3) Click on Mount to connect to your mount. Since you have an equatorially mounted telescope, select EQ type,
then use the “Select Ascom Driver” window to select your mount type. Then click on the gear icon in order to
show the ASCOM properties. PLEASE NOTE: in order to connect your ASCOM mount to PLAY, you have
to use the latest ASCOM Platform (tested with 6.4 version and later) and your mount ASCOM drivers.
Please refer to your mount user manual in order to check how to correctly use it with ASCOM platform.
Your mount has to be polar aligned and in home position. Then, if you use a SkyWatcher mount, you
have to turn on the mount, insert date, time, latitude, longitude in your mount handpad until you reach
the menu asking to make the star alignment. Then connect the USB cable from the mount’s handpad to
your EAGLE or Windows computer.
4) In the ASCOM properties window that opens, please set the COM port that is created for your mount. For
example you can enter in Windows Device Manager and check what COM port number Windows creates when
you plug the USB cable that connects your mount handpad to your EAGLE or Windows computer. In order to
better identify it, you can also connect and disconnect the USB cable since this will update the Device Manager
list. Then type the Latitude and Longitude values for your location and press OK button to confirm.
