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Telescopes

The Telescopes dialog box will allow you to control your instrument with WinStars.

ASCOM

The ASCOM protocol is only compatible with Windows. To use it with WinStars, you must first download and install the ASCOM Platform file available at https://ascom-standards.org.

Once the ASCOM platform has been installed, check the ASCOM option and click on the Configuration… button.

The ASCOM general configuration box should appear…

By clicking on Properties…, a second box appears with more settings.

This is where you must set up the model of the instrument you want to use with WinStars. Sometimes it is necessary to install an additional driver (https://ascom-standards.org/Downloads/ScopeDrivers.htm).

Please refer to the ASCOM project FAQ: https://ascom-standards.org/FAQs/Index.htm.

Indi

The INDI protocol is compatible with Linux. It works with an indiserver server and instrument drivers installed on your machine; the platform, the drivers and the documentation are on indilib.org. The standard indiserver listening port is 7624.

Once the server and the telescope driver are running, check the INDI option in the Telescopes dialog box and connect to the server: [TO BE COMPLETED — exact wording of the fields and of the device list in the current version]. The same pointing and tracking operations as with ASCOM then apply: see the “Using it” section below.

INDI is not offered on Windows (where ASCOM is used), nor on the abandoned platforms macOS and iOS.

Using it

Once your telescope is set up in ASCOM, click on the Enable Connection… button. From this point on, the locking an object will point your instrument to that object. The tracking will be done automatically. To stop the tracking, press the ESC key on the keyboard.