Drive Meade ETX70 via Stellarium #4366
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Stellarium only ever sends GOTO(RA, Dec). The only way to "fix" this is more coding, after fully understanding the existing Telescope Control plugin code. Or using an equatorial wedge. |
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Coding should not be such a problem, needs only converting RA-Dec into Altitude-Azimuth using observation site coordinates Long., Lat. and sideral time and replace Autostar target comands RA :SrHH:MM:SS#, DEC :SdsDDMM# with Alt :SasDDMM#, Az :SzDDD*MM#. |
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Hi, I have installed Stellarium 25.1 on my PC / Windows11 x86-64 and tried zu control my Meade ETX70AT 1. via direct connection via COM4 (using USBtoSerial & cable set #506) using plugin "Meade ETX70 (#494 Autostar #506 CCS)"- embedded driver and also
2. via ASCOM (V7.0.x) "Meade Classic & Autostar 1" driver via COM4.
In both cases a connection could be established and a slew to object can be started with CTRL0, but the target coordinates are transmitted as RA/DEC (not as AltAZ ). While the ETX70 is AltAZ mounted, the resulting slew is totally wrong.
There is also an ASCOM "AZGoto.."- driver (using observation site coordinatates), but Stellarium freezes, when using it.
Does anyone know a solution for this problem (except using an equatorial wedge) ? Any appropriate telescope drivers ?
Thanks a lot
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