Beginners guide to setting up and using ASCOM to control your astrophotography gear - Part One 

Finally a tutorial video that provided information that this raw beginner, who hasn't used the Window format in years, could use. This has been just what I have been looking for. Thank you from this new subscriber.

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As a guy loves astrophotography but has early onset dementia, Nice clear detailed explanations. Yes I replayed your vid many times but I think I have a chance to get back to astrophotography

ASCOM needs to add this vid and your name to the credits. Thanks for this.

Thank you! I spent a lot of money on all this equipment and am having a difficult time getting it to run. You just threw me a lifesaver with this instruction video. On to part two now.

Finaly a video so clearly explained that i think i am now able to try the setup that is comming. thank you for this. i wil be going thrue this a couple of times. and new sub offcourse

Great, straightforward & easy to follow tutorial. After several years of visual astronomy I've decided to try my hand at AP & the learning curve is very steep with so much to try & understand (appropriate kit, correct procedures, post processing etc to name just a few things) I'd been putting off trying to get my head around ASCOM which I saw as just another thing to learn (but not essential). After watching your 2 videos I've realised it will actually make the whole proccess 'easier' rather than just adding more information overload. I feel much more confident using it now. Thank you. Btw I've subscribed to your channel.

Extremely useful information, wish I had seen this a month ago its all clear now. Thanks, much appreciated.

Supberb! this is going to be my go to video for astro software download info. I now understand ascom and why I need it.

Wow! Thanks for the ground up install and explanation. So many YT video producers just assumes you already know some stuff or already have some things installed/configured.

Very Very enjoyable. thank you so much for the entire process. I downloaded everything you downloaded. Now I will watch part two

Thank you SO much for this great tutorial!!! I'm setting up my third AP laptop this morning (long story...). Although I've stubbled through the process by piecing together information from various videos having it all together like this is FABULOUS!!!

Amazing - this was just what I needed in my journey from short exposure to guided long exposures. Still tons to figure out but this is looks like a huge help.

Just what I needed. Brilliant. Thank you very much.

Great Job! I'm setting up for the first time. Easy to follow and understand.

Thanks buddy, this helped me a lot inside this jungle

Thank You for a very informative Video

Fantastic videos (P1 & P2) can't wait to try this out once I get my Skwatcher Wifi Unit in a few days

Hogarth, thank you for your excellent part1

Superb. Really clearly explained. Thank you!

I've always thought that you astronomers have always had big "communication" problems with other human beings, you probably think that all other human beings are born already learned. If in your opinion this is a tutorial for beginners, I, who have been trying to learn for several years, took me 4 hours to understand what you were doing, also because there isn't one of you who has the same settings. Anyway, I'll try to start something, if I succeed I'll thank you.

Very thorough! So many details, and I love it. Maybe in part 2 (or 3 or 4 😂) you could talk about the EQmod driver settings in detail. 🤞

Bedankt

hi i just watched your video and i am not sure where you found the celestron telescope and mount drivers downloads site.

Thanks... this is very helpful. I would love to see a video about the hardware you use to connecting the equipment in the observatory and your PC in the house. I believe I have seen all of your videos but I have never seen this addressed. I'm just assuming it is WiFi.

Thank you very much for this video. I have a Bushnell Nextstar alt az mount. Will ascom work with this mount?

Downloaded framework 3.5 and Ascom still fails to install

I have a windows 10 computer which is the main in the house but when I try to contact to eqmod it cannot find the port to contact to eqmod any ideas thanks

Great video for a beginner. When is part 2 due? Cheers

Thanks for the information. Can you discuss what settings you used to define the ASCOM simulated camera and scope in order to get the plate solving to work? I’ve tried to plate solve using the simulated setup and I can’t get it to work.

With ASCOM 6.5 SP1 you need dotNET version 4.8

Thank you for your amazing tutorial. I have been trying for several days now with no luck. And actually as per my mount firmware I found that I need Ascom 6.4 or 6.5 versions. Unfortunately I couldn't find them anywhere, so I am stuck again. I am not leaning toward the firmware upgrade route yet. I have the iOptron gem45. Do you still have Ascom old versions or direct me to any links? Thank you very much.

Dear Hogarth. First a big thank you for this tutorial videos. Such a help when getting into astrophotography with all these software options. If I may: I set up practically all the software as shown in your 2 tutorials. Mostly without problems. What dos not work is the ASCOM simulation camera. It works when I have my DSLR attached producing an image. But the simulation produces just a gray image, not the stars the mount points to. At the beginning I had the Orion Nebula showing but I figured out that came form a subfolder. I have chosen the CCD: ACOM camera > Camera V3 Simulator > have left all settings as given in the followed window. If I choose the other simulator called simulator, I get a really strong granulated grey image. Does not matter where in Stellarium telescope points to. Any suggestions? I would appreciate your help Thank you and best regards, Georg

I get the impression that the ascom centrepiece must run on Windows. Is that correct? Or can I use ascom on a linux-only network?

Well I got PhD working about 2 months ago now time to setup and use apt .

Thank you for this helpful video but as a really new beginner it doesn’t tell me how to get my mount to talk to APT ? Help!

Getting a confusing message when I install ascom:- Please use the new device hub instead of platform 5 hubs and there is a strange "path structure" showing which refers to hubs. Not sure how to continue. Thanks

sorry...........i have a celestron cgem mount.