Hello, I am noticing a problem with my IEXOS 100 when i try to connect by ASCOM. I made everything i can see in this video many times ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_gYiJnEU38&t=698s) , and i trie

Before quitting this group, I want to make a recommendation: change your forum software. There are another far better options like https://www.discourse.org/ https://www.tapatalk.com Etc This groups.i

I wanted to share my thoughts and experience with the iEXOS-100, and provide a little feedback as well to ES. So I have to start first with my "I Thought Turkeys Could Fly" moment. As the first stars

Hello everyone - first post here so apologies for any naivety or stupidity on my part! Just bought an iexos-100 as my entry into the world of astrophotography and in the few days I've had it I'm very

Hello All, I've received my iXOS-100 yesterday (yippee) installed the Explore Stars App on iOS (iPad), I can connect to the mount and slew to objects from catalogue but couldn't manually slew the moun

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

Hi Jerry/Kent, What is the possibility for adding smart phone compatibility to the Explorestars system in the near future? Alternatively, are there plans to allow other providers to develop compatibil

I hav downloaded all of the latest Ascom ans ES software but I get the error below when trying to connect to my ezos2. This just started happening recently as I was using it a couple weeks ago and it

Hi guys, any ideas why the mount should all of a sudden shift whilst tracking, I was photographing for almost an hour when the mount decided to move, not much, but enough to move the target totally ou

Hi Guys, Went to a dark site over the weekend, got lucky and got a little bit of data of M27, not processed alot, just stacked in Siril, no darks flats etc, and level adjustment in GIMP. Thanks Shaile

Rodrigo Zelada from Chile wrote me recently telling me about his customer's experience using ExploreStars to navigate to Jupiter and Saturn. It is important to know that he is in the southern hemisphe

Here is a single unfiltered 2 minute exposure of Bode's Nebula. -- Michael Anderson: Earthling Handle: MrThump30 Home World: Planet Earth Scope: ES Comet Hunter Mak-Newt 152mm F4.8 Mount: Celestron AV

A question has come up about how many people are using a Raspberry Pi to run the PMC-Eight system. If you are using, have used, or try to use this cool little computer, please weigh-in and let us know

I decided last week to try to photograph Pluto since it was the only "planet" that I hadn't photographed yet with my EXOS-2. So I used my plate solver to aim my ES 102CF and took about 40 - 1 minute e

I have ascom 6.5 installed. When selecting the PMC-8 driver directly in Astrophotography Tool the slew controls work as expected. If I choose Device Hub Telescope, AST can connect, park, unpark, but t

I ran across this post on CloudyNights about the standard discussion about "How can I get into Astrophotography for < $1500? " I thought I would share the link to it so that if you are interested, you

CAUTION: The following information is provided for information only, use at your own risk. Explore Scientific supports the OpenGOTO Community in making the most use of their PMC-Eight system including

During yesterdays podcast, Jerry mentioned that Comet Neowise would be near M53 last night and asked people to supply pictures. I'll attach my attempt from our Bortle 5 skies. It was very cloudy but w

The Explore Alliance Virtual Star Party with David H. Levy Here is information about tonight’s virtual Star Party Live Astrophotograhy and Talks Tonight August 11th Starting at 9:30 p.m. Central ‌ ‌ ‌

Shailendra, With an EXOS2, you're not going to be able to get a perfect DEC balance, and you probably don't want that anyway. If you could achieve a perfect DEC balance, and then you pointed near-vert