However after the second Stellarium restart (and mount reconnect), things got back in synch. Tried rebooting the mount and restarting Stellarium, but no luck. After reconnecting, Stellarium now shows the mount is pointing at -50deg DEC. After that reboot, it took me quite a while to get reconnected to the mount (had to close all the apps, disconnect the serial cable, and reboot the PMC-8 again and reconnect the cable, then restart the apps). So I decided to park the mount and reboot the PMC-8 controller. This did not make sense to me since I thought the coordinates reported by Stellarium should be coming from the mount. I was a bit surprised that the EXOS2 reticle did not land precisely on the correct coordinates in Stellarium (off by just a few minutes), so I checked the reported coordinates in Stellarium vs what it said on ES and they were different by up to several minutes. Stellarium tracked that movement, so I just used ES to slew to some other locations. To my surprise, when I opened ExploreStars, it took over control of the mount and slewed it back to the home position. Then for fun, I took advantage of the new firmware features and used my iPad to control the mount. The EXOS2 reticle showed up on sky and I was able to slew the mount by using the Stellarium commands. I thought I had read that you had to use POTH with ASCOM, but on a hunch, I closed POTH and now I was able to control the mount with Stellarium.
After setting up the driver, I was able to connect to the mount with POTH, but Stellarium would not connect to the mount while POTH was running. So after installing the new firmware, driver, and ASCOM 6.5, I tried once again. I also have a new laptop with very little software on it, so a decent platform for a new install (using Windows 10 Pro).
With the release of the new firmware and driver, I thought I'd give it another go. Only caveat, Stellarium will run slower, not really noticeable on fast computers, but may be unusable on an older system.I have been trying (for several months off an on) to get Stellarium to control my EXOS2 reliably. If you have no idea what any of that means, don’t worry!Īs an alternative, if Stellarium 0.15.1 is still installed there is a way to run it letting the CPU handle most of the graphics processing, this allows the latest version to run on computers with older/problematic graphics cards. Hmm, seems above ppa has been updated, and now incorrectly points to Stellarium 0.14.3 (instead of 0.12.8) for Ubuntu 16.04 based versions. Sudo add-apt-repository ppa:alexwolf/stellarium-12-releases Open Terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T), copy & paste the following Rather than compiling, there is also a handy ppa (easily install latest 0.12.8 version (released 2 days ago) designed for older graphics cards)
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