2014-10-17

This night was going to be the first serious session of the season. Me and Jakob went out to Ekerö in hope that we were going to catch Eris for the first time. As usual the weather was not on our side, but we also had a couple of things to do indoors to optimize the equipment so this was not a critical issue. I had a problem with the optical line of the APO that needed to be fixed and we also had to update the astro-computer and install some new programs.

It was an exclusively indoor night with a lot of geeky discussions and internet surfing on new equipment and issues. One new problem that came up was when we were trying to remote control my LX200 from the computer. For Jakobs EQ6-mount from Skywatcher there is a brilliant program from ASCOM for that purpose called EQMOD, but we weren’t able to find a good substitute for the LX200 🙁 Anyone who knows about such a program ??