connecting AAM to stellarium

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connecting AAM to stellarium

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Hi all
we bought a celestron C8 + advanced astro master back in 1996 and have had a lot of good viewing. Recently we purchased an Orion G4 colour camera and I thought wouldn't it be nice to connect the AAM to stellarium.....this is where I started ripping my hair out, i've downloaded stellariumscope , purchased a serial to USB cable and installed the software and tried every pinout I have found on line to no avail , if anyone has had success with this setup I would really appreciate any help. I like our fork mount and don't want to upgrade to a computerised goto german eq. mount. I would be quite happy with the push to system we have to work with stellarium
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Re: connecting AAM to stellarium

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Hello Michael,

Welcome to TSS. Glad you joined us.

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Re: connecting AAM to stellarium

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Hi Michael and welcome to Tss I am not familiar with set up hopefully someone will shed some light on this
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Welcome to TSS Michael, sorry I can't help you.
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Re: connecting AAM to stellarium

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Hi Michael, and welcome here to the Forum!

I did some looking around, and I did not find very much about the Celestron Advanced Astromaster. It appears that the Advanced Astromaster is a set of digital setting circles. I was able to find this web site:

http://www.ngc1514.com/Celestron/aam.htm

and also this Sky & Telescope review:

http://www.jimsmobile.com/html_docs/ngc_review1.htm

Since I don't think Stellarium was not available back in 1996, I'm not certain if it is designed to communicate with the Celestron Advanced Astromaster?

You might take a look at Celestron's manuals site:

https://www.celestron.com/pages/manuals

There seem to be some manuals available there.

My best suggestion would be to try calling Celestron Customer Support. I would think they should be able to tell you if the Advanced Astromaster is able to connect with Stellarium.

Good luck!

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Re: connecting AAM to stellarium

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Hi again,

I found this site that talks about interface wiring for the Advanced Astromaster:

https://www.projectpluto.com/encoders.htm

Good luck!

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Re: connecting AAM to stellarium

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And here's some info from Stellarium that indicates you may be out of luck as far as Stellarium is concerned:

https://sourceforge.net/p/stellarium/di ... /d672db7a/

Sorry about that!

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Re: connecting AAM to stellarium

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And finally, here's an article posted by someone who seems to have done a lot of work to get the Advanced Astromaster connected to his laptop:



There may be hope yet!

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Re: connecting AAM to stellarium

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thanks smp that was very helpful, but I think from what I just read that the AAM has been superceded by time and technology
the AAM works quite well on my scope, I would have liked to have had a real time display on my computer. The C8 I believe , was the last model before computerised 'scopes were introduced,.... who was to know
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Michael
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