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Re: Astrophotography Done with the iEXOS-100, EXOS 2, and G11 Post your Pictures and Details! Lets Show What These Mounts Can Do.
#G11
#astrophotography
#iEXOS-100
#EXOS2
Wes Mcdonald
Jennifer
Amazing. Absolutely amazing.
-- Wes, Southport NC EXos2-GT PMC-8, iExos 100 ES ED 127, 10" LX200GPS+wedge, Astro-Tech 8" Newt, ETX-90, 60mm no-name guide scope ~ 260mm FL Polemaster, Orion ST-80 and SAG, ZWO 290MM, D5300 astro modified Nina, Bootcamped Mac Mini control computer, RDP to iMAC 110 amp hour lead acid deep discharge battery for field power Electrical Engineer, Retired
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Re: Astrophotography Done with the iEXOS-100, EXOS 2, and G11 Post your Pictures and Details! Lets Show What These Mounts Can Do.
#G11
#astrophotography
#iEXOS-100
#EXOS2
6 hours of narrow band data for the Rosette Nebula from my Askar FRA 400, QHY 600M, QHY CFW3-L, Baader NB filters, Baader SD II, and ES iEXOS PMC-8 mount.
 -- Sincerely, Jennifer Shelly AstroPorch, VA Mounts: ES PMC-8 G-11, ES PMC-8 iEXOS-100 Scopes: ES ED127 FCD-100, Askar FRA 400, ES Levy Comet Hunter, ES N208CF, QHY Mini Guide Scope, Solomark F60 Guide Scope Cameras: QHY600M, QHY128C, QHY168C Misc: MoonLite CFL 2.5 / High Res Stepper / V2 Mini Controller, Baader SteelTrack NT / SteelDrive II, Baader UFC, Optolong 2" L-Pro / L-eNhance, QHY CFW3-L, Baader 2” LRGBSHO CCD Imaging Software: NINA, APT, SharpCap Pro Processing Software: PixInsight, Lightroom, Premiere Elements
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Re: Astrophotography Done with the iEXOS-100, EXOS 2, and G11 Post your Pictures and Details! Lets Show What These Mounts Can Do.
#G11
#astrophotography
#iEXOS-100
#EXOS2
Terry
First test of my new mount went OK, despite the nearly full Moon flooding the sky with too much light to record faint objects, the tracking was working well as were the star mapping and goto commands, not worth publishing the other pics of fainter nebulae and star clusters but here's a good old favourite, The Great Nebula in Orion, nothing fancy, no stacking just two shots, one for the very bright star factory core and the other for the fainter nebulosity
Both at ISO-800 one at 2 minutes the other at 20 seconds
Fujifilm X-T2, Sigma 150-600mm at 600mm F/6.3 on EXOS 2 PMC-Eight mount
It was really just a dry run of polar alignment and star alignment followed by goto tests and I'm pleased to say that the goto's got the targets in the frame at 600mm on an APSC camera every time, not perfect centre but good enough to see, M33, NGC864/9, M34, M41 and of course M42
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Re: Connection issue
#iEXOS-100
#ASCOM
Daniel Burdziak
I connect to the PMC-Eight “WiFi” on the laptop, and then for POTH I select POTH Hub I believe. I can check for sure when I get back from the store.
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Re: Connection issue
#iEXOS-100
#ASCOM
Hey Daniel, what are the settings with in POTH? i just want to make sure your connected to the PMC-Eight.
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Re: Connection issue
#iEXOS-100
#ASCOM
Daniel Burdziak
Welp I was able to move everything from the old drive to the new drive.
Now I can connect with POTH, and APT connects, but the mount doesn’t make that noise it makes when you unpark it and you can tell it’s running. Also unable to move it with control buttons or goto.
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Re: Connection issue
#iEXOS-100
#ASCOM
Martin Eastburn
If you have the old drive I'd use it as well. Boot from it - likely
has drivers you don't have for that laptop.
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Run apps from the ssd. My suggestions. Martin
On 2/24/2021 5:07 PM, Daniel Burdziak
via groups.io wrote:
Luiz,
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Re: Connection issue
#iEXOS-100
#ASCOM
Daniel Burdziak
Luiz,
Thank you. I did find that page previously and followed everything to a T. I still cannot get the iexos-100 working again since swapping to an SSD from a regular hard drive.
