Doug has posted aproposed camera/detector interface and filter wheel interface standards. My comments: (1) Call it "Detector"; not "CCDCamera" - this is in...
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Bob Denny
dc3dreamer
Oct 1, 2002 1:51 pm
Edward -- ASCOM components are not going to be free-threaded, by definition. One of the goals is to make it possible to implement components with Visual Basic,...
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Douglas B. George
maximccd
Oct 1, 2002 2:52 pm
... No problem. This would also imply that we would support non-CCD detectors. ... I'd like to clearly distinguish this as the array size, rather than...
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Bob Denny
dc3dreamer
Oct 1, 2002 7:00 pm
... Better yet. Your point is a good one. ... I apologize for the confusion. The idea would be to be able to fire off an exposure, then come back and look to...
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Matthew L. Bisque
mbisque
Oct 1, 2002 7:00 pm
Bob, Is the camera standard open-source like the telescope standard? Or will this standard require MaxIm? Matthew ... From: Douglas B. George...
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Douglas B. George
maximccd
Oct 1, 2002 8:08 pm
... Matt, I should really answer the question, since I made the original proposal (which may only bear a moderate resemblance to the final result, as you might...
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Douglas B. George
maximccd
Oct 1, 2002 8:12 pm
... If it's going to be a DLL driver, I don't see any way around that. Of course the driver can be built as an EXE if necessary for some reason, but the ...
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Gregory A. Pruden
gregorx2001
Oct 1, 2002 8:21 pm
Hi All, I just wanted to ask if the standard will support all of the various kinds of cameras used for astronomy and astrophotography. Specifically I am ...
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Bob Denny
dc3dreamer
Oct 2, 2002 12:17 am
I'll weigh in on this one. One of the goals of ASCOM is to make theinterfaces as simple and elegant as possible. This resulted in some compromises during the...
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tedinoue
Oct 2, 2002 1:32 pm
I second Bob's comments. I do not think it would be wise to have an all-encompassing standard that covers all types of imaging devices - the variety would be...
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Bob Denny
dc3dreamer
Oct 2, 2002 4:00 pm
Ted -- ... I'm not sure what you mean. I -think- I agree with you. :-)) I left a back door in the Telescope driver by providing CommandString, CommandBool, and...
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Douglas B. George
maximccd
Oct 2, 2002 5:16 pm
... I think I'd rather see it go that way. They really are different kinds of devices. Of course we can kludge a video camera into the current interface, but...
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Gil Jones
azgilrock
Oct 2, 2002 5:41 pm
I started this thread suggesting a couple additional methods to the Focuser standard and it turned into discussions about whether temperature compensation is...
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Landrum Haddix
lhaddix
Oct 2, 2002 7:15 pm
Gil, This isn't an answer to your main question but here are some points to consider in favor of implementing an .exe for your focuser. Some folks who buy the...
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Bob Denny
dc3dreamer
Oct 2, 2002 7:35 pm
Gil -- Adding to the existing interface is a bad idea, because someone -will- write a script or program that depends on the non-standard methods/properties,...
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Louis A. Mamakos
louismamakos
Oct 2, 2002 7:40 pm
... How is this worse than the methods in the Telescope drivers that allow applications to send random, opaque text strings to the telescope over "the" serial...
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Bob Denny
dc3dreamer
Oct 2, 2002 7:59 pm
The back door methods CommandXXX() are part of the standard. -- Bob...
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Landrum Haddix
lhaddix
Oct 2, 2002 8:08 pm
Gil, You can always make your focuser driver watch the ShutterOpen property on Maxim's camera object even if it isn't part of the focuser interface. Add a box...
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Louis A. Mamakos
louismamakos
Oct 2, 2002 8:14 pm
Ok, while they are part of the standard, I suspect they're probably much more of attractive nuisance when trying to write portable code than some additional...
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Gil Jones
azgilrock
Oct 2, 2002 10:55 pm
Landrum, I was planning on adding some control functionality to the .exe but my initial plan is to have the .exe talk to the focuser using the ASCOM driver....
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Gil Jones
azgilrock
Oct 2, 2002 10:55 pm
Bob, Ok, I guess when I read through the ASCOM standard information it wasn't clear that additional methods shouldn't be part of the driver. If someone did...
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Gil Jones
azgilrock
Oct 2, 2002 11:00 pm
I was really interested in the answer to this question from my earlier message. Let me re-phrase it. If the ASCOM standard is updated to include a new method,...
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Bob Denny
dc3dreamer
Oct 3, 2002 2:25 am
One DLL can implement multiple objects/interfaces. --Bob...
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matthias.busch@...
asteroid7687
Oct 3, 2002 7:17 pm
There's a small bug in the scope simulator setup dialog (frmSetup): Public Property Let Longitude(ByVal lon As Double) Dim u As Integer If lon < 0 Then lon =...
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matthias.busch@...
asteroid7687
Oct 3, 2002 7:28 pm
... Ooops - no, it's just interchanged, also the Let Latitude property is wrong: Public Property Let Latitude(ByVal lat As Double) Dim u As Integer If lat < 0...
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matthias.busch@...
asteroid7687
Oct 3, 2002 7:41 pm
Sorry, it's me again... The indices of both combos are also messed up, change "0" to "1" and "1" to "0". Matthias correct code: Public Property Let...
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Bob Denny
dc3dreamer
Oct 4, 2002 1:30 am
EXCELLENT, THanks Matthias!!! It will be fixed in 2.1. -- Bob...
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Gil Jones
azgilrock
Oct 4, 2002 2:47 pm
Ok. Well at least I'm early in development so I can make sure my ASCOM object/interface only implements ASCOM methods/properties. I haven't implemented...
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Bob Denny
dc3dreamer
Oct 4, 2002 10:51 pm
Hi all -- I hadn't expected this so soon, but SPACE.COM is coming out with the new Starry Night Pro V4, and it will contain the ASCOM Platform installer on the...
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C. Faranda
cfaranda24
Oct 5, 2002 1:14 pm
Hi Bob, The installer worked fine for me on Win2K SP3. The fixes discussed over the week appear to be there too. FYI: I did notice that the AstroOptik driver...
