Orion Starblast Autotracker/Sky-Watcher Virtuoso mount

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Orion Starblast Autotracker/Sky-Watcher Virtuoso mount

Post by naramsin » Mon Jul 04, 2016 8:45 am

Hello All,

I'm a first time poster here. Apologies if this has been addressed elsewhere.

I have one of the above mounts. I would like to connect it directly to my Macbook with either a USB2EQ5 or BT2EQ5. I do not have the HC, and do not want to buy one (too expensive).

Would this work, or are the adapters only for EQ mounts?

Thank you for your time.

Naramin

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Re: Orion Starblast Autotracker/Sky-Watcher Virtuoso mount

Post by dpanderson » Tue Jul 05, 2016 8:43 pm

The USB2EQx and BT2EQx products are really only designed for use with EQMOD ASCOM drivers on EQ style mounts that use the Synscan handcontroller. I don't believe it will work with the mounts in the title of this forum thread.
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