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I was thinking of replacing my laptop in the observatory but I can't find the CD to install the Servocat Sky program on the "new" laptop, is there a way to download the software without a CD? Best

Dear all, dear Gary, I was at observatory last night and tested again my yellow Led problem. I was pretty sure last time that when I pressed the local synch on my hand pad no yellow led lit on Handpad

Raphael, The wireless HC - well both the wired and the WL - get their led signals FROM the ServoCAT. Thus it will not 'work' stand alone. g.

Hello Gary Yes I had exactly the same conclusion as yours : if the red aux light turned on => I was in autolock, so local synch had been activated => the 2 yellow LED on Handpad and on main unit

Raphael, Good day sir. Ok ... so if the red AUX light came on then you were in AutoLOCK mode... and to be in AL mode you had to be in Local Sync mode. So the yellow SYNC led on the HC should be on as

Dear all, I was not using the local sync function but after reading manual I believe it is quite powerfull to find faint objects. So yesterday at end of observation I tried to activate it on M42 with

Hi Richard, Gary, thanks for this additional info. Regards, Mike

Mike, At the moment and for the foreseeable future a DSC will need to be connected and have to have been aligned before you can do a PC Planetarium connection. The DSC is what has the knowledge of the

Mike, The USB port on the ServoCAT gives Stellarium access to Argo Navis--a clever type of serial data pass thru that Gary designed. Stellarium will place a target style marker overlay on top of the

Hi Richard and Gary, thanks very much for your quick and positive responses on this.? I probably will just start by using my laptop not the hub mini-PC you use (sorry for the non technical terms). I

Ok, It will be the end of January before we get to use it again. I am almost certain that it is Gen3. I just wish it didn’t do the second movement. A little over a year ago one of the spur gears

Bob, Sorry - I think you missed the point. IF it is the latest version firmware then my point is a) that is why you are seeing a lower value and yet it moves again and b) there is indeed a last mover

No, it goto’s essentially almost 0’s. Then moves and ends up something like 0.30:0.55. Back when we first noticed it, the numbers were around 0.10 :0.10. I might suspect the gears are getting play

The algorithm is designed, assuming you are using the latest version firmware, to always end up in the direction of sidereal tracking. So - it does a GOTO. Then it gets the offset again from the DSC

Gary, Thanks for the reply. I will check the drive rollers. It seems to split the error between the axes. I will check both. Hadn’t really thought about it being slipping as it goes to the target

Hello Bob, Forgive me - I saw this and forgot to respond to it ... So - this sounds like a drive roller is slipping due to a loose grub screw. Check to see which axis is off first - then focus on the

Mike, Indeed you can "control" the scope using Stellarium or Sky Safari (also Cartes du Ciel). Control here meaning you can see where the scope is pointed and you can do a GOTO to an object you

Mike, I have the ServoCAT - Argo Navis driving my UC18. I loaded the ASCOM driver for ServoCAT and have been remotely observing inside my house. The key for my system was mounting a NUC type PC (Eagle

Hi, everything is working ok for me at present (20" f/4 classic Obsession, Paracorr field flatenner with ServoCat and ArgoNavis) and as I explained before I use SharpCap Pro's live stacking feature

Daniel, Yes - shouldn't be a problem. On my 12" Obsession used for astrophotography I am running the camera and the camera cooler as well as an Ryzen R5 miniPC - and of course the ServoCAT and Argo