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Skywatcher Virtuoso mount support in SkyWatcherMountAPI

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Skywatcher Virtuoso mount support in SkyWatcherMountAPI was created by Csaba Kertesz

This is a simple announcement post to find with Google. :)

I worked on the SkyWatcherMountAPI telescope driver these weeks to make it compatible with Skywatcher Virtuoso mounts. So far so good, the driver seems to be stable and works without any problems.

Feel free to use it.

Planned features:
- Support for wedge
- Autoguiding support
The following user(s) said Thank You: Jasem Mutlaq, Oleg, T-Studio
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Replied by T-Studio on topic Skywatcher Virtuoso mount support in SkyWatcherMountAPI

I would like to use this driver.
Could you make it public?
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Replied by Csaba Kertesz on topic Skywatcher Virtuoso mount support in SkyWatcherMountAPI

It is shipped with Indi and available in the PPA version and the Raspbian tar file as well.

I wrote some more information on the wiki page how it works:

www.indilib.org/devices/telescopes/skywa...virtuoso-alt-az.html
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Replied by T-Studio on topic Skywatcher Virtuoso mount support in SkyWatcherMountAPI

Thank you for your reply.
I will check it because there is a mount.
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Replied by Csaba Kertesz on topic Skywatcher Virtuoso mount support in SkyWatcherMountAPI

The Virtuoso mount has a vertical drift which causes almost impossible to keep a target in smaller FOV (<1 degree) for a longer time. I implemented a software correction in the driver (SoftPEC) and it seems to work great. The details and how-to are detailed on the usual wiki page:

indilib.org/devices/telescopes/skywatcher-virtuoso-alt-az.html

The implementation should hit the bleeding-edge PPA today or tomorrow.
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Last edit: 7 years 2 weeks ago by Csaba Kertesz.
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