nexstarctl

We have hosted the application nexstarctl in order to run this application in our online workstations with Wine or directly.

Quick description about nexstarctl:

This module implements the serial commands supported by the Celestron
NexStar hand control (HC) and SkyWatcher/Orion SynScan HC. This applies
to the Celestron: NexStar GPS, NexStar GPS-SA, NexStar iSeries, NexStar
SE Series, NexStar GT, CPC, SLT, Advanced-VX, Advanced-GT, CGE, CGEM etc.
SkyWatcher: EQ5, HEQ5, EQ6 (Pro), AZ-EQ5 GT, AZ-EQ6 GT, EQ8 etc. and the
corresponding Orion mounts.

Communication to the hand control is 9600 bits/sec, no parity and one stop bit via the RS-232 port on the base of the hand control.

For extended example how to use this perl module look in to the distribution folder for nexstarctl.pl. This program is a complete console tool to control NexStar telesctopes based on NexStarCtl module.

To control network based telescopes nexbridge must be used on the remote site.
https: //sourceforge.net/projects/nexbridge/

Features:

• Can control network exported mounts with nexbridge
• nexstarctl - console tool to illustrate how to use the library and control your telescope
• All published NexStar commands are supported
• Full SkyWatcher / Orion support (HC firmware > X.38.6)
• Record / Play PEC data
• Download / uplod PEC data from/to the mount
• Set / Get mount backlash settings
• Set / Get autoguide rate
• Some AUX commands are supported since v.0.10
• Both Equatorial and Alt/Az mounts are supported
• Coordinates can be converted to the current epoch
• Works with Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Solaris and Windows

Audience: Science/Research, Developers.

Programming Language: Perl.

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