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799 hjscm94002 Send Email Apr 2, 2002
2:55 am
i have starry night pro and installed everything except when tring to install telescope control the drivers wern't signed so i could not install it. went to...
800 Martin Merriman
mmerriman1 Send Email
Apr 2, 2002
7:53 am
Yes, there are a few other options. Eiger Labs has a PCMCIA Serial Adapter Card that adds another serial port to your laptop through the pcmcia slot, you can...
801 astrooptik
topsurfi Send Email
Apr 2, 2002
8:11 am
... thank you ! I just thought about another possibility. I could write a driver (ActiveX dll) that works with the "Telescope API) from TheSky and has the...
802 Bob Denny
dc3dreamer Send Email
Apr 2, 2002
1:16 pm
I have been very pleased with the Quatech PCMCIA serial cards. THey are truly plug and play. You can plug in the card and COM5/6 magically appear. Stop and...
803 Bob Denny
dc3dreamer Send Email
Apr 2, 2002
1:23 pm
Phillipp -- I need some clarification -- Is your focuser is a separate RS-232 device? If so, then you will always need a separate RS-232 port to talk to it....
804 astrooptik
topsurfi Send Email
Apr 2, 2002
2:10 pm
... it is not a seperat RS232 device. Both the focuser and the movement of the telescope, (Ra, Dec and Rotator) are controlled with my software on another ...
805 Bob Denny
dc3dreamer Send Email
Apr 2, 2002
3:42 pm
... Yes, indeed! This is the correct way to handle two devices that use the same physical connection. Put both .cls files into a single VB project, move the ...
806 Matthew L. Bisque
mbisque Send Email
Apr 2, 2002
4:14 pm
Dear Phillipp, ... The TeleAPI is a much lower level driver than COM. Perhaps a COM implementation of the TeleAPI would be helpful? ... The TeleAPI does...
807 astrooptik
topsurfi Send Email
Apr 2, 2002
4:41 pm
... yes, I think a lot here would love that. ... OK, sorry for that, my fault. Philipp...
808 Bob Denny
dc3dreamer Send Email
Apr 4, 2002
12:42 am
This may be of interest to several of you... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
809 John Oliver
oliver_astro... Send Email
Apr 4, 2002
12:48 am
... This message seems to have no content -- John Oliver Department of Astronomy University of Florida Associate Chairman,Graduate and Undergraduate...
810 Bob Denny
dc3dreamer Send Email
Apr 4, 2002
4:30 am
See one reason why I truly -hate- HTML email????? It is gratuitous fluff in most cases, and you end up with the body being treated as an attachment... ugh. --...
811 romo209 Send Email Apr 7, 2002
10:00 pm
Hello, Has anyone written a Telescope driver that will interface the Losmandy/Sky Commander DSC's? Is this a reasonable thing to do? I'm thinking that a driver...
812 Bob Denny
dc3dreamer Send Email
Apr 8, 2002
7:19 am
... Not to my knowledge. ... Yes it is indeed. ... Yes, sir. ... It can! No one has done it, but it is possible. You make a Windows Script Component. Use the...
813 astrooptik
topsurfi Send Email
Apr 8, 2002
10:53 am
Hi, I have written a driver based on the Ascom ACL driver dll to controll the focuser AND the telescope. So I have a driver now (philipp.dll) that has a class...
814 linden_dave Send Email Apr 8, 2002
5:58 pm
... I submitted the question to ASCOM and hopefully they will reply. If anyone has tried to use the LX200 GPS with Deepsky and failed, let me know. I am...
815 Bob Denny
dc3dreamer Send Email
Apr 8, 2002
10:16 pm
Dave -- The LX200GPS (actually the Autostar 2) has a different command set than the LX200 or the Autostar 1. I wrote the Meade LX200 and Autostar driver, and ...
816 Bob Denny
dc3dreamer Send Email
Apr 8, 2002
10:43 pm
Philipp -- ... Congratulations! IN theory (!!, see below)I would create a SINGLE instance of the MNCP object, store a global pointer to it in a module, then...
817 Bob Denny
dc3dreamer Send Email
Apr 8, 2002
11:16 pm
The following is my response to a message posted by Jeff Medkeff on the DC-3 Support list. Since the subject is that of the behavior of the ASCOM ACL driver, I...
818 Jeff Medkeff
jeffmedkeff Send Email
Apr 9, 2002
12:35 am
At 04:15 PM 4/8/2002 -0700, you wrote: So the first-order answer to my question is "its the telescope driver" and "it isn't in the ACL spec." Ok, thanks! ... ...
819 linden_dave Send Email Apr 9, 2002
3:06 am
Bob, There's no way that I would ever admitt to knowing anything about Visual Basic. That being said I'll also say that I'm a quick learned and I have...
820 astrooptik
topsurfi Send Email
Apr 9, 2002
6:50 am
... hmm, I think that is then about the same as I did. I have put the hole MNCP stuff in a module where both the telescope and the focuser class are working...
821 Bob Denny
dc3dreamer Send Email
Apr 9, 2002
10:58 am
... Heh heh... I think you missed my quasi-joke: Due to the hack of my -returning- the system time as Telescope.UTCDate, then changing Telescope.UTCDate would...
822 Jeff Medkeff
jeffmedkeff Send Email
Apr 9, 2002
3:21 pm
... Oh - ok, I getcha. Yes, I see what you mean. ... It is already to their economic and competitive advantage to do it; look at all the software that already...
823 Douglas B. George
maximccd Send Email
Apr 9, 2002
3:40 pm
I just had a customer call looking for Temma mount support. Is there an ASCOM driver for Temma, or is someone out there writing one? Thanks, Doug ... Doug...
824 Bob Denny
dc3dreamer Send Email
Apr 9, 2002
4:15 pm
... This one ought to go on the ASCOM home page! :-)) -- Bob...
825 Bob Denny
dc3dreamer Send Email
Apr 9, 2002
4:36 pm
... So we need to try to get Gene Horr on board! Apparently he writes in VB and knows the Tak/Temma protocol. I'm going to call these people now. It's been a...
826 Bob Denny
dc3dreamer Send Email
Apr 9, 2002
5:18 pm
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827 Jeff Medkeff
jeffmedkeff Send Email
Apr 10, 2002
12:17 am
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828 Dennis K. McLeod
dmcleod@... Send Email
Apr 11, 2002
2:56 pm
Bob: Where is the site for the new NexStar command ? Nothing appears in your e-mail Thanks Dennis ... From: Bob Denny [mailto:rdenny@...] Sent: Wednesday,...
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