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Hi,
I have been trying for a while now to get my skywatcher AZ GOTO mount to work with papywizard on Mac OSX Lion. I have now managed to get it working, but am still puzzled on how to trigger my camera (EOS 40D) to take the pictures.
I was intending on connecting my camera to my laptop via its USB.
Is it possible for Papywizard to trigger my camera when running on Mac OSX? If so what do i need and how do i set it up?
If not, i can run it on an XP virtual machine.
Any help would be greatly appreciated
Thanks
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Does your mount have a Snap port?
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No unfortunately not, it is the telescope mount.
I was going to attatch the camera to my laptop by its USB.
Last edited by montezuma110 (2012-01-22 23:43:58)
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montezuma110 wrote:
No unfortunately not, it is the telescope mount.
I was going to attatch the camera to my laptop by its USB.
Hmmm....If your GoTo mount is an early model that lacks the Snap connector and you are not running Papywizard on a Windows PC then I think your only way of triggering the camera shutter using Papywizard would be to use the special Bluetooth adapter from Teleskop-Austria than includes a shutter control port.
It's probably not that much more expensive to get another Merlin mount with a Snap connector which you could then control from any Papywizard platform.
An alternative approach to using Papywizard could be to purchase the Kolor/T&C Touch Controller which as I understand it can also trigger the camera shutter.
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Hello "montezuma110" .
Welcome on board !
All Merlin mount Goto or Not Goto have a "snap" port !
As Andrew said, some older models have no "snap" port CONNECTED !
But you can make the physical connection yourselve inside the head between the mother board and the external "Snap" connector.
Have a look inside your Merlin to the mainboard, it shoul be like the picture hereafter.
Snap Port
Wiring
Motor board
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Mediavets, I can run papywizard in a windows xp virtual machine if that would make it simpler.
Last edited by montezuma110 (2012-01-23 17:08:40)
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