I have a preliminary version of a universal Celestron driver. It needs testing and probably developing for different types of Celestron scope. It seems to work...
Hi Chris, Not sure I can help at this point but I do have a Nexstar 4 with new HC and a Nexstar 8GPS with 1.6HC, 3.0MC standing by to run tests with when the...
Bill -- Thanks for sharing your work with the group. And welcome!! I have replied to your messages privately with some ideas on how to accomplish your...
The Meade driver is WRONG! Holy s---! The ASCOM Telescope Interface Standard calls for Hours (Double) to be returned. I have fixed this, and the fix will be...
There is a maintenance update for the ASCOM Meade drivers available at the ASCOM Initiative web site: http://ASCOM-Standards.org/ in the Downloads section. The...
Bob, A lot of the other drivers are wrong in reporting the Sidereal time as a fraction of a day instead of in hours... The AstroPhysics driver The Gemini...
I just tried the new version of the Meade drivers with my focuser and it didn't work. I can't say if the older version worked or not, never tried it. In any...
Bob, if you don't mind, could make a single change to the FLI focuser driver? the current default in the source code for maximum move is 2200. Later production...
Ron -- I'll make that change, but I don't plan a new ASCOM Platform for a bit. I just released the Meade drivers as a maintenance release. The MidPoint should...
You are correct, and thank you very much. Ron Wodaski author of The New CCD Astronomy http://www.newastro.com ... From: Bob Denny [mailto:rdenny@...] Sent:...
For the ASCOM Telescope object, what goes inside the quotes on the CreateObject statement? (set Tele_Obj = CreateObject("??????????") Thanks, Jim Waller...
... Depends on which ASCOM Telescope driver you want to use. And that depends on the telescope type you want to hook up to. After you create the object, the...
That is the TelescopeID. The value of TelescopeID depends on what telescope driver you have chosen. You might want to use the ASCOM Chooser to select the...
Hi Chris, count me in on helping develop and test the new ASCOM driver. I'm all setup with VB6SP4 and have all of the ASCOM SDK installed so send me what you...
Bob, Has any thought been given to installing the help files with the Run-Time package? After installing the Run-Time package, I had non-functioning (file not...
Jim -- You should not have seen those start menu items unless you selected the developer content. Is it possible that you deleted stuff without using the ...
... The Telescope.chm file doesn't specify the units for the Sidereal time. I suggested disabling the Sidereal time function in the Celestron driver (so it...
I suggest the following additional method in the Telescope standard: Guide(AzRate as Double, AltRate as Double) AzRate and AltRate are the guide rates in...
Would the existing RightAscensionRate and DeclinationRate properties do? Unless I misunderstood your suggestion, they should be equivalent, though in different...
I totally agree with the Guide() method, but I don't think that a Guide(0,0) should set the scope to the normal tracking mode .. I think 0,0 should stop the...
What do we do with RightAscensionRate and DeclinationRate? If these are effective only under some tracking modes, I think we need to review the modiness of...
Commenting on the various comments: The RightAscensionRate and DeclinationRate would be fine on a polar aligned scope but would be difficult to implement on an...
I like ArcSeconds Per Second. Question: On the GPS models, they have a max rate of 3 degrees per second (3x60x60 arcSecs) but the iSeries claim to support 6...
I have taken Chris Rowlands code and added the declinationrate property and the rightascensionrate property and changed the tracking pulse guiding and slewing...
... No more difficult than implementing RightAscensionRate and DeclinationRate on an Alt-Az telescope, and for the same reasons. ... Do you mean we should have...
Hi All, I didn't get any bites on my last post, so let me ask another way. Has anyone successfully controlled a focuser via the updated Meade driver? Thanks, ...
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