How to connect your SkyWatcher HEQ5/6 mount to Stellarium via ASCOM EQMOD | Astrophotography
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 มิ.ย. 2020
- In this video, I'll show you how to connect your Skywatcher HEQ5/6 mount to Stellarium and EQMOD via a native ASCOM connection. In this video, I assume that you already have EQMOD working via your SynScan hand controller or via direct USB on the mount. If that is not the case, please check out my earlier video on how to connect your Skywatcher telescope mount to EQMOD via a direct USB.
Clear skies!
Video on how to setup EQmod via Direct USB/ASCOM for your skywatcher mount:
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Thank you so much for creating this video! So many people still use StellariumScope without knowing about the direct ASCOM support of Stellarium :-D
Your videos are always useful.
Just started playing around with doing this two nights ago, perfect timing!
Thanks Neil, hope you'll get it working!
Great help to a relative newby to computer assisted telescoping. Hip, hip hooray for Wido.
Fantastic video with an easy to follow tutorial, thank you your ace.
Really really useful and easy. Thanks for this tutorial.
Love your videos
Thanks mate! your the best!
Loved It!
Thanks for this and other awsome videos it's very helpful.
Nice and easy. Thanks for the help.
Glad to hear this video was useful, clear skies!
He Wido, there are 2 very handy key combinations in stellarium.
First is control+1 to slew after a target is selected in stellarium. The second is control+3 for aligning the scope with a star. Control+3 Will let you do a star alignment with as many stars as you want in that way
Hi Remco, Thanks! For some reason, these hotkeys do not work when I remote connect to my mini pc via Teamviewer. Also ctrl+1 seems to work when connecting directly via my laptop, but ctrl+3 doesn't. Don't know why.
Thank you Remco for the tip. I will try it also.
Thanks. I was using the newer USB version of the mount with StellariumScope until you showed me a scroll bar in the telescope configuration panel. I am now able to let Stellarium start Ascom.
great! Good to hear this tutorial was useful for you Stanley.
Please cover the use of and , these are very useful controls!
Hello from Texas! Thank you for the very good video. Thanks to you, I now have Stellarium and my HEQ6-R Pro connected and can slew to specific DSOs. My only comment, and I hope you do not view this as negative, but sometimes you move and speak very quickly. For example at 2:39, you say to "click on this button" but because you do it so quickly, and don't tell us what the button is, I have to watch and rewind the video several times to see what "this button" is. I figured it, and am greatful that I have you as a resource, but if you slow down about 10% we can better follow your instruction. Aside from that very minor issue, thank you, again, for a very informative video. I have clicked the like button and subscribed. Wishing you clear skies!
Hi Steve, thanks for the positive feedback. I do have a tendency to rush through tutorials sometimes, I will try to improve that in future videos. Clear skies - I bet you have some nice dark skies in Texas...:-).
Nice video mate
TX as always Ryan
@@AstroForumSpace no worries mate
Oh I did not have ascom menu. Maybe I should download new version of stellarium
Thank you! Great video.
I was able to connect my new SkyWatcher pro to my computer for the first time ever last night! Polar aligned and everything!
My telephone does not sync to the stars though. When I slew to a star it is not in the center of the eyepiece. I tried to Ctrl+3 but nothing seems to happen. Any plans for making a video about syncing the SkyWatcher?
Stellarium can be a bit off. I'm also struggling with that. It made me switch to sequence generator Pro, which includes a platesolving option.
You can press CTRL and telescope number to start the slew on the object selected in screen. Ie CTRL and 1. It will also start tracking immediately after slewing has stopped. I don’t bother with the pop up screen.
How did you bring the “slew telescope to” window to display?
Hi buddy !!! Thanks for the info !!!... now... the telescope must start from park position... ok BUT what if there is a small deviation on it and when you look for the target is not exact or at least not very close? is there any way to "align" it ? (I have the same mount and Ascom working ok) Thanks !!!
You should be able to use ctrl+3 and then align your scope. For some reason however, I never got this to work and if I want a perfect alignment I'm using platesolving in sequence generator Pro.
Thanks my fiend i will have a go... weather permitted !!! Clear nights amigo !!!
Thx wido 😊. before I want to use my EQ6 R PRI I am researching on the internet which program's I need to align my scope. There are so many. But with EQMOD and stellarium I can start with DSO?
Yes, sure. EQmod has been around for years but it never fails me :-). And stellarium is nice too as it has a virtual sky so you can directly select your target. Good luck.
@@AstroForumSpace wow and it keep tracking for astrofotografie
Great tutorial Wido. Question. How to minimize Stellarium once the software and the mount is pointing to the selected target, so other programs can be open? Thank you. Manuel.
Down in the bottom menu, press on the icon that shows 4 arrows pointing outward.
or alt+tab
Weird - I have the latest version of Stellarium and ASCOM is not an option in the list. Tried installing an earlier version and same thing. Any suggestions?
That's weird. In my version (0.20.2) it does show ASCOM as an option in scope control.
