When I set up outside, I was still on mains power (both the PMC-8 as the laptop). The laptop was correctly connected to the PMC-8 via WiFi. I even switched to my normal internet-wifi signal and back

Paul, Out of curiosity, when you tested indoors vs. outdoors, did you change from mains power to battery? I believe Win10 has power management settings for the wifi adapter, and I seem to recall

Hi Paul, I would definitely go outside to confirm it's not working there. How it could be? What changes when you go outside? Does Laptop get connected to another wifi instead of PMC-Eight?. Different

Paul, Another option I used when I didn’t want to use my iPad, was an inexpensive Amazon Fire HD8. You need a micro SD card to separately load the ExploreStars database, but I had great luck with

Hi Jennifer, James, Yes, I think in order to send manual pulse guide commands, you may have to connect the camera, although I have not tried using the manual guide without the camera to see if that is

Paul please persevere with the mount and ExploreStars, it is a very good programme and once you get your head round it you will love it. Like any other programme or software to work to its full

Carried everything inside again, gave it one more try, and now it's connecting again :(. I'm not carrying it outside again to only find out it doesn't work outside. I'm using a Microsoft Surface

Paul, I can understand your frustration. My first few outings with the mount was challenging. It has a rather steep learning curve compared to my Celestron AVX mount. However, once you figure it out,

I carried all my stuff outside, hooked everything up, and now ExploreStars is stuck at Please Wait.. damn what a really bad program it is.. Last week I tried everything out inside the house, and it

Yeah, was a typo. Which interface are you using (iPad, Android, PC)? Are you sure your database is up to date? While there are some objects I couldn't find, I have found about 90-95% that I have

When I search for "heart" I get 9 objects, none of them "The heart nebula" so that is kinda useless.

I guess, you meant HIP #, but the ones I tried are not in the database. This application is not as handy as I thought :( It's frustration after frustration. When an object # is not found in the

The Heart Nebula resides within an open cluster. If you like, you can find a bright star in or near the nebula and use it's HIT # as a slew point. -- Mounts: Explore Scientific EXOS II GT, iEXOS-100,

Hi, My mistake, the longitude and latitude info was incorrect for my location :( Hence it didn't show the Slew To button. However, IC 1805 (the heart nebula according to Stellarium) returns the

I would certainly think you'd be fine opening the inspection door. Its a simple clip in piece of plastic, no tools necessary. You'll at least get a quick look inside. Once you have a

Use the search function in ExploreStars. -- Michael Whitaker Wakefield, UK. MOUNTS. Exos-2 PMC Eight.. SCOPE: RVO Horizon 72ed. CAMERA: Not Applicable. SOFTWARE: Just iPad at moment.

I know it's in there I as I got this a few weeks back... -- Mounts: Explore Scientific EXOS II GT, iEXOS-100, Celestron AVX Scope: Explore Scientific AR102, AR152, FirstLight 152mm Mak-Cassegrain,

You can search by the NGC #. In the case of the Heart Nebula, it would be NGC 1795 or you can try IC 1805. Most objects in the sky have different identifiers. Some objects will also come up if you

Hi, Can someone explain to me how to find and use non-messier objects in the ExploreStars application ? I can't find a way to, for instance, find the Heart nebula and slew to it.. I thought this app

-- Mounts: Explore Scientific EXOS II GT, iEXOS-100, Celestron AVX Scope: Explore Scientific AR102, AR152, FirstLight 152mm Mak-Cassegrain, SpaceCat 51 Guide Scope: Astromania 50mm Guidescope (190mm