izeopk.blogg.se - Telescope control with stellarium

To help you to know the sky, there are several software's you can use and stellarium is my favorite one. It's a nice mount (cheap, portable and very easy to use), but to get what you want to see, you need to know the sky like the palm of your hands (which can be a problem to a beginner like me.!). Recently, I bought a 8" Newtonian telescope that came with a Dobsonian mount. Hit Connect, wait for the status to change to Connected and.I am fascinated by astronomy since the first time I looked to the night sky.Here you should find a row with the just configured connection Close the Add new Telescope panel and go back to Telescope Control Panel.to get all the current available devices, as seen by the server Take care to select INDI/INDIGO type of connection and click Refresh devices. Now select Add and fill all the parameters.Open the Telescope Control Panel and click on Configure Telescopes.Time to launch Stellarium, activate the Telescope Control plugin and restart Stellarium.Go back to Mount menu, select On coordinates set and revert the value to Slew target and track.This will perform the first Sync with the mount.

Go to Equatorial coordinates menu and select a star close to Equator and local meridian and click Set.

Go to Mount menu, select On coordinates set and set it to Sync to target.

Choose the proper serial device to which the mount is connected and change the mount status to Connected in Main menu.

In alternative, you just need to properly configure the network parameters in Stellarium telescope configuration panel. Here it is assumed that both INDIGO server and Stellarium are running on the same machine. 3.12 (505) but should work also with any **very** recent version of each of them. This has been tested by myself using the current Stellarium Beta 0.3 and INDIGO server ver. This comes after a bit of struggling and the Stellarium INDIGO integration performed by R. Let me share a way to make Stellarium work with StagGo on a MacOS machine.