


Tried rebooting the mount and restarting Stellarium, but no luck. After reconnecting, Stellarium now shows the mount is pointing at -50deg DEC. After that reboot, it took me quite a while to get reconnected to the mount (had to close all the apps, disconnect the serial cable, and reboot the PMC-8 again and reconnect the cable, then restart the apps). So I decided to park the mount and reboot the PMC-8 controller. This did not make sense to me since I thought the coordinates reported by Stellarium should be coming from the mount. I was a bit surprised that the EXOS2 reticle did not land precisely on the correct coordinates in Stellarium (off by just a few minutes), so I checked the reported coordinates in Stellarium vs what it said on ES and they were different by up to several minutes. Stellarium tracked that movement, so I just used ES to slew to some other locations. To my surprise, when I opened ExploreStars, it took over control of the mount and slewed it back to the home position. Then for fun, I took advantage of the new firmware features and used my iPad to control the mount. The EXOS2 reticle showed up on sky and I was able to slew the mount by using the Stellarium commands. I thought I had read that you had to use POTH with ASCOM, but on a hunch, I closed POTH and now I was able to control the mount with Stellarium. After setting up the driver, I was able to connect to the mount with POTH, but Stellarium would not connect to the mount while POTH was running. So after installing the new firmware, driver, and ASCOM 6.5, I tried once again. I also have a new laptop with very little software on it, so a decent platform for a new install (using Windows 10 Pro). With the release of the new firmware and driver, I thought I'd give it another go. So if anyone has an easy way to list and download the older versions, please let us know.I have been trying (for several months off an on) to get Stellarium to control my EXOS2 reliably. I finnally got it listed and chose that version (0.11.4) because it was the oldest-2012, but I don't remember how I got it to list it, sorry. But there is no clear way to get the older version to download. The problem is that Stellarium wants to give you there latest version, which normally is great. Here is the version I downloaded 0.11.4 and it works well. Instead of waiting for any of that to happen, I went to and downloaded the oldest version on the site, which wasn't easy to find older listings. The video graphics developers, in my case that is Intel,Īny of these could implement OpenGL along with the video drivers themselves.The last Intel drivers for mine was in 2011 ! The designers of Stellarium, who, I feel, already gives us enough with this wonderful program, There are 4 possible sources to help with this: This seems to be, at this time, a problem addressed by no one.
