The weather forecast showed partly cloudy for yesterday evening so I head to the observatory.
I saw stars for about 5 minutes wich after started to snow... So much for my plans for the precise polar alignment!
But, something good because of the clouds! I removed all the hidden COM-ports of my laptop and got the ASCOM-driver working! That's really good news because now I can let the computer do all the hard work of the polar alignment and all that I have to do is rotate the adjustment knobs. And now I don't have to use TheSkyX Pro as a mount control and a planetarium program for the CCDCommander (it's quite heavy for my old observatory computer) because I can do them with the ASCOM. Hopefully weather will get better soon...
12 Dec 2011
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