice I've selected EqN for Track Mode and I enter the same latitude and longitude as stored in the handset. On the Telescope Set Up dialog in Starry Night, I've selected Celestron and tried NexStar 5i, 8i and 8 GPS.
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Connection from computer to handset is via the supplied RJ-11 to serial cable connected to a USB port using Astronomiser's serial to USB converter. The SynScan handset firmware is version 3.20 (updated today, but had the same problems with 3.12). At present, I'm just using the mount and computer indoors till I can get it working. Does anyone use Starry Night to control an EQ6? If so, I could use some help.