Re: Connecting SCT to desktop

From: Chris L Peterson (clp_at_alumni.caltech.edu)
Date: 10/05/04 

Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2004 03:18:44 GMT

On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 22:56:50 -0400, "Dennis Allen" <dennis@dennisallen.com>
wrote:

>Hi. Our club just finished a new observatory. It houses a Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope with a wedge and permanent mount. We got
>the scope connected to a laptop using the serial port to run the scope and the parallel port for the web cam.
>
>We want to hook the telescope to the desktop computer in a nearby building. We have two 100' cat5 lines from the new observatory to
>the building with the desktop. Question. What's the best way to control the scope and web cam from the desktop?
>
>Could we hook the desktop to the laptop? The laptop's ports are used up, but could we hook up one of the cat5 lines to the USB
>port? Could we remote control the laptop from the desktop? Both computers are XP and both have USB ports. Any advice would be
>greatly appreciated...Dennis

Is the laptop in the observatory running XP Pro? If so, all you need to do is
set up a local area network and use Remote Desktop (client on the desktop
machine, server on the laptop) to remote the laptop to the desktop. It's very
simple, and works great. No need for USB anywhere in the solution, just
Ethernet.

It would also be simple to convert the mount's serial port to Ethernet and
control it directly from the remote computer, bypassing the laptop completely.
But the webcam is probably always going to require a local computer.

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com

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