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Telescope Control moved to Telescope Control (client-server): archiving the old page, the information is obsolete

Barrykgerdes: /* Overview */

2010-03-11T21:59:53Z

Overview

Barrykgerdes at 21:58, 11 March 2010

2010-03-11T21:58:23Z

Barrykgerdes at 21:57, 11 March 2010

2010-03-11T21:57:57Z

Barrykgerdes: /* Introduction */

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Introduction

Barrykgerdes: /* Overview */

2010-03-11T21:46:09Z

Overview

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Daggerstab: /* Overview */ more details

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Overview: more details

Matthewg42 at 01:03, 5 September 2009

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-'''Note: version 0.10.0 of Stellarium does not include the key bindings for telescope control. The telescope control feature was being re-worked and was re-introduced in 0.10.1. If you want to use telescope control, but can't run versions 0.10.1 and later, you can use version 0.9.1.'''
+==Introduction==
-''' From version 0.10.3 Telescope control plugins became an integral component of Stellarium and from 0.10.4 Stellarium should work on most platforms where control has been refined to be as simple as possible.'''
+Note: this feature was not included in version 0.10.0. It was re-introduced in 0.10.1. If you want to use telescope control, but can't run versions 0.10.1 and later, you can use version 0.9.1.
-−
-==Introduction==
-In this page I describe the telescope control feature that is present in Stellarium since version 0.8.1.
 ===Overview===
-Although Stellarium is currently (since version 0.8.1) able to control any telescope using a suitable external telescope server program. From version 0.10.3 the existing Stellarium telescope control programs are included in the plugin heading of the configuration menu. Instructions for acitvation are included in the help file
+Although Stellarium is currently (since version 0.8.1) able to control any telescope using a suitable external telescope server program, up to now there exist only the following telescope servers:
-−
-Up to now there exist only the following telescope servers:
 '''Open Source telescope servers'''
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 These programs are supported by us:
-* TelescopeServerDummy: can be used for testing and as a starting point for developing new telescope servers, no telescope is required
+* TelescopeServerDummy(.exe): can be used for testing and as a starting point for developing new telescope servers, no telescope is required.
-* TelescopeServerDummy.exe: same for MS Windows
+* TelescopeServerLx200(.exe): used for controlling Meade LX200 or AutoStar telescopes, G11 or compatible.
-* TelescopeServerLx200: used for controlling Meade LX200 or AutoStar telescopes, G11 or compatible
+* TelescopeServerNexStar(.exe): used for controlling Celestron NexStar telescopes, contributed by Michael Heinz
-* TelescopeServerLx200.exe: same for MS Windows
-* TelescopeServerNexStar: used for controlling Celestron NexStar telescopes, contributed by Michael Heinz
-* TelescopeServerNexStar.exe: same for MS Windows
-* Argo Navis which is a setting circle kit for Dobsonian telescopes. It requires manually moving the telescope to the selected object.
 * Wrappers for the [http://rts2.org/ Remote Telescope System] protocol, contributed by Petr Kubanek. These don't work in the same way as the rest, so for instructions, refer to [http://stellarium.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/stellarium/trunk/telescope_server/src/README.rts2 their README file].
-** TelescopeServerRTS2: can be used to control through XML-RPC any telescopes supported by the RTS2 project
+** TelescopeServerRTS2(.exe): can be used to control through XML-RPC any telescopes supported by the RTS2 project
-** TelescopeServerRTS2.exe: same for MS Windows
 '''Closed Source telescope servers'''
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 Programs that cannot be supported by us, because we do not have the source code:
-* '''[http://www.welshdragoncomputing.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=31&Itemid=39F StellariumScope]''' is a program for MS Windows allowing Stellarium to control a variety of telescopes using the [http://ascom-standards.org ASCOM] drivers. Extends capabilities to include both "Slew" and "Sync" functions, and automated installation and setup (no need to edit configuration files). Initially developed by [http://www.ByteArts.com/stellarium ByteArts]. ''Formerly known as "StellariumServer"''.
+* '''[http://www.welshdragoncomputing.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=31&Itemid=39F StellariumScope]''' is a program for MS Windows allowing Stellarium to control a variety of telescopes using the '''[http://ascom-standards.org ASCOM]''' drivers. Extends capabilities to include both "Slew" and "Sync" functions, and automated installation and setup (no need to edit configuration files). Initially developed by [http://www.ByteArts.com/stellarium ByteArts]. ''Formerly known as "StellariumServer"''.
-* '''[http://www.iceinspace.com.au/63-581-0-0-1-0.html HEQ5/EQ6]''' is a method of adapting StellariumScope to version 0.10.4 of Stellarium to the HEQ5/EQ6 type Equatorial mount Written by Karl Van Louwersen
 * '''[http://www.tonybarry.net/tonybarry/Software.html StellLXTSRB]''' is a telescope server for Mac OS X, developed by Tony Barry. It has been used successfully with a '''Meade ETX-80''' and an '''LX-90'''. According to its author, it will possibly work with any LX-emulating telescope.