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Re: Unable to connect wifi or serial to Windows 10 laptop
Dallin
Thank you to those who helped with my WIFI connection issue. It turns out my computer was affected by the windows 10 connection issue. I am running Windows 10 Home version 1909. OS build 18363.1379. The fix from ES in the link below resolves my WIFI connection issue.
https://explorescientificusa.com/pages/windows-10-network-issue-with-exos-2-g11-pmc-eight cheers, -- Dallin McLaws Location: Vail, AZ Mounts: ES PMC-Eight EXOSII Scopes: Omegon 110 F6 FPL-53 ED APO CF Cameras: Nikon D850 Operating System: Dell XPS Windows10 / Ipad Mini Software: ExploreStars
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Re: #iEXOS-100 in Stellarium always complaining about the mount being parked
#iEXOS-100
alandebrut
Thank you,
Unparking in the device hub and then ticking the tracking box did the trick, I spent sometime trying to figure this out, so once again thank you. Regards -- Explore Scientific: Telescope AR102, F6.5 Exos 2, PMC8 QHY PoleMaster ZWO Electronic Auto-focuser Altair 290C Celestron SE8 plus mount Starsense Sharpcap Pro CDC Stellarium APT Firecapture Canon 80D
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Wes Mcdonald
Lukas. Delete the configuration manager and reload it. Delete every file in the directory . Maybe the propellant program it loads is borked. The hardware is not broken I think we know that.
Wes -- Wes, Southport NC EXos2-GT PMC-8, iExos 100 ES ED 127, 10" LX200GPS+wedge, Astro-Tech 8" Newt, ETX-90, 60mm no-name guide scope ~ 260mm FL Polemaster, Orion ST-80 and SAG, ZWO 290MM, D5300 astro modified Nina, Bootcamped Mac Mini control computer, RDP to iMAC 110 amp hour lead acid deep discharge battery for field power Electrical Engineer, Retired
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LuckyDuck
Hi Wes,
the device shows up in the device manager. There I set the correct baud rate. There are many more options/values to set, but I didn't touch them. Lukas -- _______________________________________________________________ Mounts: ES PMC-8 EXOS-2 Scopes: ES AR152 refractor, Tamron zoom-lens 70-300 mm Cameras: Sony a6000 Msc: none Software: Siril, Affinity Photo, Sony Remote Control
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Wes Mcdonald
Lukas
After inserting the ftdi usb to serial pull up the de ice manager and make sure it shows the ftdi. Heck I don’t know what is happening so long as you can control the mount via serial none of this makes any sense. Wes -- Wes, Southport NC EXos2-GT PMC-8, iExos 100 ES ED 127, 10" LX200GPS+wedge, Astro-Tech 8" Newt, ETX-90, 60mm no-name guide scope ~ 260mm FL Polemaster, Orion ST-80 and SAG, ZWO 290MM, D5300 astro modified Nina, Bootcamped Mac Mini control computer, RDP to iMAC 110 amp hour lead acid deep discharge battery for field power Electrical Engineer, Retired
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LuckyDuck
Hi Wes,
thanks for your replies. So far I am still not lucky: 4 ERR:303-No serial ports found.
3 Path to EEPROM: "C:\Users\AstroLuke\Documents\PMC8Firmware\9t_17a_EXOS2.eeprom"
2 Path to Propellent.exe:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Explore Scientific Utilities\PMC-8 Configuration Manager 1.0.3\Propellent.exe "
1 Attempting to upload ROM
0 Mount appears to be connected on Serial
-- I'm already using v1.03 of the configuration manager. I tried rebooting PC aswell as PMC eigth and reconnected the serial cables as suggested. In general the connection via serial works great, no problems when connecting and driving the mount. In the configuration manager on tab "connection" is a button "Find" next to COM Ports. If I press it, it says no com-ports found. But on the other hand it directly shows the correct com-port in this drop down window. I only have that one com port. it is COM3. If I plug the usb-serial cable in a different usb port it switches to COM4 or COM5. The configuration manager shows the correct com-port every time, but at the same time it complains, that it can't find any com-port. I am confused... Thanks, Lukas _______________________________________________________________ Mounts: ES PMC-8 EXOS-2 Scopes: ES AR152 refractor, Tamron zoom-lens 70-300 mm Cameras: Sony a6000 Msc: none Software: Siril, Affinity Photo, Sony Remote Control
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Re: #iEXOS-100 in Stellarium always complaining about the mount being parked
#iEXOS-100
Worked a treat. Been trying to get to work for a long time. Had work arounds using stellarium scope, or installing POTH and even got it woring with Device Hub and Cartes du Ciel, but never with Stellarium. One little click in the tracking box in Device Hub and it worked like a gud 'un. Many thanks.
