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ASCOM Platform Standard for
Astronomy
ASCOM (AStronomy
Common Object Model) is an open initiative to provide a
standard interface to a range of astronomy equipment
including mounts, focusers and imaging devices in a
Microsoft Windows environment.
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The EQMOD
Project
The EQMOD project
consists of a suite of open source applications that can
provide an alternative to the hand controller on
supported German Equatorial
Mounts. There are some
comprises of a suite of applications:
EQASCOM;
EQMOSAIC;
EQTOUR;
EQMODLX;
PERECORDER;
PECPrep;
ASCOMPAD.
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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. The planetarium
allow to used some plug-in like: telescope control,
Oculars, Field of View and so on.
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STELLARIUM SCOPE
StellariumScope is a
free add-on that enables you to control your telescope
with Stellarium planetarium program. StellariumScope
provides the interface between Stellarium and the ASCOM
telescope drivers; provides the ability to both "Sync"
and "Slew" the telescope. It's also possible to issue a
stop/cancel command from Stellarium. |
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CANON EOS
UTILITY
EOS Utility is an
application that brings together functions to
communicate with the camera. These functions include
downloading and displaying images, remote shooting, and
camera control for each setting. |
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PHD GUIDING
PHD Guiding is a
simple, powerful and intelligent software for
auto-guiding. In PHD Guiding, all calibration is taken
care of automatically. You do not need to tell it
anything about the orientation of your camera, or image
scale. The automatic calibration routine takes care of
this for you. |
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