EQMOD videos

[mymoon]

Most of the China made Equatorial Mounts have primitive Hand controllers. They are clones of Japanese or American mounts. I guess they can reversed engineer the mechanicals but maybe not worthwhile for the electronics.

To overcome the shortcomings of the Hand Controller for what is otherwise an excellent  mount a group of amateur astronomers have got together to do what is now known as The EQMOD project . This consists of a suite of open source applications that can provide an alternative to the hand controller.

Click here for  more details and list of  supported mounts

Now the mounts can be control via laptop and planetarium programme.

It can also be  wireless control via Sony Playstation Gamepad and Wii Wiimote control unit

video for the Wii

The details of EQMOD can be in pdf or video series

Saudara Shah can probably tell more. He is 100% converted.

cheers

[shahgazer]

Saudara Shah can probably tell more. He is 100% converted.

cheers

Converted bab apa ni pak aziz? Hehe 

Anyway, memang diakui EQMOD boleh meningkatkan keupayaan mount sedia ada, terutama jenis skywatcher atau orion.

Seperti mount HEQ5 pro dan NEQ6 yang saya guna Keypad sedia ada mempunyai satu kekurangan yang amat besar, tak boleg SYNC. Tak seperti meade

Oleh itu, bila guna EQMOD dan juga alat converter handpad EQDIR, saya boleh kawal direct menerusi PC dan ditambah dengan banyak function lain seperti sync, dan jumlah alignment star yang infinity!

Next add-on, skyfi with sky safari... Wohooo..