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...
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Martin Merriman
mmerriman1
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...
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astrooptik
topsurfi
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...
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Bob Denny
dc3dreamer
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...
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Bob Denny
dc3dreamer
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....
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astrooptik
topsurfi
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 ...
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Bob Denny
dc3dreamer
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 ...
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Matthew L. Bisque
mbisque
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...
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astrooptik
topsurfi
Apr 2, 2002 4:41 pm
... yes, I think a lot here would love that. ... OK, sorry for that, my fault. Philipp...
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Bob Denny
dc3dreamer
Apr 4, 2002 12:42 am
This may be of interest to several of you... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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John Oliver
oliver_astro...
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...
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Bob Denny
dc3dreamer
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. --...
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romo209
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...
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Bob Denny
dc3dreamer
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...
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astrooptik
topsurfi
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...
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linden_dave
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...
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Bob Denny
dc3dreamer
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 ...
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Bob Denny
dc3dreamer
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...
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Bob Denny
dc3dreamer
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...
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Jeff Medkeff
jeffmedkeff
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! ... ...
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linden_dave
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...
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astrooptik
topsurfi
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...
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Bob Denny
dc3dreamer
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...
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Jeff Medkeff
jeffmedkeff
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...
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Douglas B. George
maximccd
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...
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Bob Denny
dc3dreamer
Apr 9, 2002 4:15 pm
... This one ought to go on the ASCOM home page! :-)) -- Bob...
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Bob Denny
dc3dreamer
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...
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Bob Denny
dc3dreamer
Apr 9, 2002 5:18 pm
If you are concerned about receiving unsolicited electronic, telephone, and paper mail promotional contacts (who isn't??), please read on. Yahoo! has expanded...
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Jeff Medkeff
jeffmedkeff
Apr 10, 2002 12:17 am
Widgets 3.0.3 is released, freeware as always. The new version adds the following features, all added due to user requests: - A rigorous precession engine. -...
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Dennis K. McLeod
dmcleod@...
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,...
