ScopeDome Dome Driver is ASCOM compliant software dedicated to USB ScopeDome
Card driver of the astronomical dome, cooperating with the most popular models of
telescopes and the sky atlases.
It allows you to lead a fully automated observing sessions. In addition, the driver lets
you to control power supply up to four devices at an observatory, such as telescope,
CCD camera, ventilation and lighting. It also works with weather stations able to
record current meteorological data on your computer.
Basic features:
- the telescope and the dome’s movement synchronization
- closing and opening the shutter
- rotating the dome and setting it to any direction
- GoTo function to an arbitrary chosen azimuth
- stopping the dome at any time
- semi-automatic synchronization of the dome with the sky’s movement for the
visual observations
- defining the accuracy of the tracking telescope position
- setting a time period when the position of the telescope will be updated
- setting the dome in Home position
- setting the dome in any specified Park position
- measuring and displaying the dome’s azimuth
- shutter position indicator
- displaying the telescope’s position
- OnTop - keeping the program’s window over other applications’ windows
- three possible sizes of the program’s interface
- graphical information about the dome’s state
- Radar Dome - showing the setup of the dome in relation to the North Pole, the
telescope's position, wind direction and amount of the rolled cable which controlls the
shutter
- displaying basic information about the the weather and cloud cover
- setting the dome in the best position in relation to the wind direction
- closing the shutter in the event of a bad weather (Weather Protect Shutter)
- introducing names to controlled devices
- turning on and off power supply for any device connected to the driver card
- turning on the observatory using a single button
- the dome’s Home position and the opening and closing the shutter sensors
- the possibility of an independent manual control of the dome motion using the
remote control or buttons on the card
- the ability to remotely managment of the dome via Internet through the remote
console software type
- errors in the shutter’s work support
- errors in the dome’s rotation support
- log file from the program’s worktime
- saving to the file current status of the dome
- test mode of the program - the dome’s simulator (we recommend it to the users
who can write writing scripts in VBS, f. e. under ACP).
The program is distributed underGNUlicence.
It allows use, reproduction, and changing the
source code. Required documentation and source code is attached to the program.