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Wes Mcdonald
Lukas
What version of the configuration manager are you using? I don’t recognize two of the messages. Try loading version 103 from Es web page and use that. Wes -- Wes, Southport NC EXos2-GT PMC-8, iExos 100 ES ED 127, 10" LX200GPS+wedge, Astro-Tech 8" Newt, ETX-90, 60mm no-name guide scope ~ 260mm FL Polemaster, Orion ST-80 and SAG, ZWO 290MM, D5300 astro modified Nina, Bootcamped Mac Mini control computer, RDP to iMAC 110 amp hour lead acid deep discharge battery for field power Electrical Engineer, Retired
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Wes Mcdonald
Lukas
So I gave this a go. No issues Your messages up until you get the no serial port message are correct. If you have no cable you get a different error message. Thus the computer found your usb to serial converter. I see you were connected to serial using 9t11. All was well. Try power cycling the pmc8. This seems to be indicating the serial port is broke. Maybe your db9 connection is no good. Unplug it and replug it. Something simple maybe. Wes -- Wes, Southport NC EXos2-GT PMC-8, iExos 100 ES ED 127, 10" LX200GPS+wedge, Astro-Tech 8" Newt, ETX-90, 60mm no-name guide scope ~ 260mm FL Polemaster, Orion ST-80 and SAG, ZWO 290MM, D5300 astro modified Nina, Bootcamped Mac Mini control computer, RDP to iMAC 110 amp hour lead acid deep discharge battery for field power Electrical Engineer, Retired
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Re: ASIAIR PRO with PMC8-G11 review / first light...or night that is...
Wes Mcdonald
Alan
The applications subgroup has many posts in using the asi air. Also there is a document in the files section there i believe that will help you out Please ask asi air questions in that subgroup Wes -- Wes, Southport NC EXos2-GT PMC-8, iExos 100 ES ED 127, 10" LX200GPS+wedge, Astro-Tech 8" Newt, ETX-90, 60mm no-name guide scope ~ 260mm FL Polemaster, Orion ST-80 and SAG, ZWO 290MM, D5300 astro modified Nina, Bootcamped Mac Mini control computer, RDP to iMAC 110 amp hour lead acid deep discharge battery for field power Electrical Engineer, Retired
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Re: ASIAIR PRO with PMC8-G11 review / first light...or night that is...
alandebrut
Hi,
Thanks for this info, however I have an ASIair pro on order and now I am really nervous as I am not computer savvy. How do you reprogram the FTDI cable? Is this done through Windows? With a special programme? I have no idea :( Many thanks Alan -- Explore Scientific: Telescope AR102, F6.5 Exos 2, PMC8 QHY PoleMaster ZWO Electronic Auto-focuser Altair 290C Celestron SE8 plus mount Starsense Sharpcap Pro CDC Stellarium APT Firecapture Canon 80D
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LuckyDuck
Hi everybody,
I want to update the Firmware on my mount. It is connected to serial and I am using it that way for some time now. If I get it right the current Firmware version is 9T_11 13 Received: ESGvES6B09T11!
12 Sending via Serial: ESGv!
-- So I downloaded the latest firmware, selected 9t_17a_EXOS2.eeprom in the firmware tab, but I get the following error in the command line: 38 ERR:303-No serial ports found.
37 Path to EEPROM: "C:\Users\AstroLuke\Documents\PMC8Firmware\9t_17a_EXOS2.eeprom"
36 Path to Propellent.exe:"C:\Program Files (x86)\Explore Scientific Utilities\PMC-8 Configuration Manager 1.0.3\Propellent.exe "
35 Attempting to upload ROM: 9t_17a_EXOS2.eeprom
34 Mount appears to be connected on Serial
33 EsMountManager: Verified - Serial Connection
32 EsMountManager: Try to Verify - Serial Connection
Any ideas? Thanks! Lukas _______________________________________________________________ Mounts: ES PMC-8 EXOS-2 Scopes: ES AR152 refractor, Tamron zoom-lens 70-300 mm Cameras: Sony a6000 Msc: none Software: Siril, Affinity Photo, Sony Remote Control
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