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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 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
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
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
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
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
Developer Samples Sources - ASCOM Alpaca The ASCOM Platform 6 contains developer templates for Visual Studio and all types of drivers in both C# NET and VisualBasic NET If you're developing a driver using NET, it is strongly recommended that you use the relevant template
ASCOM General Requirements In order to be called "ASCOM compliant", a driver or application must meet all of the applicable guidelines in this document Only then may a driver, interface, or an application's packaging and user interface, carry the ASCOM logo
DeviceHub - Universal Hub and Analysis Tool - ASCOM There is a detailed help file for DeviceHub, accessible from the Start menu and DeviceHub's Help menu You can find DeviceHub under the Windows Start Button, ASCOM Platform, Scope-Dome Hubs We have Hall of Famer Rick Burke to thank for DeviceHub Let's look at a block diagram of a typical usage: Dome Azimuth Slaving