Ascom winpdm in Title/Summary

Ascom WinPDM

The Portable Device Manager (PDM) is an all-in-one portable handset management tool for the FreeNET System. The PDM software application, with a web browser-based environment and USB programming cradle, provides a simple administration process for portable handset subscription and configuration.

• Publisher: ascom
• Last updated: February 7th, 2012

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

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

Ascom winpdm in Description

CCDSoft ASCOM Focuser Plugin

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

• Publisher: The ASCOM Initiative
• Home page: ascom-standards.org
• Last updated: October 20th, 2011

ASCOM Platform - SP3

The ASCOM Initiative is a loosely-knit group of developers and astronomical instrument makers that work together to bring vendor-independent and language-independent plug-and play compatibility between astronomy software and astronomical instruments on Windows computers. ASCOM stands for the Astronomy Common Object Model.

• Publisher: Ascom Initiative
• Home page: ascom-standards.org
• Last updated: November 18th, 2013

PERecorder

PERecorder is a free astronomy sofware that allows easy recording of periodic error of ASCOM-driven mount. It has originally been developped for the EQMOD project,and then adapted to any mount.PERecorder makes use of informations provided by the ASCOM driver, such as target star declination, to simplify user tasks, and provides a real-time display of periodic error curve.

• Publisher: EQMOD
• Last updated: September 3rd, 2011

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

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

Additional Ascom winpdm selection

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
• 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 RoboFocus Focuser Driver

Platform 6 returns to a single installer for the whole platform, removing the need to install an update on top of the core platform and introduces a number of device interface changes to bring consistency to the information available. It also provides new flexibility for client and driver authors to innovate and add their own driver commands without having to release new versions

• Publisher: The ASCOM Initiative
• Home page: ascom-standards.org
• Last updated: April 4th, 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 Video SDK

ASCOM Video SDK can be installed as an SDK that contains the COM interfaces, an IVideo simulator and a client video software with source code in C# .NET. It demonstrates how to use a video driver to render and record a video and to control a video camera.

• Publisher: Hristo Pavlov
• Home page: www.hristopavlov.net
• Last updated: February 10th, 2014

ASCOM OptecPyxis Rotator Driver

The Pyxis LE Rotator is a USB 2.0 device and requires a different driver than the original Pyxis 2" and 3" camera field rotators. Driver with advanced setup options for the Pyxis LE Camera Field Rotator. Includes standalone program, ASCOM driver, and expanded help file.

• Publisher: Optec,Inc.
• Home page: www.optecinc.com
• Last updated: April 4th, 2012

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
• Home page: www.hnsky.org
• Last updated: March 29th, 2016

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

DSLR Focus

DSLR Focus takes a series of exposures as fast as the camera will allow either automatically or at your command. You then scroll around the image and find a suitable star to use as your focus star.Place the crosshairs on the star click the mouse to select it. At this point a focus analysis window will open that will perform analysis on the selected star.

• Publisher: Chris Venter
• Last updated: August 27th, 2008

MetaGuide

MetaGuide is a multi-function telescope autoguiding and collimating tool based on real-time image processing of a video stream. All it takes is a video camera (USB, Firewire, etc.), or an analog video camera (NTSC or PAL) connected to a video2usb converter. For guiding, you need either an ASCOM connection, GPUSB, TOGA, QHY, ASI, AstroGene, or LPT port interface.

• Publisher: Frank Freestar8n
• Home page: www.astrogeeks.com
• Last updated: May 26th, 2020