Motorized telescope focuser in Title/Summary
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 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
Transportation - motorized
The programs are completely free and easily installed / uninstalled. Shows the many types of jobs that people do - from all walks of life. High tech and low tech, skilled and unskilled, and everything in between. Uses photographs, animations and music.
- Publisher: HiYah
- Home page: www.hiyah.net
- Last updated: December 21st, 2009
Motorized telescope focuser in Description
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
POTH
POTH has many useful features such as traffic logging and its own set of "handset" controls for the telescope, dome, and focuser. There is a detailed help file for POTH, accessible from the Start menu, ASCOM Platform, Scope/Dome hubs. It also has a "quiet" mode which minimizes traffic to and from the driver, useful for ill-behaved driver/controller combinations that might have timing issues
- Publisher: Jon Brewster
- Home page: ascom-standards.org
- Last updated: February 29th, 2012
CCD Commander
CCD Commander will control your CCD camera exposures, your mount movement, and your focuser to completely automate your night's imaging. CCD Commander allows unlimited combinations of these different actions to give you full control of your telescope and camera. The simple to use Graphical User Interface makes these complex configurations very easy to setup.
- Publisher: Matt Thomas
- Last updated: December 23rd, 2015
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
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
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Microsoft WorldWide Telescope
Microsoft WorldWide Telescope is a virtual telescope that lets you browse though the known universe. It can be used at your home, school, or even planetariums. The program provides a comprehensive set of features to help you create seamless displays on single-projector domes or complex, multi-projector domes.
- Publisher: Microsoft Research
- Home page: www.worldwidetelescope.org
- Last updated: August 12th, 2015
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
Meade Classic
Installs a driver for the original Meade LX200 ("classic") telescope mounts (including the 16"), as well as Meade telescopes that use the Autostar I (#495 and #497) controllers, such as the ETX and DS series. This driver provides both telescope and focuser interfaces each of which may be used by separate programs.
- Publisher: The ASCOM Initiative
- Home page: ascom-standards.org
- Last updated: May 31st, 2013
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
Stellarium
Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. Contains a default catalogue of over 80,000 deep-sky objects, extra catalogue with more than 1 million deep-sky objects, and an extra catalogues with more than 177 million stars.
- Publisher: Stellarium team
- Home page: stellarium.org
- Last updated: July 30th, 2024
World Wide Telescope
Want to see the same images that scientists at NASA use for their research or perform your own research with those images? Or do you want to see the Earth from the same perspective that astronauts see as they descend to Earth? How about taking a 5 minute break and viewing a panorama of a different city? Install WWT and start your explorations.
- Publisher: Microsoft
- Home page: www.microsoft.com
- Last updated: August 30th, 2022
Solar System Simulator
SimSolar is a fun and educational solar system simulator. The relative positions of the sun, moon and planets are shown for any date selected. With SimSolar you’ll be able to tilt and rotate the entire system to view from any desired vantage point. Set the system in motion and watch the planets move around their orbits at any speed you select.
- Publisher: Engineering Power Tools Software
- Last updated: March 6th, 2008
BabySitting Mania
There are two main tasks you have to take care of. The first activity is to clean up every mess you find in the room. To clean a mess, first find it and then click on it with the mouse pointer. The second activity is to put the kids in bed before the parents come back home. To put a kid in bed click on it and then click on the bed.
- Publisher: Iplay
- Home page: games.iplay.com
- Last updated: July 6th, 2010