

The installation program will automatically install the documentation but the link to the documentation is provided here so you can read it before installation. Use VirusTotal web site to test for yourself. To my knowledge all files on this web site are virus free but please be cautious. For some reason Windows 10 Defender (and possibly Norton) is identifying the setup as having a virus.Go to Configuration window | Plugins | Telescope Plugins.If you are using an earlier version of StellariumScope (you can just ignore the version warning messages), you may find the first time you use Stellarium the Telescope plugin option may not start automatically.You may also receive a message about the "Telescope plugin' that may require Stellariun be started and stopped a couple of times.This will typically activate the "Telescope plugin" option of Stellarium (see information below).

You may receive a warning message about the version but that can typically be ignored. so no new release of StellariumScope is required as of.

This means that using some other Window other that Stellarium (such as when you do a manual slew using a Windows utility), the Stellarium Window loses focus.

Now I just have the one local, ASCOM entry that I created with ASCOM.Note that Stellarium supports ASCOM telescopes natively since version 0.19.3. I realised that StellariumScope used to put the three entries in the Telescope Control panel #1 Slew, #3 Sync and #5 Cancel. However, when I tried the sync (ctrl-3) option. I selected my EQ6 mount form the familiar Ascom drop-down menu and connected fine. "Fantastic" I thought to myself! Went right in to the Telescope Control plugin and there it was, an ASCOM option. There’s no need to use StellariumScope in order to use your ASCOM telescopes with Stellarium anymore" I then read on the website "that Stellarium supports ASCOM telescopes natively since version 0.19.3. So having updated Stellarium to 0.20.1, I double checked that there wasn't a new version of StellariumScope too.
