I recently bought a Meade LX90 LNT instrument which the vendor supplied with Starry Night Pro V4.x (With ASCOM telescope control built in). I thought it was a...
I am seeking to embed a star map functionality in a home-built scheduling programme based on Ascom and Excel-VB. Does anyone know of an interface I can use...
I'm not really clear on exactly what you want to do, but... Cartes du Ciel (a free program) can be controlled via DDE (and thus via from VBA) It's docs say, ...
SOunds like what I need. So I should ask them I suppose. There will be a Yahoo group I expect! Jamie ... via ... give ... Talk@yahoogroups.com] On ... of an ...
Some time ago I (almost) successfully worked through the procedures to use NOVAS-COM for my own calculations. It turned out, that it could not calculate the...
I have the USNO code and it is well documented for things that I missed in the NOVAS-COM help file. However it's not the USNO part that I'm struggling with,...
for some time I have been using ascom drivers to control my Meade lx200 scope but after almost tree monts of not using my scope because the cloudy time...
I am not sure how to connect to the telescope via maxim and ascom. I am running VB. I connect throough ascom to the CCD of choice. I then initiate Maxim to...
... (1) What kind of meade scope? (2) What firmware version? (3) What do you mean "can't connect" - Is there an error message? If so what is it? If not, what...
Robert -- ... I'd be happy to pass along the code for NOVAS and Kepler :-) It's mostly my wrappers on public code and I donated both to the ASCOM effort. At a ...
lx200gps latest firmware no visible error message in SNP .. you click the 'connect' button and instead of that morphing into a 'disconnect' button as it...
I received a replacement file from Imaginova, which was emailed to me on 10/01/05. The file is named AscomScope.plug 94,208 bytes. Under properties, it...
Hello all, I'm new to this group, and I'm hoping someone can help me with the problem I'm having connecting my intelliscope to Deepsky Astronomy software. What...
Aaron -- Just so I understand -- You upgraded to SNP 5.7 and your telescope control still worked OK... Then some time after that, you upgraded the driver to ...
I have a somewhat newer version of the Intelliscope driver that I can send you. I will email you off-list so that you can contact me directly. I'm not sure...
Peter, Can you also email me off-list? I have an Intelliscope and would love to use DAS directly. Short term I use DAS to develop a plan, and then use Cartes...
Hi, I am writing a little utility program that runs with Maxim and FocusMax. I want it to connect to Maxim and FocusMax, do some readings, then disconnect from...
Am I right, as an Ascom coding newbie, there seems to me to be two ways of writing observing code: First would be to set off an action, such as a slew, and...
There's no easy answer to that and both techniques have their time and place, but here's my personal opinion. I am a firm advocate of event-driven software but...
Thanks Could you give me any hints, or better still, links to example codes which point out the pitfalls (pratfalls) and best practice. What I had in mind was...
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If you go to http://syd.tigranetworks.co.uk and download my Digital DomeWorks driver, the source code is included. (Source is C# and requires visual studio...