Stellarium

Stellarium 0.12.4 No ASCOM Support

Asked by Steven Whetzel

When is Stellarium 0.12.4 slated to support ASCOM telescope control?
Likewise is there any interest is supporting StarSense?

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Alexander Wolf (alexwolf) said : 		#1

ASCOM support slated in Device Control plugin (next major version of Telescope Control Plugin).

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Bogdan Marinov (daggerstab) said : 		#2

If you need to use ASCOM drivers with Stellarium, you can use StellariumScope:
http://www.welshdragoncomputing.ca/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=31&Itemid=39

As pointed out by Alexander Wolf, native Stellarium support is slated for the next major version of the Telescope Control plug-in. The problem is that the current developer of the plub-in (me) has quite limited time and resources, so it's impossible to point out an estimated date of release. (In fact, at the moment I can't even build the latest development version of Stellarium due to problems with the development platform.)

As for supporting Celestron StarSense, I don't intend to add any specific device support that goes beyond providing implementation of standardized interfaces for a number of reasons. If ASCOM decide to modify their standard to accommodate it, I may think about it.

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