[Kstars-devel] telescope control

[Jasem Mutlaq]

Thanks Jason! 

I'll ask few users to test KStars with the Celestron, I'll report back the 
results.

regards,
Jasem

On Friday 06 February 2004 01:11 pm, Jason Harris wrote:
> On Friday 06 February 2004 11:57 am, Jasem Mutlaq wrote:
> > Jason,
> >
> > Any news on the telescope? We need to address all problems before KDE
> > 3.2.1 is out.
>
> No, but I think we've amassed enough evidence to show that the problem was
> unrelated to INDI.
>
> (for those who don't know, I borrowed a telescope from my workplace to try
> out with INDI/KStars on my laptop, but I was unable to connect to the
> telescope.)
>
> I am actually at a loss what the problem could be:
>
> + At the telescope shop, I tried connecting KStars to another person's
> telescope, but got the same connection error
>
> + I tried two different connector cables at the telescope shop, same error.
>
> + I took the telescope home and tried it on my desktop computer as well,
> same error.
>
> + Jasem suggested installing some Windows telescope control shareware, and
> I did that.  These programs were also unable to connect to the telescope.
>
> Since I swapped out every single part of the system, I really don't
> understand what the problem could be.  My only guess at this point is that
> the weird connector cable I bought (which is a phone jack on one end and a
> serial port connector on the other end) is not the right cable for this
> telescope.  It's unlikely that I got a defective one, because I tried two. 
> So if anything, it must be that the cable's designed for another telescope.
>  Even that is unlikely since I also tried to connect to completely
> different telescope (a Celestron GPS, as opposed to the Celestron NexStar 8
> I had borrowed).
>
> So, no idea what the problem is, but since I couldn't even make other
> programs connect, the issue is unlikely to be an INDI problem.
>
> I'm going to try again at some point, but I'll be out of town for the next
> ten days or so.
>
> regards,
> Jason