A chimera plugin for ASCOM telescope control standard.
Install chimera on your computer, and then, this package. Edit the configuration like the example below matching the ascom_id
of your device to the id on the ASCOM manager. It current implements telescope (type: ASCOMTelescope
), focuser (type: ASCOMFocuser
), camera (type: ASCOMCamera
) and filter wheel camera (type: ASCOMFilterWheel
).
Besides chimera, chimera-ascom
depends of win32com
and pywintypes
Python modules. It runs only on Windows operating systems.
pip install -U git+https://github.com/astroufsc/chimera-ascom.git
- ASCOM Simulator
telescope:
name: tel_sim
type: ASCOMTelescope
ascom_id: ASCOM.Simulator.Telescope
focuser:
name: foc_sim
type: ASCOMFocuser
ascom_id: FocusSim.Focuser
camera:
name: cam_sim
type: ASCOMCamera
ascom_id: ASCOM.Simulator.Camera
filterwheel:
name: fwheel_sim
type: ASCOMFilterWheel
ascom_id: ASCOM.Simulator.FilterWheel
- ASA DDM160 with M2 focuser
telescope:
name: ASA_DDM160
type: ASCOMTelescope
ascom_id: AstrooptikServer.Telescope
focuser:
name: ASA_focuser
type: ASCOMFocuser
ascom_id: ACCServer.Focuser
- Apogee Alta U-16M camera with FW50-9R filter wheel
camera:
name: apogee
type: ASCOMCamera
ascom_id: ASCOM.Apogee.Camera
filterwheel:
name: apogee
type: ASCOMFilterWheel
ascom_id: ASCOM.Apogee.FilterWheel
filters: F1 F2 F3 F4 F5 F6 F7 F8 F9
This plugin was tested on:
- Astrosysteme Austria Telescope model ASA DDM160 with M2 focuser.
- Apogee Alta U-16M camera with FW50-9R filter wheel
For more information, contact us on chimera's discussion list: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/chimera-discuss
Bug reports and patches are welcome and can be sent over our GitHub page: https://github.com/astroufsc/chimera-ascom/