Geoff,

The old CdC telescope plugins cannot work with Win64 (any version).

For this reason I added the capability to connect directly to an ASCOM driver. 
You can now select ASCOM instead of "CdC plugin" from the System / Telescope 
configuration (or right click the telescope button). This is working, even if 
this window look unfinished :)

The only problem at the moment is with the ASCOM telescope chooser, it not work 
from a 64 bit application so the Select button only give an error message. This 
will probably be fixed in a future ASCOM release. 
I suggest using the POTH hub (it is set by default) and select the telescope 
model from POTH after you click the Configure button. This must avoid any 
problem with a specific driver not ready for 64 bit as POTH itself is a 32 bit 
application.

If you already configure your telescope with the 32bit version it must keep the 
setting. So it is best to edit the file scope.ini in the user setting directory 
and replace the driver name by POTH.Telescope (or delete the file).

I tested this last week with Win7 x64 and the Celestron driver, all is working 
fine.

Also if you change from 32 to 64 bit do not forget to uninstall the 32bit 
version first to avoid any mismatch between C:\Program Files(x86)\Ciel and 
C:\Program Files\Ciel

I will appreciate more testing with this 64 bit version.

Patrick 


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