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Setting up Sharpcap with Stellarium
Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2022 7:38 pm
by jeruss
Greetings, I need to know what mount option do I select under the hardware tab in order to get sharpcap plate solving to work with stellarium as my planetarium program. I have been using cpwi but it has a very limited database. Thanks.
Re: Setting up Sharpcap with Stellarium
Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2022 2:23 pm
by admin
Hi,
the way this would work is that you set up both SharpCap and Stellarium to talk to CPWI - they share access to the mount hardware via CPWI, and you can then use Stellarium to do things like find targets and slew to them and SharpCap to do plate solving.
cheers,
Robin
Re: Setting up Sharpcap with Stellarium
Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2022 3:11 pm
by jeruss
Thanks for the reply. Now I just need to figure out how to setup stellarium to talk to cpwi
Re: Setting up Sharpcap with Stellarium
Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2022 4:06 pm
by admin
Hi,
modern versions of Stellarium come with a pre-installed 'Telescope Control' plugin - bring up the configuration window (F2), selec 'Plug Ins', scroll down to Telescope Control and click 'Configure' to get started setting it up to talk to CPWI.
cheers,
Robin
Re: Setting up Sharpcap with Stellarium
Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2022 4:12 pm
by jeruss
Thanks so much for this info. I will try this.
Re: Setting up Sharpcap with Stellarium
Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2022 11:02 pm
by abillionnewstars
Sorry for coming late to this discussion but what is "CPWI" ??
Re: Setting up Sharpcap with Stellarium
Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2022 12:14 am
by MarMax
Re: Setting up Sharpcap with Stellarium
Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2022 1:34 pm
by jidon
Thank you MarMax for sharing the link. I would also like to set up Sharpcap with Stellarium, so I will need that.
Re: Setting up Sharpcap with Stellarium
Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2024 8:25 am
by OAVP6554084@
Hello All
Just walking around looking for information about how to interact Sharcap 4.1 with a Planetarium Software, I found this interesting search result.
I read here: "the way this would work is that you set up both SharpCap and Stellarium to talk to CPWI - they share access to the mount hardware via CPWI, and you can then use Stellarium to do things like find targets and slew to them and SharpCap to do plate solving."
Would it work if I do the same setup with my Planetarium Software "Starry Night 8" ?
Thanks
Looking forward to hearing from you
Orlando
Re: Setting up Sharpcap with Stellarium
Posted: Sun Feb 25, 2024 2:43 pm
by kaymann
OAVP6554084@ wrote: Sun Feb 25, 2024 8:25 am
Hello All
Just walking around looking for information about how to interact Sharcap 4.1 with a Planetarium Software, I found this interesting search result.
I read here: "the way this would work is that you set up both SharpCap and Stellarium to talk to CPWI - they share access to the mount hardware via CPWI, and you can then use Stellarium to do things like find targets and slew to them and SharpCap to do plate solving."
Would it work if I do the same setup with my Planetarium Software "Starry Night 8" ?
Thanks
Looking forward to hearing from you
Orlando
Yes