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 ...
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Bob Denny
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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,...
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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 ...
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Jeff Medkeff
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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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Pat Browne
brownep@...
Mar 18, 2001 4:59 pm
Hi there, I have two scripts, and both give similar erros when I run them with the new SDK,using ACP and the script controls. The ACP complains about the...
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Pat Browne
brownep@...
Mar 18, 2001 5:13 pm
No,there is no problem with the console.printline. I realized it was a case of uninitialized data. I noticed the declination on the ScopeSim display was close...
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Bob Denny
rdenny@...
Mar 26, 2001 4:39 pm
Pat -- Just back from vacation. The VBS files were quarantined by the Nortel virus protection system. -- FILE QUARANTINED ... This TXT file has automatically...
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Bob Denny
rdenny@...
Mar 26, 2001 7:09 pm
[posted to the Robotic Observatory list, copied to ASCOM-Talk list] I'd like to offer an alternative (not necessarily "better") to reading the ephemeris output...
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Jeff Medkeff
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Mar 26, 2001 7:22 pm
... That will work for the MP Ephemeris Generator, but not for the New Object Ephemeris Generator. My code sample works with the New Object Ephemeris ...
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Steven S Tuma
stuma@...
Mar 27, 2001 2:09 am
I was wondering what a software developer would do to include the ASCOM compliant drivers in his or her software package. The documentation for the SDK...
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Steven S Tuma
stuma@...
Mar 27, 2001 2:11 am
Is anyone currently working on an Ascom compliant driver for the Celestron Ultima telescope. I was thinking about writing one if no one else has started?...
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Bob Denny
rdenny@...
Mar 27, 2001 2:06 pm
Steve -- [original message below] Good questions! In principle, you just distribute the driver components and the...
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Steven S Tuma
stuma@...
Mar 28, 2001 4:21 am
Sounds good to me Bob. I'd rather not have to mess with my installer so having an "ASCOM Telescope Drivers 1.0" installer that you maintain sounds like a...
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Steve Foster
Steve@...
Apr 2, 2001 8:57 am
I was looking to use the NOVAS COM objects for a personal planetarium program but, unlike the USNO C package, the COM objects don't recognise the Sun and Moon...
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Bob Denny
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Apr 3, 2001 3:41 pm
Steve -- NOVAS-COM does support Sun and Moon, but Kepler (which is the ephemeris generator for NOVAS-COM) doesn't. Of course, Sun is just Earth backwards, as ...
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Steve Foster
Steve@...
Apr 3, 2001 4:53 pm
Bob, Thanks for the info. I'd guessed the bit about Earth/Sun reversal but I found Earth co-ordinates always came out as zeros in this co-ordinate system! ...
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Bob Denny
rdenny@...
Apr 3, 2001 7:41 pm
With .NET being mercilessly flogged by Microsoft, it might be a bit scary that we're building on Windows Script. Not so. Windows Script will be around for a ...
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Douglas B. George
dgeorge@...
Apr 4, 2001 8:12 pm
Here is an update to the proposed standardized focuser interface: Properties ... Link Read/Write Set true to connect link to focuser, false to...
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Jeff Medkeff
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Apr 4, 2001 8:59 pm
... Could someone explain why these two items are desirable separately? It seems to me that Position as r/w would be preferable; you could read the position or...
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tedi@...
Apr 5, 2001 11:31 am
Hi Doug, the API looks good. I'm in the process of creating a precision focusser and have already come up with extremely fast and robust autofocus algorithms,...
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Wagner,Rick [CIS-ADS]
rick.wagner@...
Apr 5, 2001 11:39 am
My first question was how to make relative moves for the non-absolute focuser. The comment under the Absolute property seems to address that but the...
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Douglas B. George
dgeorge@...
Apr 5, 2001 1:51 pm
... A good thought. The first focuser I implemented does not have that ability -- the Optec TCF-S will not listen to additional serial commands until it ...
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Douglas B. George
dgeorge@...
Apr 5, 2001 1:51 pm
... In the relative mode, the input to Move is the distance to go, positive or negative. ... I would think the position would be valid only for absolute...
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Bob Denny
rdenny@...
Apr 5, 2001 1:52 pm
I believe the requirements for considering the ASCOM Telescope Driver Interface as an ASCOM Standard have been met. The design has been discussed and refined...
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John Oliver
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Apr 5, 2001 2:45 pm
... Agreed. I have sketched out the implementation for my custom 46cm scope and it seems to fill the bill. -- John Oliver Astronomy Department University of...
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Bob Denny
rdenny@...
Apr 5, 2001 2:55 pm
... For most things, the Telescope driver throws an Automation exception with defined error code (0x80040400) to indicate "not supported". If the feature would...
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Bob Denny
rdenny@...
Apr 5, 2001 3:01 pm
... Without getting into the details of the referenced conversation, I'll sai I strongly agree. The lower level the interface gets, the more device specific ...
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tedi@...
Apr 6, 2001 12:12 pm
I agree with the sentiment of keeping things simple for the application developer. That is the motivation for many of my suggestions. But in light of the...
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Douglas B. George
dgeorge@...
Apr 6, 2001 12:54 pm
... The Optec temp compensation does not lock onto a single position. It moves relative to the current position. So this is not an issue. ... And it will be....
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Bob Denny
rdenny@...
Apr 6, 2001 1:41 pm
... PRO: This is an interesting suggestion. I only wish I could turn the clock back on the Telescope interface :-) The interface would define the ...
