I am striving to greatly reduce, if not eliminate, my MS Windows installations in advance of October 2025. I really do not want to deal with Windows 11 and forcing it to accept my CPUs. I do not plan to buy 7 new computers to make Microsoft feel secure when Linux runs just fine on all of them. Yes, I have 8 computers today, plus 2 Raspberry Pis, and only 1 is Windows 11 "ready". It happens to be one of the slowest CPUs as well! I have managed to migrate all my non-astronomy computers to Linux without issue. I actually find Pix Insight quite a bit faster now!

I have a StarMaster which uses a rather old Sky Commander and Star Tracker hardware made by Sky Engineering. There is an ASCOM driver for this. It was developed by an individual, not a company. As I see it, I have two options.
1. Replace the Sky Engineering boxes with OnStep hardware. This seems quite doable, but far from trivial.
2. Figure out a way to "use" the ASCOM driver.

I will probably continue to run some favorite tools in Wine like SkyTools since I think I'm willing to give up that program being able to directly issue goto commands.

At this point I am gathering options so all crazy thoughts are welcome.

Mark

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