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Stellarium program for mac os#
Stellarium program code#
Stellarium program license#

When building your own telescope server you can link with any library you want: ASCOM, INDI, any proprietary library, whatever.

Stellarium program license#

There are no license problems: An external telescope server can, but does not need to be GPL.

Stellarium program code#

No knowledge about Stellarium's source code is required.

Any developer can easily provide an own telescope server for his own telescope, either by using the Stellarium telescope library (recommended) or without it.

TCP is available on any platform, so for Stellarium there are little or no portability problems.

Instead the Stellarium source code stays maintainable.

The Stellarium source code does not get bloated by incorporation of dozens of telescope control mechanisms and protocols.

This architecture has the following advantages: For the TCP communication there is an LGPL library which should make the development of telescope servers easy. Stellarium and the telescope server communicate with each other over TCP/IP. According to its author, it will possibly work with any LX-emulating telescope.Īctual communication with the telescope is not done by Stellarium itself, but by an external program which is called telescope server. It has been used successfully with a Meade ETX-80 and an LX-90.

Stellarium program for mac os#

StellLXTSRB is a telescope server for Mac OS X, developed by Tony Barry.

Extends capabilities to include both "Slew" and "Sync" functions, and automated installation and setup (no need to edit configuration files).

StellariumScope is a program for MS Windows allowing Stellarium to control a variety of telescopes using the ASCOM drivers.

Programs that cannot be supported by us, because we do not have the source code:

TelescopeServerRTS2(.exe): can be used to control through XML-RPC any telescopes supported by the RTS2 project.

These don't work in the same way as the rest, so for instructions, refer to their README file.

Wrappers for the Remote Telescope System protocol, contributed by Petr Kubanek.

TelescopeServerNexStar(.exe): used for controlling Celestron NexStar telescopes, contributed by Michael Heinz.

TelescopeServerLx200(.exe): used for controlling Meade LX200 or AutoStar telescopes, G11 or compatible.TelescopeServerDummy(.exe): can be used for testing and as a starting point for developing new telescope servers, no telescope is required.If you want to use telescope control, but can't run versions 0.10.1 and later, you can use version 0.9.1.Īlthough 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: Note: this feature was not included in version 0.10.0. Please read the explanation on the Telescope Control page first. Since version 0.10.3, Stellarium comes with the Telescope Control plug-in, which provides an easier way to use Stellarium to guide a telescope. This page describes the telescope control feature that is present in Stellarium since version 0.8.1. 1.4 Alternatively: downloading precompiled MS Windows binaries.