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When finished you can park the scope and disconnect. You can have several scopes set up which will use the number 1-9 and 0 thus if you have a scope set up under number 4 then you will need to press ‘cmd+4’ to slew. Just find a target, click on it and press ‘cmd+1’ assuming you have one scope set up, your scope should now slew to this target. If you have just connected after polar alignment then this should have the scope marker next to Polaris (assuming your scope is parked in this position.) Now in Stellarium you should see a marker with the scope name next to it. Therefore, when you are ready connect your cable to your Mac and handset and in Stellarium press ‘cmd+0’, it may be necessary to click on ‘configure telescope’ find the scope and click ‘start’. In either case, before you connect to Stellarium it is important to note that you do not need to enter ‘PC Direct Mode’ which is rather counter-intuitive but works! Once done you can then perform your star alignments or connect to Stellarium. Once Stellarium is set up you are ready to connect your mount.įirst start up the mount, enter the usual information, long / lat, date, time etc etc and perform your usual polar alignment. This is as far as you need to go in Stellarium however under ’User interface settings’ you can set some FOV indicators. Under ‘Device model’ choose ‘Celestron NexStar (compatible)’ This will allow control over Sywatcher mounts.
You are looking for something along the lines of cu.usbserial make sure to copy the cu.xxxxxxxxx and not the tty.xxxxxxxxx into Stellarium and paste it after the /dev/ so you will end up with something like /dev/cu.usbserialĤ. To fill in the correct information go need to go to terminal and type cd /dev followed by the return key then type ls this will list all the devices contained on your system.
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Under ‘Device settings’ you then need to tell Stellarium what and where the serial port is. Under the heading ‘Telescope Properties’ give the telescope a name (I chose NEQ6 as this is the make of mount I want to control.) Everything else under this tab can be left as default.ģ. Under the heading ‘Telescope controlled by:’ click the radio button next to ‘Stellarium, directly through a serial port’ Ģ. Once in here there are a few settings that need to be sorted out:ġ. This is done by pressing ‘cmd+0’ and then clicking on ‘configure telescopes’.Ĭlick ‘add’ which will take you into the ‘Add New Telescope’ dialogue box. The first thing to do is to start Stellarium and set up a new telescope connection.
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This driver seems to be the best one around for controlling USB to Serial adapters. So for reference and for anyone else who wants to know how this is achieved below are the steps taken.įirstly I am using a generic USB to Serial adapter (brought from Maplins) with a drive downloaded from Prolific ( Welcome to ) - PL2303 Driver for Mac. Today I have been able to try the suggestion out, which, was pretty straight forward. After several hours of not getting anywhere and some serious frustration I posted a question on the Stellarium launchpad which was eventually answered this week. The background - I tried several weeks ago to control my mount through Stellarium with my Macbook Pro.
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Maybe it could be made a sticky if the mods / other members feel its worth it. Hopefully this will be useful to others here on the forum.