Telescope Control through Stellarium and SynScan hand controller

Just a quick look at the connections for controlling a telescope through the Stellarium app running on a lap top and with the SynScan hand controller.

[@thomasmartinez6573]

Hi, Can you tell me how you configure the Az Mount to Stellarium.

[@noskanow]

Hello. Go to the control panel on the left side of Stellarium, click on the spanner to launch the configuration window. Then click on Plug Ins and scroll right down to the bottom of the plug ins list and click on telescope control. Then click on configure in that window to launch the telescope configuration window. Click on the spanner in that window to launch the telescope information window, scroll down and enter your telescope details. If your AZ Gti is like mine and has a USB connector you can ignore the COM1 setting here. Now just connect the mount to the USB port on your computer, (via the hand controller in my case as you see in the video), select a target and click on the slew telescope icon on the bottom control panel or Ctrl+0 When the telescope is on the taget you can then got to the top right control panel and click on your telescope/eyepiece/camera and see on the stellarium screen what you would see in practice. Hope this helps.

[@WRX2001]

can you control the mount via WIFI ????

[@noskanow]

Yes it is a WiFi mount controlled by the SynScan App downloaded onto your mobile device. The mount generates its own WiFi signal which you select as the WiFi connection on your mobile device by going Settings>Connections>WiFi and then selecting the mount's signal. The SynScan App on your mobile device can then communicate with the mount and control it.