I am trying to help a person (remotely over chat) to setup and use their mount for the first time. I don't own a SW mount, but have similar experiences with serial mount control on my Meade's for 20+

Well my Gamepad turned up today and what a difference! Its really easy to slew the scope now and I don't have to worry about the "pad" window. My only small gripe is it has a relatively long delay fro

I noticed today while doing some tests that it is possible to find a satellite in Stelarium and slew the scope to the last position it was at. Is there any way to get Stelarium (via EQMod) to actually

Excuse me if some of my questions are a bit basic, but I am wondering if the encoders on an EQ6 are sending an "absolute" or a "relative" position when EQMOD first fires up. For example, say I park th

I’ve just received a new skywatcher EQ8-R pro mount which has the Auto Home feature in the Synscan HC My previous mount was an EQ6-R pro mount so I just manually set Home Position the conventional way

Sorry if this has been asked before, but is there any way to make the arrow keys on the computer control the slew on the mount? According to the documentation this is supposed to work but on my laptop

I've been using this mount with HEQASCOM for several years without problem but I've suddenly started getting comms errors. I noticed it because looking at the EQMOD control window while tracking I not

Hi everyone, Apologies if this isn't the right forum for support. I have a EQ6R Pro mount and I'm trying to connect it to N.I.N.A. I am using a EQMOD ASCOM control cable (from hand control port to my

Chris, Frank Liu is offering to add the new SkyWatcher additional command set to your EQControll.dll. Are you interested? If so please email me. --Rob Morgan

Hi All, I would like to use eqmod with skywatcher ED6R pro motors and control card on a paramount MEII. Gear ratio is easy to change but how to change the motor rotation directions with eqmod? Of cour

I see many old references to a 'color button', but not finding that in the current release. Is there a way to change the font colors for the drop downs? I have a low-light set-up on my laptop and the

I’ve been having quite the difficulty getting EQMOD to work with my Skywatcher HEQ5 & NINA software. In NINA it shows moonrise at 14:11, moonset at 05:52. Those seem off to me. For instance, Photopill

Dear all Can ASCOMPAD swap the RA & DEC axis of the joypad? I use the ASCOMPAD to run Alt/Az mode and needing to swap RA/DEC to match the direction of the mount moves. Possible? Thanks Stephen

> I have a remote observatory with a voyager-controlled EQ8pro. > The mount is parked in a particular position for closing the roof. > > If the power fails or some problem occurs, I need to run an aut

Hello, and sorry if this issue has been raised before. My starting position when initializing equmod is 90º, pointing north, but often when parking it ends at 87º instead, that is 3 degrees difference

Every night I go to observe, in the first connection, I must reset the computer to establish a connection with eq6, otherwise it will not connect. I welcome any advice on the above

Tuesday, April 20, 2021 EQMOD is closing randomly (within 30 minutes to 2 hours) while collecting light frames. I found the following Windows 10 error message in the event log. The time stamp on the e

-- EQMOD will not load properly. It flickers then disappears leaving this error message. This happened right after loading the latest NINA version. No idea if they are related. EQMOD had been working

So I have managed to connect my mount to eqmod. My com port is 3 at baud 9600 which is the same on eqmod, and I can control the mount fine through the slew controls. However when I try and connect to

I have a skywatcher eqm-35 pro and I manage to successfully connect it to eq mod however when I try and connect to stellarium or nina it never connects. It either says "connection error" or something