All - If you have any interest in using SkySafari to control the PMC-8 (without a workaround like Wifi Scope), speak your mind on their support forums... Even if you don't have any interest, speak you

Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the ESPMC-Eight group. File : /User Contributions/PHD2_GuideLog_2018-06-18_221720.txt Upl

Celestron's competing CGX mount eschews a polar scope in favor of their much-touted, "exclusive" All Star Polar Alignment https://www.celestron.com/pages/all-star-polar-alignment Celestron certainly d

Not sure if I have the steps correct and in the right order setting up the ESPMC 8 and Losmandy ES G-11 mount. Feedback welcome! Set up/balance tripod-one leg towards true north Install RA & DEC units

If you have not already, please take the OS poll I put up a little while ago. It really does influence how I write my next tools/utilities. https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/ESPMC-Eight/polls/poll/1

Hello everyone, I'm new to the forum, to astronomy and to the exos2gt w/pmc-8. I've had the scope out twice and while tracking Jupiter, the scope hit the bottom when it passed from east to west. I'm a

Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the ESPMC-Eight group: I am thinking about moving this group to Groups.io. What do you think about that? Joining Groups.io is as simple as signin

I have added a new section to the PMC-Eight Knowledge Base called "PMC-Eight TIPS" . I added the first article "TIP - Save time when restarting your PMC-Eight Controller". Check it out! http://hosted.

Hi Everyone, I have uploaded a program to the files section. It is a program that allows you to switch the PMC-8 controller between wifi and serial, and to send commands to the PMC-8. It allows you to

Hi, I didn't really follow the earlier discussion about the spring-loaded worm gears to closely, but I just noticed that they seem to be available from Losmandy: https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/619

Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the ESPMC-Eight group. File : /ES_PMC8 ASCOM Driver Setup_2018_06_28.zip Uploaded by : hu

I'm a newbie and need some clarification. I'm using the Explore Stars app on exos2gt w/pmc-8. How does the Park position work in Explore Stars. 1) Does the program automatically know where the park po

Jerry, Thank you for this! Not that I'm ready for guiding yet, but the back-and-forth between you and the more advanced users really is an education. Re: RA offset calculation, and what to do about it

Jerry, I just installed this driver (Win7 Pro 64). I did not do a Windows deinstall, just renamed the April .dll and ran ES_PMC8_Setup.exe, as given. The installer completed successfully, the new .dll

ATTENTION: UPDATED PMC-EIGHT ASCOM DRIVER 2018-06-28 RELEASE Thanks to the questioning attitude of G11 PMC-Eight customer Mark Blair and the attention to detail, he discovered an "undocumented feature

Here are a few images of Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn taken over the past couple of days at the Mark Slade Remote Observatory (www.raclub.org/MSRO/). Our observatory is equipped with the Losmandy/ES G11

Jerry, Just wondering when and where that Rate Offset parameter is applied? Does the same tracking rate adjustment really apply equally to all of: Sidereal, Lunar, Solar and King rates? When you chang

Jerry, In your KB article on calculating the rate offset parameter, you mention tracking differences due to refractive error. While framing my other ROP question, I looked up the King rate, as I'd for

Hi Jerry and All, I was going to try that utility that Chris Moses wrote for switching the PMC-Eight between wired and wireless mode, but I just discovered that my antenna has broken at the connector.

ASCOM Platform 6.4 Released! The new version of the ASCOM Platform has been released. Version 6.4 is available here for download: http://www.ascom-standards.org/index.htm On the initial installation I