Under ‘Device settings’ you then need to tell Stellarium what and where the serial port is. Under the heading ‘Telescope Properties’ give the telescope a name (I chose NEQ6 as this is the make of mount I want to control.) Everything else under this tab can be left as default.ģ. Under the heading ‘Telescope controlled by:’ click the radio button next to ‘Stellarium, directly through a serial port’ Ģ. Once in here there are a few settings that need to be sorted out:ġ. This is done by pressing ‘cmd+0’ and then clicking on ‘configure telescopes’.Ĭlick ‘add’ which will take you into the ‘Add New Telescope’ dialogue box. The first thing to do is to start Stellarium and set up a new telescope connection. This driver seems to be the best one around for controlling USB to Serial adapters. So for reference and for anyone else who wants to know how this is achieved below are the steps taken.įirstly I am using a generic USB to Serial adapter (brought from Maplins) with a drive downloaded from Prolific ( Welcome to ) - PL2303 Driver for Mac. Today I have been able to try the suggestion out, which, was pretty straight forward. After several hours of not getting anywhere and some serious frustration I posted a question on the Stellarium launchpad which was eventually answered this week. The background - I tried several weeks ago to control my mount through Stellarium with my Macbook Pro. Maybe it could be made a sticky if the mods / other members feel its worth it. Hopefully this will be useful to others here on the forum.
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