Neximage 10 Drivers

[Danel Potvin]

Ijust made an account on here so I could ask this! I have been trying to install the camera driver for a NexImage camera (for a NexStar 6SE telescope) on my Windows 10 computer, but since I bought this telescope in 2004, everything is out of date. The problem is when I plug the camera into the computer at the same time as having the NexImage downloads disk. The instructions say that when this happens, a "Found New Hardware" wizard should appear, and I just follow the prompts to download it. However, this is not coming up. My computer recognises the camera is plugged in, but for some reason it only recognises it as an audio device.

Hello and welcome to SGL. I believe that the original Celestron Neximage might not be compatible with windows 10. The method for installing drivers has changed, you should install the drivers before plugging a new device into the computer. Go to the windows device manager and uninstall and remove the drivers previously loaded. Install the software and drivers from the cd or from celestron's website then plug in the camera.

I have only just had exactly the same problem, I tried -and-software and downloading (Neximage Windows Driver) from the list. Downloaded it, unziped it and install it then shut down and restarted and nothing! It's still not working.

Have you looked in Device Manager on either of the PC's you tried to see if it came up in the list of devices attached to the PC when you plug in the device at all? If it does you should have the option to update the drivers through Device manager.

Download the linked file from Celestron, run an anti-virus scan on the zipped file first, if ok, unzip and run the installer to update the camera USB driver then plug in the camera and see if it is now found.

If still having problems, with the camera plugged in, click the Windows start icon and in the search box type RUN , in the search list that opens look for the RUN icon and click it, in the RUN dialogue window that opens type HDWWIZ , now follow the instructions on screen as the manual add hardware wizzard takes you through the steps of identifying and adding new hardware that is not found by the usual plug-n-play routine.

Oddsocks - Thanks - I've followed your instructions and sadly again it didnt find the camera. I then did the RUN command, clicked on the icon and typed in HDWWIZ to add hardware manually but it couldn't recognise the camera.

Thanks for your help guys- I'm starting to think there is a bad connection in the fixed lead or something. I'll contact the guy I bought it off, but if he doesn't have it back I'll try selling it spare or repair for a fiver perhaps. Or I might just stick it in the bin.

I didn't pay a huge amount for the camera, the guy just probably had it in a drawer for years and didn't realise it didn't work. Maybe I should learn from this and buy a better camera from a dealer? I was thinking of buying one of those multi purpose ZWO CMOS or QHY, or an old Atik 16/Titan camera anyway. Atik's are solid, that's one brand I've learned to trust second hand.

Thanks Micheal, but I've tried on my wifes Windows 7 PC with no joy, and if it's normal for to buy a Celestron camera and have to flash it to an SPC900nc, I have no idea what Celestron think they are doing?

If it's a driver issue then the device should at least show up in device manager, but with the error saying it couldn't find drivers. If I'm not mistaken, the fact that Windows doesn't see it at all means the hardware isn't working correctly. Either the cable, or worst case the camera itself

The good news is that the chap replied to my second message, and after a bit of discussion has agreed to refund me and take the camera back. I'll be off down the post office to send it back to him shortly.

Hi Guys , I thought i might share some news i found out about USB. I have been having extreme trouble the last 2 months since i got my equipment getting software to talk to my scope with no success as well as

getting my ZWO120MC camera to work only marginal success with firecapture but quality poor and settings not that responsive. It was suggested to try a Powered USB Hub after plugging it in and connecting the camera to USB it all worked and all the software immediately recognized the equipment , the same with picking up the scope. I didn't give the USB a thought as it functioned fine with external drives and flash drives obviously not enough power for the cameras and scope connections.

Yeah, you have to remember that these little usb cameras take their power from the usb port. If that power's not present for any reason then obviously the camera won't be recognised and won't work! Easy to check your port with another usb-powered device that you know is working.

My simple teaching philosophy about telescopes is: If you can do it with a simple telescope, you should be able to do it with a state-of-the-art one, of course much better. So, I do not recommend designing a curriculum thinking on one of those very expensive almost professional or semi-professional telescopes. Think about a telescope you can buy several of them for a junior high school class, so many have the opportunity to learn how to use one. There are some school which have a very expensive one but just a few students really get to know how to use it. The teacher is just too careful about that expensive piece of equipment that remain to demonstrations and very few or non hands-on.

So I started with one easy to operate and understand. One without any of those computerized motors and stellar maps and auto-tracking. One you can take apart to clean it up and align with being worry to disturb a special setting or calibration.

In addition I use a Celestron Moon Filter, and a solar filter fabricated by us. The solar filter is a mylar film mounted on the mouth of the cover of the telescope. All parts are kept in a customized carry-on bag in which I cut out foam to keep things organized. The carry-on bag was a souvenir of a UNESCO conference in science education to which I was invited. So, it was free.

It is no longer in use because it is not recognized by Windows 7 and the drivers CD has been lost for a while. I also have a Logitech QuickCam Express but there are no drivers for Windows 7 for this legacy webcam.

Another point to notice is that the new model of the PowerSeeker 114EQ offered by Celestron is completely black finish and the equatorial mount is different: only one adjusting screw and a tight nut which also serves to mount the Celestron Motor Drive for EQ Powerseekers (Celestron # 93514) which we also added to our Educational Telescope.

In preparation for comet PANSTARRS (C/2011 L4 PANSTARRS) which will be seen from our location at dawn, I first tried to make a cross mount for a camera, traditional reflex or digital one. It was not stable. After much thinking and not having a machine shop next door, I ordered the Universal Digital Camera Adapter from Celestron (Item # # 93626). There were other options but price were more expensive if I wanted to mount my old Russian reflex or my Japanese Nikon Digital camera.

Tired of hearing so much about CCD cameras, and having built my own CMOS-based astrocam, I went to eBay hunting for cheap CCD cameras or astrocams. With luck and patience I got two Celestron NexImage CCD-based astrocams, one of them with a NexImage Reducer. These cameras are based on the Philips SPC900 CCD webcams. To find the software drivers for Windows 7 I followed the indications given in the Support channel of Celestron, they were good enough to have my cameras running.

With two of these, which I got for about $40 each, now I can really compare between We requested to our university to buy two telescopes for our class. We finally settled on the Celestron Powerseeker 127EQ. It is economical, small enough and less complicated than others, and more compact than the 114EQ. Their images are better than the 114EQ but not as good as our Nexstar 5i but good enough for students. And their motor drive is the same as the 114EQ and 130EQ.

Unfortunately they arrive really shaken, one of them hard beaten -base of the focuser was damage- but we repair and re-collimate them. I decided to add my educational telescope (left in the picture) to let my students work better (each class size is 22).

The world of the webcam planetaryimager is a fickle one. I still remember back in the early days when theworld figured out to take videos instead of still images of the moon andplanets. People were ripping the cheap webcams off their computers andsleeving them down with cardboard tubes to fit into the drawtubes of theirtelescopes. The rigs looked ridiculous, but the results werestunning. Many of these early webcams were based on the Philips SPC-900,an inexpensive unit with a whopping 640 X 480 resolution. It turned outthe limited VGA resolution didn't matter, as Registax could throw away theblurry images in the video and stack the sharp ones. Noise tends to berandom, so the longer the video you were able to take, the more images you couldstack, thus reducing the noise.

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