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Tim, Jim & Bob, Thanx for your replys. I do have the basic G11 with the drives. The only "extra" is the polar scope. I'm just "used to using SN to control my...
... If all that's true, why do you need to route FF past the Telescope driver in order to focus? That's what FocusMax won't be able to do. It focuses through...
I was very excited to find a standards group for computer controlled telescopes. This initiative should not be restricted to a proprietary operating system. I...
Misha, I don't believe that any specific documents are written for windows. The only "windows" based files used are the help files that are windows ".chm"...
Misha, while the Windows Help File Format (.chm) is certainly native to Windows, I think you'll find that there is no shortage of viewers for Macintosh and...
A friend just bought MaxIm and has what is supposed to be a beta ASCOM compatible AstroPlanner. So I guess he is past the toying stage. We shall see ;>) Jim...
... AstroPlanner V2 (current in the last throes of beta) does indeed have ASCOM support as an option, but for Windows only. Mac users have to use the built-in...
I think you will find that the ASCOM bit is Windows only, I'm fairly certain there are no Mac ASCOM drivers yet. However, if we could get ASCOM-Cross proxy...
I have been having some problems with getting Cartes du Ciel running with a Vista laptop and usb/serial dongle. The laptop is a HP TX2500z running Vista Home...
Hi, Antonio, sorry you're having problems. I don't use POTH to slave my dome, but the app I wrote to do that uses the same underlying algorithms. In fact, I...
Hello group, I wonder whether someone can help me here. I'm working on a VB.Net application that connects to my CCD Camera through CCDSoft and to my Optec...
Antoine, It sounds like your trying to connect your focuser twice. Once through CCD Soft and the second time through ASCOM with your custom application. You...
How we're building the next ASCOM Platform... http://community.tigranetworks.co.uk/blogs/tim_long/default.aspx Best regards, Microsoft Most Valuable...
Hi Bruce, Thank you very much for your answer. I think that I took good care measuring the offsets to establish the POTH parameters, but I cannot be sure they...
Hi all, Anyone knows if the park / unpark function is working with precision on LX200 Classic On my telescope it seems that after the unpark procedure the...
Yes, it works really well. My LX-200 Classic is permanently set up in an observatory and it maintains alignment for many weeks or months without any need for...
Hi Tim This is very encouraging, but from the other hands I wonder what I am doing wrong. Of course I don't move the scope after the parking. I will briefly...
Robert, Thanks to give me hand there. Actually, I just control CCDSoft from my application to take images, download them and use the data to run focusing...
Tim, Thanks for the update, and thanks for taking on this task. Making .NET v3.5 a requirement will remove ASCOM support for Windows 2000. As far as I know,...
I suspect that this is absolutely no use to you but I'll ask anyway. Maybe I'll leanr something. Are you requesting focuser position thru the main application...
Thank you Jim for your inputs. Yes I do request the focuser position to update the control panel through a MainApplication.FocuserPosition public property,...
Antoine, It is hard to debug from afar, but my next question is are you sure your second form is not creating its own instance of the driver? If the main form...
George, that procedure all sounds fine. Two questions: 1. Polar or Altaz? 2. How many degrees is "some degrees"? Can we quantify it? --Tim ... From:...
I know there are mixed feelings on this subject, but there has to be a balance between supporting older OSes and updating the platform to adopt more modern...
... Tim, I don't know if that statement is true. Microsoft ended free support of XP on April 14th, 2009. Should ASCOM developers end support for XP? (I hope no...
Evening group, I recently (tonight) upgraded my obs PC. While the PC was be built in my shop I updated the ASCOM platform with 5.0 from 4.1. Everytime I try to...
Well, that's why I said "more-or-less". Windows XP is still available preinstalled on new PCs e.g. from Dell. The rest of that discussion, for me it's all...
Rodney Did you update the MaxDome driver when you downloaded the ASCOM platform. All of the ASCOM drivers used to be downloaded with the ASCOM platform. With...
Tim, ... All I'm saying is that I think it might not be a good move for ASCOM to remove support for older operating systems based on Microsoft's plans (and/or...
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