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103		brownep@...	Feb 6, 2001 4:10 am
	In the ~telescope\Source directory we can find theSkyDriver.dll and a corresponding test.vbs... Set s = CreateObject("Bisque.Telescope") Set u =...
104		Bob Denny rdenny@...	Feb 6, 2001 2:21 pm
	... ...and the sources for this driver under Source :-) This driver connects to the scripting interface provided by TheSky for telescope control, effectively ...
105		Bob Denny rdenny@...	Feb 6, 2001 9:40 pm
	Well, it's about time for one more cut at the Telescope SDK. The simulator has been upgraded to have some capabilities checkboxes so developers can test their...
106		Bob Denny rdenny@...	Feb 7, 2001 1:13 pm
	As a post-script to the addition of Tracking & CanSetTracking, the current spec says that RightAscensionRate can be used to turn tracking on and off, and by...
107		pierre pallez pallez@...	Feb 7, 2001 2:19 pm
	Hello all this is my first mail on this group. I am amateur astronomer by passion, and my daytime job is software developer/analyst. I am currently working on...
108		matthias.busch@...	Feb 7, 2001 6:56 pm
	... You are right. ... I've just attended the Microsoft developer conference "MSDN Technical Summit .NET" here in Germany (with bill Gates... :) ...
109		Jeff Medkeff medkeff@...	Feb 8, 2001 12:24 am
	... Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought that COM was supported on several UX-like platforms. Of course AFAIK none of the ASCOM partners is programming COM...
110		Bob Denny rdenny@...	Feb 8, 2001 5:09 am
	Matthias -- ... Typical Microsoft-talk -- But .NET is a really nice idea, and it looks promising. They are betting the farm on it too. They got aced out of the...
111		Douglas B. George dgeorge@...	Feb 8, 2001 5:26 am
	... Yes, and OLE is already dead. Microsoft always provides backwards compatibility with new technologies, and then gradually makes the old stuff fade away...
112		Bob Denny rdenny@...	Feb 8, 2001 5:47 am
	Hello all -- The ASCOM Telescope Driver SDK Beta 4 is now available at: http://ASCOM-Standards.org/downloads.html This build incorporates Mel Bartels' tracking...
113		matthias.busch@...	Feb 8, 2001 9:46 pm
	... The same with me before the conference, I couldn't tell you, too... But that event cleared things up for me. It was rather technical, they often showed...
114		Arne Danielsen arnedani@...	Feb 14, 2001 1:29 pm
	I would just like to give you an update on the progress of my Vixen SkySensor 2000-PC telescope driver. Last weekend I updated the driver to comply with the...
115		Bob Denny rdenny@...	Feb 16, 2001 2:10 pm
	Arne -- Very exciting!! And good job getting things sync'ed with beta 4. I know te pace of changes is rather fast, but we need to get this right. I have...
116		Arne Danielsen arnedani@...	Feb 22, 2001 9:39 pm
	Thanks Bob! Sorry about the late reply! I have been away for a couple of days. Last Sunday I did some preliminary testing of my SS2K driver using Starry Night...
117		Bob Denny rdenny@...	Feb 23, 2001 3:24 am
	Arne -- Great news! Thanks for doing this, and thanks for the feedback on the Starry Night plug-in. -- Bob...
118		Bob Denny rdenny@...	Mar 3, 2001 9:50 am
	Greetings! I have released the Kepler Ephemeris Engine 1.0 for general use. A few people have been successfully using the 0.2 alpha version for 9 months, and I...
119		Cristovao Jacques cjacques@...	Mar 3, 2001 12:30 pm
	Bob, There must be some problem with the Kepler Orbit download link. Take a look. Regards, Cristovao Jacques...
120		Ajai Sehgal ajai@...	Mar 3, 2001 7:08 pm
	Bob, The Kepler link appears to be broken. Ajai. ... From: Bob Denny To: ASCOM Talk Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2001 01:49 Subject: [ASCOM] ANN: Kepler 1.0...
121		Bob Denny rdenny@...	Mar 3, 2001 9:16 pm
	OOPS! The link is fixed. Sorry, that was in the wee hours of the morning :-) -- Bob...
122		Pat Browne brownep@...	Mar 6, 2001 4:38 am
	Hi, We're trying to put the pieces together, now that we have a Digital Domeworks Homedome delivered. Question: Given we have an ASCOM compliant TheSky driver...
123		Bob Denny rdenny@...	Mar 6, 2001 6:40 am
	If I understand your question -- the "ASCOM compliant driver" is a telescope control driver. It exposes an inteface ("Telescope") that is meant for telescope...
124		Pat Browne brownep@...	Mar 6, 2001 4:34 pm
	THis makes a lot of sense. I don't know if we(smartsoftees) have the savy to produce a reference implementation for an ASCOM wrapper; your comments about the...
125		Jeff Medkeff medkeff@...	Mar 6, 2001 11:49 pm
	... I've added a few non-astronomical software-hardware widgets that use the Component Object Model to our mix at 701 over the last few months, and this sort...
126		Matthew L. Bisque matthew@...	Mar 7, 2001 12:28 am
	Bob, ... TheSky does not expose any dome control. Software Bisque's dome control is handled through Automadome. ... This way, a single method latches both...
127		Matthew L. Bisque matthew@...	Mar 7, 2001 12:31 am
	To those interested: Software Bisque has posted an updated CCDSoft beta release, beta 9. Be sure to read about and try our new @Focus technology (pronounced...
128		Bob Denny rdenny@...	Mar 7, 2001 2:23 am
	... Sorry about that. I got my information from the RASCOM help file, Dome Object, Remarks: "The dome object contains methods and properties that access ...
129		Bob Denny rdenny@...	Mar 9, 2001 1:28 pm
	I took the liberty of posting this useful tidbit from Jeff Medkeff on the DC-3 Support list, where there are some scripting discussions. Most of the ...
130		Bob Denny rdenny@...	Mar 9, 2001 4:02 pm
	... Hmm. the list ate the TEXT! Here is is... ... I've made a small modification to Bob's spiral search code posted the other day. I have not fully tested it,...
131		Bob Denny rdenny@...	Mar 14, 2001 5:29 am
	Hi all -- It's been quiet here for a few weeks. We're just wrapping up the final Telescope interface SDK... It is looking really great. I added a couple of ...
132		Jeff Medkeff medkeff@...	Mar 14, 2001 8:39 am
	At the suggestion of a couple people on the list here, I've started an e-mail list devoted to discussion of robotic and remote-control observatories in...

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