This requires re-writing some of it, and I've been stopped in mid-rewrite several times now.
For me, it's also really hard to test - I don't have a telescope and using simulators is a bit taxing for my computer (netbook + Windows 7 + Stellarium = more choppy than a cheesy martial arts movie).Īnother part of the explanation for the delay is that the code infrastructure was originally made only for one telescope control protocol - Stellarium's - and the target is to support three - Stellarium's, ASCOM and INDI.
Stellarium problems drivers#
There's a way to interface COM objects like ASCOM drivers with Qt, but it's unpleasant and time-consuming. Stellarium is multi-platform and the framework on which it's based (Qt + MinGW on Windows) does not use COM. And the time I could afford to spend on Stellarium has varied vastly over the last few years.Īs for ASCOM itself, the problem is that it is based on a Microsoft technology - COM - that is available only on Windows. Then I came and made a GUI for the telescope control. Telescope control was added later by another person. The original author was into 3D graphics and wanted to make a realistic representation of the sky. People come and go, and they have different fields of expertise or foci of interest, and there are people who contribute code based on purposes they want to use Stellarium for. I wonder just how difficult it is to put ASCOM connectivity into Stellarium, they are obviously very talented programmers but can not under why they build a beautiful planetarium software but then only put a very limited amount of telescope control.įirst: Stellarium being a FOSS project driven by volunteers, "they" are not a monolith. (I would upload a test build with the new telescope control plug-in, but it would take me an hour to upload a 50 MB installer, and connection instability pretty much guarantees that it won't finish it in that time.)
Stellarium problems update#
Status update on the ASCOM code: I have some basic functionality, but my involvement with Stellarium is hampered by lack of free time, not-powerful-enough computer and really slow Internet. When I have time for Stellarium, it's spent writing code or answering users (like here), not documentation. I know because it's still collecting dust in my branch.Īnd I'm really sorry about the state of the Wiki article. When was that and what did he said exactly? No ASCOM code has been released with 0.12.0. I have looked for more details but can not find any, even the Stellarium Wiki is quite a few months out of date. I have been given a one line reply by Alexander Wolf of Stellarium that the new interface written by Bogdan Marinov in Stellarium 12 can now work with ASCOM devices without needing StellariumScope.
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