Willi replied to the topic 'Skysafari 7 with stellarmate' in the forum. 1 year ago

Polaris is blocked by my house. I use the PAA (aka PAT) in EKOS fore polar alignment. As stated in the previous post, My mount has its integrated INDI server, which is equivalent to a StellarMate-based INDI Xserves. I access the INDI server from KStars/EKOS from my M1-MacBook and run the the PAA. Works perfectly now.

Since the M1-based Macs can run (some) iOS- and iPadOS-based apps, I can run SkySafari 7 Pro, the ASIAIR or the StellarMate apps directly from my Mac. This is so cool.

Effectively, depending on what I need to do, I run KStar/EKOS on the Mac for the PAA first and then, for the EAA, I use PHD2 for guiding, ASIAIR for imaging and either the ASIAIR Atlas or SkySafari 6 or 7 for slewing, i.e. GOTO. The Avalon StarGO2 INDI server is basically the hub for the mount to make this all possible. Depending on the mount, the SG2 could easily be replaced with the StellarMate.

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