Ascom meade telescope software in Title/Summary

ASCOM Celestron Telescope Driver

nstalls a driver for telescope control systems that speak the Merlin Controls Astronomy Command Language. Please note that there is a specific driver for the COMSOFT PC-TCS control system below. Version 6.0.1 corrects a COM port setup bug, and has sources for building under Platform 6.

• Publisher: Chris Rowland
• Home page: ascom-standards.org
• Last updated: April 25th, 2014

ASCOM AstroPhysics Telescope Driver

The Astro-Physics V2 driver has been developed for Astro-Physics by Ray Gralak of Sirius Imaging. Unlike the earlier driver, this V2 driver is now fully owned and supported by Astro-Physics. It has been through rigorous testing and is being treated as an on-going project. We thank Ajai Sehgal for the first driver, which he developed on his own.

• Publisher: Ray Gralak
• Last updated: February 22nd, 2012

ASCOM Temma Telescope Driver

Temma mounts have numerous different options that can be configured via the driver. Highlight the longitude/latitude input boxes via a double click or left mouse drag to input new values. The mount safety features is not a failsafe way to protect your equipment from damage, and it is not intended to be a substitute for for good judgment or and attendant at the scope.

• Publisher: Chuck Faranda
• Home page: ccdastro.net
• Last updated: February 16th, 2012

Ascom meade telescope software in Description

Autostar Suite

Autostar Suite is a digital astronomy application for your Meade telescope. Main Features: - Select objects from the planetarium display and have your telescope automatically slew to those objects. - Control all Autostar functions from your PC. - Talking Telescope app translates Autostar text to synthesized speech through your PC speaker. - Remote telescope control over the Internet.

• Publisher: Meade Instruments Corporation
• Last updated: March 5th, 2013

EQMOD ASCOMPAD

ASCOMPAD is a free, open source application that provides the ability to control ASCOM compatible Telescope Mounts and Focusers using a standard gamepad. Features: -Focuser operation uses 4 user definable presets to provide different resolutions of movement. -Focuser control can be assigned to buttons or Joystick -Focuser lock to prevent accidental change of focus

• Publisher: EQMOD Project
• Home page: eq-mod.sourceforge.net
• Last updated: February 28th, 2012

Guidemaster

Guidemaster is a tool for the automatic tracking of a telescope on a equatorial mounting by USB-Webcam. Supported cameras for guiding: webcams, SC1,SC2,SC3 modified webcams, Meade LPI camera, all cameras, which either supports VFW or DirectX, shoestring USB adapter for modified webcams, serial interface for modified Webcams, Trifid Nugget Camera from Yankee Robotics and more.

• Publisher: Matthias Garzarolli
• Home page: www.guidemaster.de
• Last updated: August 19th, 2008

ScopeDome Dome USB Driver

ScopeDome Driver is a dome driver’s software compatible with Ascom standard and dedicated for ScopeDomeUSB cards, cooperatating with most popular models of telescopes and sky atlases. It allows to run a fully automated observational sessions. In addition, the driver allows to power and control four devices such as a observatory telescope, a CCD camera, lighting and ventilation.

• Publisher: ScopeDome
• Last updated: November 15th, 2011

TheSky ASCOM Plugin

The TeleAPI plugin provides TheSky X and TheSky 6 with the ability to control telescopes via their ASCOM standard drivers. With this plugin, you can use telescopes not supported internally by TheSky but which have ASCOM drivers. Also, some telescopes have ASCOM drivers that provide enhanced functionality as compared to that provided with the internal support in TheSky.

• Publisher: The ASCOM Initiative
• Home page: ascom-standards.org
• Last updated: March 2nd, 2011

Additional Ascom meade telescope software selection

Eye&Telescope Beobachtungsplaner

Eye&Telescope is a software tool dedicated to deep-sky observers which lets you navigate the sky. Navigate the sky with easy to operate maps. Maps show the objects you can really see, taking visibility criteria into account. No cluttered labels, no duplicate entries, no need to know what catalogs to activate. Starhopping and finding objects in the sky becomes real fun

• Publisher: Oculum-Verlag GmbH
• Home page: www.oculum.de

Software Informer

For this new version, Software Informer has taken a small step back to make a giant leap forward. It has recovered the more compact and smaller interface we all knew and loved without compromising any of its many features and functions. All the updates for your apps and drivers, all the free programs, recommendations, and reviews are still there – they just take less space on your desktop now.

• Publisher: Informer Technologies, Inc.
• Last updated: October 16th, 2024

ASCOM Platform

ASCOM Platform is a free-to-use astronomy application for Windows OS. ASCOM is many-to-many and language-independent architecture, supported by most astronomy devices which connect to Windows computers. The diagram below shows how ASCOM differs from traditional astronomy instrument control architecture.

• Publisher: Ascom Initiative
• Home page: ASCOM-Standards.org
• Last updated: August 15th, 2017

NVIDIA PhysX System Software

We are living with physics games at the moment and for the industry it is not an easy task. The environment is based on a unique set of physics algorithms which require amounts of simultaneous mathematical and logical calculations to make a simple game display. This is where NVIDIA PhysX Technology comes in.

• Publisher: NVIDIA Corporation
• Home page: www.nvidia.com
• Last updated: February 27th, 2017

LightScribe System Software

LightScribe System Software (LSS) facilitates good operation of the LightScribe system. It comes with a handy control panel that allows the user to customize the LightScribe settings and even keep track of the system’s information. The user can double click on the LightScribe icon placed in the system tray on the right lower corner of the Windows desktop screen.

• Publisher: LightScribe
• Home page: lightscribesoftware.org
• Last updated: June 9th, 2014

HNSKY

Hallo Northern Sky, or HNSKY for short, is a planetarium software tool capable of displaying stars up to magnitude 16 in high-quality graphics. With extensive databases containing data on comets, asteroids, 30,000 deep sky objects and 4.5 million stars, this free application is fully compatible with any telescope connected to an ASCOM-compliant interface.

• Publisher: Han Kleijn
• Last updated: March 29th, 2016

Intel (R) PROSet/Wireless Software

The Intel PROSet/Wireless Software is used to set up, edit and manage network profiles to connect to a network. The program features: automatic detection of and connection to wireless access points based on adapter preferences, detection of access point security levels, easy and secure switching between networks, and more.

• Publisher: Intel Corporation
• Last updated: January 12th, 2022

Epson Software Updater

Epson Software Updater is a free-to-use application that allows you to update Epson software as well as download 3rd party applications. It has an intuitive interface. Note: Your Epson product must be turned on and connected to a computer with Internet access.

• Publisher: Epson America, Inc
• Home page: epson.com
• Last updated: April 7th, 2022

Autostar Updater

Autostar Update is an application that functions to transfer the event files and software updates from your computer, through the serial port, USB or Connector Cable Set depending on your telescope model. It is critical that you use the most recent AutoStar Updater to ensure that you get the proper software updates for your system.

• Publisher: Meade Instruments Corp.
• Last updated: November 19th, 2020