Greeting all! I had a chance to spend some time with Scott and Greg at the Peach State Star Gaze and used the G-11 PMC 8 over the course of a couple of nights and enjoyed it thoroughly! I am consideri

Hi Jerry - To date, I've just relied on the mount's hand controller, along with connectivity via ASCOM to control the mount for framing and focusing once an alignment has been performed. I haven't use

Hi Jerry - Question regarding Explore Stars.... Is there a place where I can download the application, outside of the Windows App Store? When attempting to import the Celestial Database, I found that

To add more info to this, I have the Images folder, as well as the ExploreStars.txt, ExploreStars-Bright.txt, ExploreStars-Stars.txt files copied to the Pictures folder. I tried installing this on my

The link to download the instruction manual is broken. At the bottom left of the Explore Scientific PMC-8 landing page: http://www.explorescientific.com/pmc-eight/ "Instruction Manual" links to https:

Found it... https://explorescientificusa.com/pages/explore-documents -Steve

I also tried to install on a Surface Pro 4 with the Fall Creator's update installed and was unable to import the celestial database. Question: I don't have the PMC-8 yet and am doing test installs on

I got it figured out. It was an issue on my end. On my desktop, I had the Pictures folder mapped to a drive other than C:, which the application doesn't seem to like. My guess is that it's hardcoded t

INDI server for Windows. http://www.cloudmakers.eu/windi/ INDI Clients http://indilib.org/about/clients.html -Steve

A couple of questions on the Explore Stars Android App... 1) For Jerry: Any thoughts on supported versions of the Android OS? The most current version in production, I believe, is Oreo. However, Googl

Hi Jerry - I'm looking forward to meeting you as well! I'm going to do my best to persuade you to come down to Georgia and talk to Charlie Elliott Astronomy about your experiences developing the PMC 8

Hi Mark / Jerry - I had my G-11 set up for the first time this weekend and noticed tracking problems. I worked through a few things related to my own misunderstandings and got the alignment process to

Hi Jerry - My DEC Direction and RA Direction question was referencing the "switches" in the Preferences pane. Any thoughts on what those do and under what circumstances they should be set to "on?" Scr

If you're going to be in the general vicinity of the Atlanta area next weekend, check out this astronomy club meeting. https://mailchi.mp/4bae8439b39a/astronomy-club-meeting-saturday-april-14-2018-600

Thanks, David. Through a good bit of experimenting, I introduced too many variables to be able to determine the cause of the tracking issues. As Jerry stated, the RA Direction and DEC Direction switch

All - I managed to lose one of the set screws from the DEC worm cover. I found a suitable replacement at Harbor Freight in their Storehouse Set Screw Assortment (1/8" - 40 x 3/16"). https://www.harbor

Hi Jerry - I'm working on putting together an application to generate files of celestial objects on demand for the Explore Stars app. The layout of the file being parsed is generally intuitive, but I

Hi David - By fresh batteries, I mean a fully charged deep cycle. Mine was about 6 years old, so I replaced it with an AGM deep cycle today. It’s a 60 amp hour battery, which should be enough capacity

Oops...forgot to attach an image of the power box...

Hi All - I saw one post with this error, but it was centered around WiFi problems. I have a known good FTDI USB to Serial adapter that successfully controls my Celestron mounts, although I don't think