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I've been contemplating adding telescope control to my Pocket PC product "Pocket Stars" (http://www.nomadelectronics.com) for some time now, but of course...
... Not being familiar with Pocket Windows, what would stop one from using the existing drivers? This may be a stupid question. ... Drivers can be EXEs. Are...
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Steven S Tuma
sttuma@...
May 7, 2002 2:48 am
Bob, eVB is limited in what you can do. I wrote Pocket Deepsky using eVB and used my own NON ASCOM telescope code since with eVB you are limited to using only...
Steve -- Ah, OK, that explains it. So if they omitted all of VB's object-oriented features in eVB, I wonder if there are any restrictions in the OS itself that...
Hello all -- I have completed a beta of the update to the ASCOM Meade LX200 and Autostar driver that handles the new Autostar II in the LX200 GPS telescopes....
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Th.Pfleger@...
May 7, 2002 6:01 pm
Dear Ascom community! Currently I'm conducting some experiments with the ASCOM Telescope interface. Since I do no own a computer controlled telescope I...
Post your code. The Simulator doesn's use the serial port. Set s = CreateObject("ScopeSim.Telescope") WScript.Echo s.RightAscension See the ASCOm Site, Getting...
Hi, Sorry if this sounds stupid. But I do use SNP with the generic LX200 driver. For this update, I understand where I need to put the file when unzipping...
Sorry. I have the 10" LX200GPS ... LX200 driver. For this update, I understand where I need to put the file when unzipping it. The question I have is will...
Not at all stupid :-) Good question. You also need to select the Meade LX200 and Autostar driver instead of the generic. Once you go to 1.2b of the firmware,...
... from using the existing drivers? This may be a stupid question." Jay: PocketPCs use (currently) three different processors, none of which are x86...
Greetings -- Shortly after releasing the beta ASCOM driver with the new LX200 GPS support, the folks at Diffraction Limited (developers of MaxIm DL image...
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Th.Pfleger@...
May 8, 2002 7:32 pm
Dear Bob! After some experimentation the Scope Simulator slewed. Unparking did the miracle ;_) Since this seems to work fine I'll soon try a real scope....
Hi, In reviewing the source for the serial helper lib, it appears that one cannot send pure binary data using that lib. As I understand the code, it will take...
The serial device TransmitBinary() and ReceiveByte() functions do full binary I/O as described in the helper library document DriverHelper.chm. See the MNCP...
Ahh, right you are! I can't believe I missed that! thanks for the info. Follow-up question: In my device code, I do the following: for all bytes in command...
Ted -- Are you implementing Astronomy Control Language (ACL)? Your single-character I/O idea would be extremely inefficient. I would strongly discourage you...
ok, I'm clearly missing important things here. I'm supporting ASCOM for the device. I thought the idea behind ASCOM was to provide a standard API for hardware...
We need to talk on the phone. The bandwidth required to answer your question exceeds that which is practical for email/list. It will be much more efficient to...
John -- The separate telescope window was a decision arrived at jointly by myself and the folks at SPACE.com. The fundamental issue is synchronization of ...
This isn't directly ASCOM related but it will be as soon as I starting working on the COM interface. I'm using a set of serial stepper motor drivers to move my...
... No kidding! Plus, windows is not a really great real-time operating system, so if you're looking for predictable subsecond responses to external hardware...
I would think you'd be better off with a helper module that encapsulates the variables, rather than exposing a bunch of globals. The added benefit, since...
I'm no programmer, I just dabble, so I hope my presence does not offend. I am using MS VB6. Can someone please direct me to or provide me with vb code...
David -- Welcome!! And the only bad question is one you -don't- ask :-)) ... When you installed the ASCOM Platform, did you check that "developer info" option...
Thanks Bob, Got all that stuff and can actually connect but different things happen at different times. On the simulator, it remains connected all the time...
My trig is pretty rusty so could someone please point me to the formula to generate Alt/Az from RA/Dec given Latitude and Sidereal time (and vice versa) Thanks...
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Gordon G. Spear
gordon.spear@...
May 21, 2002 8:00 pm
I have found that the best source for this kind of thing is Astronomical Algorithms by Jean Meeus (Willmann-Bell, Inc.). However, don't things like this...
I am using scope.SiderealTime and the result returned from the scope simulator is not right (I haven't tested this on my LX-90 properly yet). It's counting at...
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