- ASCOM - Standards for Astronomy
The ASCOM Initiative provides an extensive set of tools, libraries, templates, samples, and documentation to help developers get started The focus is on C# and Python, both are modern, high-level, and cross platform
- Download Center - ASCOM
Download Center This page lists items that the ASCOM Initiative has made available for download The ASCOM Platform is required for most of the drivers and other components It contains a set of common interfaces, engines, and tools that are used to support most ASCOM drivers and other components
- Telescope Mount Drivers - ASCOM - Standards
This ASCOM driver allows the use of a variety of commercial and homebrew passive encoder-based digital setting circles systems with any Windows software that supports the ASCOM standard
- 1. About ASCOM and Alpaca
ASCOM is the general name for enabling technology based on universal connectivity between astronomy apps programs and the devices they use ASCOM has thus opened up astronomy software innovation by eliminating the need to write special code for each device
- Documentation Center - ASCOM
If you want to learn about ASCOM, including why it exists, what it does for astronomy technology, its computing and design roots, and where it's going in the future, this is where to go
- Applications - Getting Started - ASCOM
The following script, written in the JScript language, shows how simple it is to control a telescope using ASCOM COM on Windows We use the Telescope Simulator, part of the ASCOM Platform
- Frequently Asked Questions - ASCOM
ASCOM (both COM and Alpaca) is a many-to-many universal interfacing system with no dependence on any software or central server Alpaca is cross-platform, COM is Windows-only
- Developer Tools - ASCOM
This tool performs a comprehensive set of tests on a driver to determine its conformance with the relevant ASCOM interface standard It also tests some aspects of driver behavior against the reference implementation
|