Pete, You touched on another interesting point. At the risk of going OT here, while you are controlling your mount “remotely from your house”, as you say, HOW do you guarantee that your

I think people get overly enamored of "modular" solutions. Often these things just introduce complexity that no one wants to support use cases that only a few people care about. We are probably better

Hi Zak, You wrote: would I think it would be more useful than serial. Here's some reasons why: * Even at "only" 100 mbit speeds (1 Gbit is common and 10Gb emerging) Ethernet can theoretically

While chewing on the idea about an ethernet controlled mount, I reached a very similar conclusion to Christopher, namely a modular GTOCP with a range of extensions. Although I like the idea of

Rolando thanks for looking and the nice comment. My Mach 1 makes imaging much easier and far more enjoyable. Tom

Ethernet and USB have considerably-higher program code and component overhead than RS-232 and most all microcontrollers already have an RS-232 port cast in their silicon that literally comes for

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Hi Howard, Many thanks, most appreciated. Kind regards Simon

These cable are console cable used to connect to network equipment on their serial port. The RJ45 in this case is NOT an Ethernet connection but a serial connection. The pinout of the RJ45 side can be

http://www.amazon.com/HDE-9-Pin-Serial-Ethernet-Adapter/sim/B004F72A9I/2 Disclaimer: I have not used any of these. Tom

Thanks, Howard. VERY much appreciate you taking the time to do this. Tom

Ah, the Apple world and it colorful, mysterious denizens... And I forgot all about Firewire/IEEE-1394! My apologies! I even still have a Firewire camera with no computer that can connect or control

Chris, Actually, the HDMI port is gone on my MacBook Pro...replaced by a Thunderbolt port (sort of Firewire++, I guess)...I do have a couple of USB ports, though

I would choose autoguider with phd with exposures of frames of at least 3 secs , however I'd recommend going the PEMPRO way Suresh [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

First there was PCMCIA 1. Then there was PCMCIA 2. Then came CardBus (PCMCIA form factor) Then came ExpressPCI (1/2 PCMCIA form factor) Then came MiniPCI internal (tiny circuit board with edge

My 2009 Toshiba does. Look carefully. They are covered and don't appear as an obvious slot Geoff

My 2006 Toshiba and 2010 Asus don't have PCMCIA slots or any other slots.

I use 4-port Tripplite and Icron Ranger in my observatory. I had a couple BSODs but now I connect the Icron and cold boot the HP Win64 laptop and it's been reliable since. I'm running my ST-10XME

Hi all, If I wanted to do PEC (or PEM as the manual says) training for my Mach1, the manual has two methods. I have a high magnification double lined illuminated eyepiece, and also an Orion

PCMCIA is an old standard. At some point along the way, it was replaced by PC Card (which may be the same thing, but renamed). My current laptop (a Lenovo W520) was the first machine I owned