User Manual

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ASCOM
16. On the diagnostic programs’ top menu find “Choose Device” and “Choose and Connect to Device”.
17. This will bring up the programs window. Find and push the “Choose” button.
18. The ASCOM Chooser window will display. Find and select “ES_PMC8.Telescope” in the drop-down
list. (Figure 1.)
19. Push the “Properties” button and display the PMC-Eight™ ASCOM Driver Configuration window.
(Figure 2.)
Figure 1. ASCOM Telescope Chooser window.
Figure 2. Explore Scientific PMC-Eight™ ASCOM
configuration window.
20. Select the mount type in the drop-down list.
21. Choose Enable WiFi TCP/IP radio button.
22. The default values for the “Wireless Port Setup” are correct for this installation.
23. Update the “Site Data” for your location.
24. Press the OK button when done.
25. Hit OK on the ASCOM Telescope Chooser window.
26. On the “Device Connection Tester” window, press the “Connect” button and see that the program
connects to the PMC-Eight™.
27. On the “Device Connection Tester” window, press the “Get Profile” button and see that the
program displays the various ASCOM parameters from the PMC-Eight™.
28. You should see something similar to the following:
Create Creating device
Connected Connecting to device
Name Explore Scientific PMC-Eight ASCOM Driver
Description ES_PMC8 Telescope
DriverInfo Explore Scientific PMC-Eight Mount Controller ASCOM Driver.
Developed by GRHubbell. Contact Explore Scientific at www.explorescientificusa.com . Version: 6.0
DriverVersion 6.0
InterfaceVersion 3
RA, Dec 22:13:05.927 90:00:00.000
Latitude, Longitude 36:10:50.268 -94:11:18.168
Tracking False
Connected Disconnecting from device
Dispose Disposing of device
Dispose Completed disposal