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 * '''[http://www.welshdragoncomputing.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=31&Itemid=39F StellariumScope]''' is a program for MS Windows allowing Stellarium to control a variety of telescopes using the [http://ascom-standards.org ASCOM] drivers. Extends capabilities to include both "Slew" and "Sync" functions, and automated installation and setup (no need to edit configuration files). Initially developed by [http://www.ByteArts.com/stellarium ByteArts]. ''Formerly known as "StellariumServer"''.
-* '''[http://www.iceinspace.com.au/63-581-0-0-1-0.html HEQ5/EQ6]''' is a method of adapting Stellariumscope to version 0.10.4 of Stellarium to the HEQ5/EQ6 type Equatorial mount Written by Karl Van Louwersen
+* '''[http://www.iceinspace.com.au/63-581-0-0-1-0.html HEQ5/EQ6]''' is a method of adapting StellariumScope to version 0.10.4 of Stellarium to the HEQ5/EQ6 type Equatorial mount Written by Karl Van Louwersen
 * '''[http://www.tonybarry.net/tonybarry/Software.html StellLXTSRB]''' is a telescope server for Mac OS X, developed by Tony Barry. It has been used successfully with a '''Meade ETX-80''' and an '''LX-90'''. According to its author, it will possibly work with any LX-emulating telescope.

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	'''Note: version 0.10.0 of Stellarium does not include the key bindings for telescope control. The telescope control feature was being re-worked and was re-introduced in 0.10.1. If you want to use telescope control, but can't run versions 0.10.1 and later, you can use version 0.9.1.'''		'''Note: version 0.10.0 of Stellarium does not include the key bindings for telescope control. The telescope control feature was being re-worked and was re-introduced in 0.10.1. If you want to use telescope control, but can't run versions 0.10.1 and later, you can use version 0.9.1.'''
		+
	''' From version 0.10.3 Telescope control plugins became an integral component of Stellarium and from 0.10.4 Stellarium should work on most platforms where control has been refined to be as simple as possible.'''		''' From version 0.10.3 Telescope control plugins became an integral component of Stellarium and from 0.10.4 Stellarium should work on most platforms where control has been refined to be as simple as possible.'''

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	'''Note: version 0.10.0 of Stellarium does not include the key bindings for telescope control. The telescope control feature was being re-worked and was re-introduced in 0.10.1. If you want to use telescope control, but can't run versions 0.10.1 and later, you can use version 0.9.1.'''		'''Note: version 0.10.0 of Stellarium does not include the key bindings for telescope control. The telescope control feature was being re-worked and was re-introduced in 0.10.1. If you want to use telescope control, but can't run versions 0.10.1 and later, you can use version 0.9.1.'''
		+	''' From version 0.10.3 Telescope control plugins became an integral component of Stellarium and from 0.10.4 Stellarium should work on most platforms where control has been refined to be as simple as possible.'''

	==Introduction==		==Introduction==

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 * '''[http://www.welshdragoncomputing.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=31&Itemid=39F StellariumScope]''' is a program for MS Windows allowing Stellarium to control a variety of telescopes using the [http://ascom-standards.org ASCOM] drivers. Extends capabilities to include both "Slew" and "Sync" functions, and automated installation and setup (no need to edit configuration files). Initially developed by [http://www.ByteArts.com/stellarium ByteArts]. ''Formerly known as "StellariumServer"''.
-* '''http://www.iceinspace.com.au/63-581-0-0-1-0.html''' is a method of adapting Stellarium scope to version 0.10.4 of Stellarium Written by Karl Van Louwersen
+* '''[http://www.iceinspace.com.au/63-581-0-0-1-0.html HEQ5/EQ6]''' is a method of adapting Stellariumscope to version 0.10.4 of Stellarium to the HEQ5/EQ6 type Equatorial mount Written by Karl Van Louwersen
 * '''[http://www.tonybarry.net/tonybarry/Software.html StellLXTSRB]''' is a telescope server for Mac OS X, developed by Tony Barry. It has been used successfully with a '''Meade ETX-80''' and an '''LX-90'''. According to its author, it will possibly work with any LX-emulating telescope.

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 ===Alternatively: downloading precompiled MS Windows binaries===
-I have noticed that MS Windows users often prefer downloading precompiled binaries instead of building by themselves. Therefore I provide Windows binaries:
+See the [[Download#Telescope_Servers|Download]] page for links to pre-built windows binaries.
-−
- [http://members.aon.at/johannes_gajdosik/TelescopeServerLx200.exe.gz TelescopeServerLx200.exe.gz]
- [http://members.aon.at/johannes_gajdosik/TelescopeServerNexStar.exe.gz TelescopeServerNexStar.exe.gz]
- [http://members.aon.at/johannes_gajdosik/TelescopeServerDummy.exe.gz TelescopeServerDummy.exe.gz]
-−
-Some people have problems with their browsers: the browser silently unpacks the gziped file. If you suffer from such a problem, just rename the downloaded file to TelescopeServerLx200.exe (or similar).
 ==Usage==