Great news, I'll try it tonight then, Thank you Mirko! Paul -- Location: southern Spain Equipment: Explore Scientific EOS-2 PMC-Eight mount Skywatcher 200DPS Newtonian telescope Nikon D5200

Hi Paul, your second question: I have an iEXOS 100 and an Exos2-PMC8. The iEXOS needs one more step (switching from UDP to TCP). For me it works with CoolTerm for both mounts… I tried it with my Mac

Rix, Adding my voice to the chorus about the criticality of balance. An 80 mm refractor + iExos100 is my littlest. I thought that because it is so little, the motor would overpower minute weight

Rix: IF your are tracking the explorestars display might flip back a forth 1 arc second. What you have to watch out for is the RA changing every second in a consistent way increasing or decreasing.

Rix, This was specifically about what you should expect when turning the gears by hand, during adjustment - and that illustrating one of the reasons why balance is important during a session (whether

This is also good to know.. however it is clear that RA motion is not actually occurring as the explorestars app reads the RA as changing back and forth rapidly by 1 arcsecond or so, never actually

Rix, Had/have exactly the same issue. Went through a very similar series of troubleshooting, including a similar post on this forum. Came up with two key bits of useful information. 1. You absolutely

Rix, Assuming that you have a decent gear mesh, do not be surprised if the gears are quiet and smooth when LIFTING weight as you turn by hand, yet chatter when LOWERING it. When lowering, the worm

Very good to know, Rob. I will look into it. Wondering if anyone else has had the same issue, or if there are good resources as to what the gears should feel/sound like when turned by hand to test.

Rix, Can't speak to your iExos-100 problem specifically (cos' I don't have one), but as to WD-40 as a gear lube... No..no..no.... It's good for lots of things (just like duct tape), but a grease

Got a used iEXOS-100 and was finally able to diagnose my issue: it seems that the RA motor, in particular, is struggling to move the mount. When connected to the app and tracking, the motors can be

Hi Everyone, First just a big thank you to all he experts here for helping beginners such as myself get started. It would be so much harder without you! Ok, so since I last posted on this thread

Good Configuration! Some parts can be used for many other programas for work with POTH.

I believe I have found a way to configure the ASCOM Device Hub 65 to use an Xbox Game Controller. Frist update to Service Pack 1 (SP1). Ensure you include the POTH Hub option. See Peter Simpson’s

Hi Larry, The problem is probably related to the fact that ASCOMPAD is a very old program that is only useable with the POTH because of changes made to create the Device Hub. I would post a question

Jerry, It is my understanding that the new ASCOM DeviceHub65 does away for the need to use POTH. In fact I don’t see it anymore. While installing ASCOM DH I installed the updated driver from ES

This is an old message for a previous version of the ASCOM driver. The current ASCOM driver available on the Explore Scientific website has this fix already in it. This message has some good info in

After letting them dry out a while, everything is looking good except the OTA, it has water sitting in it. -- Mount: ES PMC-8 EXOS2 Telescope: Celestron C6-A XLT Main Camera: Canon SL2(200D)

Larry, look here: https://espmc-eight.groups.io/g/MAIN/topic/24822394?p=,,,20,0,0,0::relevance,,ASCOMPAD,20,2,0,24822394,ct=1&ct=1 I couldn't use the ASCOMPAD with device Hub, but only with POTH. If

After watching several Bob Denny videos I made the upgrade to ASCOM Device Hub 65. In doing so I’ve lost the ability to use my Xbox game controller. I like being able to make minor adjustments