Astromania Guide Camera Help

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David Erath

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Dec 10, 2018, 12:56:49 PM12/10/18
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Hello All!

 

I purchased the Astromania SGCMOS Series Telescope CMOS Camera to use as a guide camera, see link below.

 

I am having a ton of trouble getting PHD to recognize the camera, could possibly be a driver issue. The computer sees the device but for some reason does not show up as an available camera to use for PHD.

 

Any ideas?

 

 

https://www.amazon.c...tromania camera

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Dec 10, 2018, 1:05:59 PM12/10/18
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Hi David.  The link you posted claims they have an ASCOM driver for the camera.  I’d suggest installing that, at which point PHD2 should be able to use that interface.  

 

Good luck,

Bruce

 

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David Erath

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Dec 10, 2018, 1:12:32 PM12/10/18
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I'm not sure what drivers they are referring to. I was not able to find anything on the ASCOM site.  
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Bryan

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Dec 10, 2018, 1:36:48 PM12/10/18
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David

A couple comments

1.  From Amazon Q&A

2. The Amazon description suggests that the CD has the drivers.


Bryan

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Dec 10, 2018, 1:39:42 PM12/10/18
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HI David.  It’s hard to figure out where this thing comes from and who supports it.  But evidently people have figured some things out – take a look at the questions and answers section on this page:

 

https://www.amazon.com/Astromania-SGCMOS-Telescope-CMOS-Camera/dp/B01HPW8MWI

 

Make sure you look at all the Q&A.

Andy Galasso

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Dec 10, 2018, 2:03:00 PM12/10/18
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By physical appearance of the camera and packaging, it looks to be a re-branded ToupTek camera. In addition to the ASCOM driver option, you could try
the native ToupTek camera support in the most recent versions of PHD2 [PHD2 Development Builds].

Please let us know if the native mode works so we can update our supported cameras wiki page.

Andy

David Erath

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Dec 10, 2018, 2:22:16 PM12/10/18
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I will give this a try now.

David Erath

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Dec 10, 2018, 2:25:28 PM12/10/18
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That worked!! Thank you very much sir. The camera comes up as Touptek now in PHD but it works!

Andy Galasso

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Dec 10, 2018, 2:37:01 PM12/10/18
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ok, thanks for reporting back. I updated the wiki page.

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