Celestron Focuser and Sharcap
Posted: Mon Aug 05, 2019 12:30 pm
Hello there.. Been enjoying this hobby using a DSLR and recently made the decision to go the next step and started using a dedicated Astronomy camera. Well everyone told me that this was going to be a great move and wouldn't regret it! Sadly so far this has not been the case! Between bad weather, freezing nights and the Moon, something seems to always impede my progress. The latest problem seems to be when I connect SharpCap to my gear and try to use the Celestron Focuser.
There are two main problems..
Focuser controls seem to only allow the stepper motor to go in one direction and it simply refuses to allow me to control the number of steps or the direction, regardless on whether I tick the box to tell it to reverse the motor. Oh and the Focuser is not connected by USB.
If this wasn't bad enough when I go to try and use the Focuser with the hand control I find the Celestron CGX mount is unresponsive and no matter what I do to try and recover I'm forced to shut it down which then results in having to realign the mount again.
The first few times this happened I thought it was simply something I was doing wrong and with other small issues always popping up this seemed to be just another to add to the list! The Log files are more than likely useless due to the fact that when this happens I exit SharpCap several times trying different approaches to focus the target so that I can try to begin imaging, but so far I've had no luck..
Any suggestions would be great
There are two main problems..
Focuser controls seem to only allow the stepper motor to go in one direction and it simply refuses to allow me to control the number of steps or the direction, regardless on whether I tick the box to tell it to reverse the motor. Oh and the Focuser is not connected by USB.
If this wasn't bad enough when I go to try and use the Focuser with the hand control I find the Celestron CGX mount is unresponsive and no matter what I do to try and recover I'm forced to shut it down which then results in having to realign the mount again.
The first few times this happened I thought it was simply something I was doing wrong and with other small issues always popping up this seemed to be just another to add to the list! The Log files are more than likely useless due to the fact that when this happens I exit SharpCap several times trying different approaches to focus the target so that I can try to begin imaging, but so far I've had no luck..
Any suggestions would be great