Then I came and made a GUI for the telescope control. Telescope control was added later by another person. The original author was into 3D graphics and wanted to make a realistic representation of the sky. People come and go, and they have different fields of expertise or foci of interest, and there are people who contribute code based on purposes they want to use Stellarium for. I wonder just how difficult it is to put ASCOM connectivity into Stellarium, they are obviously very talented programmers but can not under why they build a beautiful planetarium software but then only put a very limited amount of telescope control.įirst: Stellarium being a FOSS project driven by volunteers, "they" are not a monolith. (I would upload a test build with the new telescope control plug-in, but it would take me an hour to upload a 50 MB installer, and connection instability pretty much guarantees that it won't finish it in that time.) Status update on the ASCOM code: I have some basic functionality, but my involvement with Stellarium is hampered by lack of free time, not-powerful-enough computer and really slow Internet. When I have time for Stellarium, it's spent writing code or answering users (like here), not documentation. I know because it's still collecting dust in my branch.Īnd I'm really sorry about the state of the Wiki article. When was that and what did he said exactly? No ASCOM code has been released with 0.12.0. I have looked for more details but can not find any, even the Stellarium Wiki is quite a few months out of date. I have been given a one line reply by Alexander Wolf of Stellarium that the new interface written by Bogdan Marinov in Stellarium 12 can now work with ASCOM devices without needing StellariumScope.
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