Reinstalling Astro Software using WIndows 11 (SharpCap, EQMOD, PHD2, ASCOM)

 

Screenshot with Sharpcam, EQMOD, PHD2

A couple of months ago I bought a more powerfull PC which also has W11. As a consequence I needed to reinstall all software to connect and work with my existing mounts and camera's.
Before I used mainly SharpCap and N.I.N.A. : SharpCap to polaralign and planet imaging. N.I.N.A. is used for deepsky imaging. Lately I'm using SharCap a lot for Solar Imaging and  found out more things can be done: feature tracking for imaging planets and the sun aswell as platesolving. I didn't use both of them but seems I need to get into this. 

In stead of installing N.I.N.A. I focussed on getting everything to work with SharpCap, meaning connecting the mount and my ASI Camera's.

At first following software was installed and/or updated with the last version:

- SharpCap 

- ASCOM 7.0.2

- PHD2 2.6.13

- EQMOD v200w 

After installing Synscan and setting up Ascom, the system requested to upgrade by firmware of the SynScan. I never did this before and thus the firmware of Synscan was upgraded to V4.42.

A dry run was done using:

- mount AZEQ6GT

- ASI Camera's: ZWO224MC and ZWO2600MC

- SharpCap

- Stellarium V25.2

- EQMOD

- PHD2

I used an external USB hub with 4 USB connections. The RJ cable from my SynScan was connected using an USB to the USB hub creating a serial COM 4 port. This can be checked using Devices of W11.

Baud speed was set on 9600 and after all connecting the dry run was performed succesful.

Below is my new workproces which still needs to be tested during a clear sky :)