Hi Marcin, You can find help about the ASCOM Platform and applications (such as Device Hub) on the ASCOM Platform Help Groups.io forum Help@ASCOMTalk.groups.io | Home They are a great resource for eve

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There are 206265 arc-seconds per radian so the formula is the conversion between an angular value to a linear scale at the image plane. The value is 206.3 (rounded 206.265) because of the FL being in

#EXOS2 #astrophotography

Hi Walter, Yes, I would suggest a 2x Barlow or tele-extender instead of a 3x. The formula for pixel or plate scale is: Pixel Scale = (Pixel Size x 206.3) / FL, So for your combination: Pixel Scale = (

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Hi Doug, That would work if you get get the camera to the focus position with the Barlow or tele-extender. I would suggest trying it at 2x instead of 3x.

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Hi Walter, I am just starting to look at your guide log, but I did notice that your guide camera (an Orion Starshoot Autoguider) with a 5.8 um pixel coupled with your very short focal length guide sco

#EXOS2 #astrophotography

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 a

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 i

Hi Wes, Timothy, Nope, not a community project, this is an ES project for our customers, dealers, and customer support group. This won't take years, the level of material is not that deep. It is meant

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I have locked this thread. Please move this discussion to the PMC-Eight Applications subgroup. All the other groups are for PMC-Eight discussions only. See item 8 in the Forum Terms of Service. https:

#iEXOS-100 #polaralignment #alignment #Off-Topic

Hi David, Welcome to the forum. I don't believe I ever said the EXOS 2 PMC-Eight was going to be phased out, in fact we have plans to continue to sell that model. We are planning to release a new moun

If you want to use a gamepad with the ASCOM driver, use ASCOMPAD. People get confused because this is an EQMOD project but ASCOMPAD works with any ASCOM mount. If you search this forum for ASCOMPAD yo

#iEXOS-100 #app

A thread on focusers should be started in the PMC-Eight Application subgroup, not in any of the PMC-Eight subgroups or MAIN.

#astrophotography #Off-Topic

For further discussion of this project, please start a new thread on the PMC-Eight Applications subgroup. Thanks

#iEXOS-100 #Off-Topic

Thanks Ian for your fine image. I will merge this thread with the main astrophotography thread that we use to show what these mounts can do.

#G11 #astrophotography #iEXOS-100 #EXOS2

This topic belongs in the PMC-Eight Applications subgroup not in the Main forum. Please continue your conversation there. Thank you.

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HI Don, Thank you very much for you purchase and you patience in receiving it. I am sorry you have this adjustment issue. Here is a video that our Director of Quality Control made to show customers ho

#iEXOS-100 #VIDEO

FYI – New ASCOM Platform Service Pack. This contains fixes for the Device Hub application. See message below from ASCOM platform developer Peter. Jerry Hubbell Vice President Engineering ExploreScient

Hi combatsniper, The ExploreStars application provides a 2-star or 3-star "virtual alignment" function which is an "all-sky" type of alignment using the stars of your choice. There are also plenty of

Here is a link to a message from last year where I speculate on the weight capacity for the iEXOS 100 mount using the larger tripods. I imagine a lot of members that have joined since then have not se

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Hi Karol, Please provide a link to the movie stored in your cloud storage or other web site as this file is very large at 15Mb and uses a significant portion of our limited overall storage limit of 1G

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