HI All, Thanks a lot for pndering your thoughts along with your busy schedules. My idea is to use webservices(XML,WSDL,UDDI) under Linux for controlling the...
If I understand correctly you want to use xephem as a "command processor" and not directly implement lx200 protocol in Java to manage telescope. Why not, nice ...
Hi There, No xephem will not act as a comman processor infact lx200 daemon will be a command processor and commands will be generated by a JAVA program. I ...
As this conversation is veering quickly off topic, may I suggest you try the Astro-Programming group (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Astroprg/). You may find...
... No, admin rights are not needed. Instead, start from the user's rights. Make sure that there are no security hashes or policies. Make sure that the...
It looks to me like a registry permission problem. I would check that the user has rights to access the ASCOM registry area. Do this by running RegEdit,...
Greetings, I am not sure if this is the right forum or not, but I have a few questions about the ASCOM driver for the Meade 1209 Zero Image Shift Microfouser....
Another option is to add an encoder to the Microfocuser. There are products that can do this and allow the associated ASCOM driver to do its thing. Email me...
Tom, It all depends on which autofocusing software is driving the ASCOM driver. There are many very happy Meade 1209 users that use the ASCOM driver and...
I think Tom was trying to find out if the Meade 1209 is capable of making small enough steps to focus an SCT at F6.3 within the Critical Focus Zone ? From...
Chris, There is no simple answer to your question. First there is spin up and spin down time, ( about 100 ms ). However FocusMax adjusts accordingly for...
Tom -- I just zeroed in on what you're trying to do (as opposed to the question you asked! :-))... what kind of camera are you going to try DSLR Focus with? If...
Bob, DSLR Focus only works with DSLR Cameras. I have a version 3 of DSLR Focus comming out shortly that is ASCOM compliant with scope control,focuser control. ...
Wow, Chris!!! I had no idea... sounds like you're on the right track! And thanks VERY much for adopting the ASCOM driver model for telescope and focuser...
Is there a driver for this mount? Doug ... Doug George dgeorge@... Diffraction Limited Makers of Cyanogen Imaging Products http://www.cyanogen.com 25...
... No. As yet, Vixen have not released any details of the network interface, and the guider input does not work. However there is a rumour, that a new code ...
I am considering upgrading my 6’ Homedome. What I am looking for is a robustly engineered dome that will lend itself to be run robotically and hold my 14”...
When trying to load the Helper.DLL in VB.Net, I an encountering errors in trying to add the dll to my project (A reference to ...\Helper.dll could not be...
Hi everybody, I am trying to create an ASCOM runtime wrapper class library for all the ASCOM Interfaces. With C#,I can't get the return object of the...
You might be interested in my ASCOM .net Developer Framework. This is a set of .net assemblies that makes it easier to use late bound ASCOM drivers from .net...
Check out the tools I already created at http://syd.tigranetworks.co.uk/ASCOMdotNet/Default.aspx While this is very much a work-in-progress, it is more than...
Thank you Tim, that seems to be an excellent work! I will read it with much interest. I hope that will help me. ... wrapper ... ASCOM ... class ... details of ...
BTW, anyone who's developing in .net might be interested to know that some of the Visual Studio 2005 languages are now in public beta, along with the .Net...
I learned long ago not to install MS betas. I'm not a bleeding-edge kind of guy :-) I'll wait till it's past the first few "service packs". I'm very glad I...
If you install it under Microsoft's VirtualPC (Available from the MSDN Site), you can run it on the same machine as vs2003 ... that ... along ... stuff ... ...
I'd reconsider. the number of C Library API's (e.g., _atoi) have been marked depreciated. Even StrSafe.h has depreciated calls. They've literally said screw...
I've installed in a production environment with 2003 without any bleed over. _____ From: an_astronut [mailto:mtrooney@...] Sent: Wednesday, July 21,...
Hi everybody, He would be more judicious for our future readers to open another post about the Microsoft's updates. Somebody has it infos concerning the...