Hello - Thank you the video. I am very new to all of this - so I apologize for these questions. But isn't there some type of pre calibration that needs to happen? How is the telescope aligned so that it has a good starting reference? I am not sure if I am making sense . Do I just need to polar align it and that's all ? What are my initial settings ?
Thank you
In EQ mode, stellarium expects your telescope to be polar aligned - that's enough info for stellarium to point your telescope at the objects in the night sky. Polar aligning your mount will correct for the latitude position you're at, so the telescope can use RA and DEC coordinates to find your target. Note that with stellarium, and depending on the accuracy of your polar alignment, the DSO, planets, or Moon will be a bit off center sometimes. If that happens, you can move your telescope to center the object in your field of view, and then press "sync" so stellarium can adjust its position. Good luck!
@@AstroForumSpace thank you for the quick reply - it’s very much appreciated .
When I hear about “multi star alignment “ what are they referring to ?
It's a process on Celestron mounts if I'm correct, where you can improve the goto function of the mount by slewing to stars, then center that star in the FoV of your eyepiece or camera, and then confirm that position. It will inform the software and make small adjustments to perform a better slew to an object. Polar alignment is never perfect, so that's where the multistar procedure comes in...to finetune the position of the mount.
@@AstroForumSpace thank you again - and love your content on TH-cam .
Take care !
Nice video!
Do you need to do star aligment before you can slew to a object?
Hi Rick, no that's not necessary. After polar alignment you're good to go. Cheers.
@@AstroForumSpace
Would it be accurate enough to center planets in the FoV?
I followed the steps laid out here and in your other video with getting eqmod setup right, but Stellarium keeps the configure button under telescope control greyed out and I can't click it. Any ideas why? I am currently using eqmod in simulator mode as right now all I want to do is test things out and see if I can wrap my head around using all this software. Does it being in simulator mode change anything? I did make all your setup recommendations there instead of the actual eqmod setup, so that should be fine. I would've figured I could still hook up it to stellarium just to try it and see it all work. Otherwise I'm not sure what else is up.
Hi there, I'm not sure unfortunately... May be the simulation mode indeed. Perhaps you could try to setup your mount during the daytime, download and install the actual ascom driver you need for mount and then try it again?
@@AstroForumSpace Yeah I suspect having an actual mount connected would help. I don't have a mount right now to connect though, which is why I was using the simulation. I was just trying to learn how to use all of the software to see if it's something I could get along with and enjoy. I think I was still able to accomplish that. Thanks.
Ik wil graag een eerste telescoop kopen maar weet niet goed welke. Wat denk je van de celestron 127eq powerseeker?
Hoi Michiel, dit is een leuk beginners setje waarbij je al wat ervaring krijgt met het opbouwen van een equatoriale montering. Hij is niet echt geschikt om objecten in de verre ruimte te fotograferen, maar de maan en planeten zijn goed te doen. Succes met je keuze.
Thank you! How do you connect your mount to your PC?
You'll need to install the ascom driver for your mount, check: ascom-standards.org/Downloads/Index.htm
@@AstroForumSpace Yes but I mean physically how is your computer connected to your mount (what kind of cable or wifi)?
Can you please recommend a complete set up , telescope , go to mount for around 3500 USD can go with my Sony A7riv ?
Farid Abdin as a newbie myself, I can definitely recommend to research TH-cam for the most popular brands like Skywatcher and Celestron. The learning curve is significant and these 2 brands have lots of TH-cam Videos to guide you. HEQ-5 or 6 by skywatcher is the most popular in my opinion.
There are many choices to make...look, I can give you my opinion on it but I recommend to do your own research. I have a "getting started" section on my website: astroforumspace.com/category/getting_started_astrophotography/
I can give you a shopping list with ingredients... But I rather teach you how to cook mate :-).
Hello...Richard..Belgium...so then, you don't use "Stellarium Scope" before opening Stellarium..?
nope
@@AstroForumSpace Thank's...will have a try with your method...:-)....
Works...in fact I didn't update Stellarium for a while...didn't have the ascom option in the menu....Thank's for the video...:-)...top...
what laptop do you recommend to have please?
I have EQ-6Pro and Polemaster, but haven't started yet using them
Hello. Do you have any ideia if it will work with a NEQ3 Pro?
Does the NEQ3 have an ascom driver?
@@AstroForumSpace, I think it does. It uses eqmod. eq-mod.sourceforge.net/reqindex.html
My EQ3 pro from SW is ascom compatible and it works with variant programs though I never tied Stellarium jet... What's the difference between EQ3 pro and NEQ3 pro? Greetings Chris
@@ChrisSmith-lk2vq, I think they are the same.
Are you using wifi wido?
Hi Mack, I'm using teamviewer to connect to other computers within my home network.
Theres no EQMOD 5/6 in my drop down menu.
Strange, did you download the latest version?
@@AstroForumSpace Yes
Very strange, do you use a PC or w it windows based laptop? It should support ascom eqmod for heq5/6
@@AstroForumSpace Windows laptop. Connecting to EQM-35 mount with an EQ cable.
@@woldsweather Did you install an eqmod ascom driver?