<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jan 2, 2009, at 12:17 PM, James Miller wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Monaco; font-size: 10px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div><div style="font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(102, 0, 0); margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Thanks for the heads up on ASCOM - I will steer clear of it until you give the all-clear. However, I still have a basic problem that I cannot connect to my AP1200 directly even without ASCOM (something that worked fine previously)... Any hints about where I should look?<br><br>Particulars are:<br><br>Dell XPS laptop<br>Windows XP<br>Prolific chipset based USB to Serial converter<br>Astro-Physics 1200 GTO CP3<br>Astroplanner 2.0b11<br></div></div></div></span></blockquote></div><br><div>Well, the telescope connection code has been _completely_ rewritten for V2, and includes new functionality that I have gleaned from the vendor-supplied documentation. Undoubtedly this will require some debugging. </div><div><br></div><div>A good start is to edit the Mount parameters and set the "Show data flow to and from telescope" option ON. This will (in theory) give you a trace of the raw commands/responses being used, and might lead to throwing some light on the matter.</div><div><br></div><div>As I've mentioned, once I've conquered some of the more obnoxious bugs elsewhere, telescope control is on my short list.</div><div><br></div><div>Paul R.</div><div><br></div></body></html>