The ASCOM Initiative provides an extensive set of tools, libraries, templates, samples, and documentation to help developers get started. The focus is on C# and Python, both are …

This page lists items that the ASCOM Initiative has made available for download. The ASCOM Platform is required for most of the drivers and other components. It contains a set of common …

This ASCOM driver allows the use of a variety of commercial and homebrew passive encoder-based digital setting circles systems with any Windows software that supports the ASCOM …

This section contains downloadable documentation for ASCOM, both Alpaca and COM, as well as conceptual documents that cover both. These documents cover ASCOM theory, ASCOM …

1. What are ASCOM, Alpaca, and ASCOM COM? ASCOM is the general name for enabling technology based on universal connectivity between astronomy apps/programs and the …

ASCOM (both COM and Alpaca) is a many-to-many universal interfacing system with no dependence on any software or central server. Alpaca is cross-platform, COM is Windows-only.

The following script, written in the JScript language, shows how simple it is to control a telescope using ASCOM/COM on Windows. We use the Telescope Simulator, part of the ASCOM Platform.

The package provides all of the ASCOM Standard universal interfaces to astronomical devices using the Alpaca network protocol. As an application developer, your usage of the various …

Drivers for video cameras as well as a C# client reference implementation for using video via ACSCOM and some anecdotal info on the 2 year development of this new ASCOM Standard …

This tool performs a comprehensive set of tests on a driver to determine its conformance with the relevant ASCOM interface standard. It also tests some aspects of driver behavior against the …